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DIY Ancient Currency – A pre-party project or party activity for ...

Miss Party’s thinks every witch and wizard worth their weight in Galleons needs ‘real’ wizarding currency to purchase their Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Beans and Chocolate Frogs! Whether used for an actual party or just make-believe, making your very own ancient currency is a really fun and easy family project. Even young siblings can help out by making impressions in the coins after big brother or sister rolls them and cuts them out.

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Your witches and wizards will have a blast making a pile of Galleons, Sickles and Knuts of their very own design! Long after the party, the magical coins will morph into pirates’ booty, magical fairy coins, or any other fairy tale or ancient currency they can think of. Yes, you could buy some cheap, old, plastic, gold coins, but where’s the fun in that?!

If your guest list is fairly small, it would be manageable to do this project as a party activity, too. Early in the party schedule, take them to “Gringotts Bank” to make wizarding money. Set up your kitchen table as you would for a group cooking project. To keep it sane for you, announce ahead of time that all the money will be mixed together and divyed up so that later they can go shopping in “Diagon Alley”. That way, the kids won’t be worrying over not getting ‘their’ money back again. Of course, a velvet drawstring bag would be exceedingly helpful and authentic for the Wizards to keep their coins in (you can find velvet wine bottle bags in a variety of colors pretty easily around the holidays). At the end of the party, take all the coins the kids spent and place them in a bowl so they can pick out a few they know they made.

Oh, and just so you’re ‘in the know’ as much as they are, it is 17 Sickles to a Galleon, and 29 Knuts to a Sickle. ;)

Supplies needed: (Due to oven use, adult supervision is recommended.)

Polymer Oven-Bake Clay in Gold, Silver and Bronze ‘Tools’ to make impressions in the clay (Look around kitchen, office supplies and costume jewelry for whatever might work to make impressions or patterns in the clay. Miss Party used a vintage hat pin without any damage to the pin, a fork, play-doh tools, and a pastry cutter.)

1) Preheat oven to 275F, 130C.

2) Cut off about 1/4 inch of clay and roll into a marble-sized ball.

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