“There were shelves upon shelves of the most succulent-looking sweets imaginable. Creamy chunks of nougat, shimmering pink squares of coconut ice, fat, honey-coloured toffees; hundreds of different kinds of chocolate in neat rows; there was a large barrel of Every Flavour Beans, and another of Fizzing Whizzbees, the levitating sherbet balls that Ron had mentioned; along yet another wall were ‘Special Effects’ sweets: Drooble’s Best Blowing Gum (which filled a room with bluebell-coloured bubbles that refused to pop for days), the strange, splintery Toothflossing Stringmints, tiny black Pepper Imps (‘breathe fire for your friends!’), Ice Mice (‘hear your teeth chatter and squeak!’), peppermint creams shaped like toads (‘hop realistically in the stomach!’) , fragile sugar-spun quills and exploding bonbons."
Chocolate
Frogs
You
can't have a Honeydukes shop without having the iconic Chocolate
Frogs. It took me a few tries to find the perfect box template that
worked well as there are a few, but none seemed to have the right
colour or wouldn't fit right when put together. I chose the one below
for it's rich blue and yellow, and the fact that it actually fit
evenly when taped. This is the sample so final product would be
glued.
I
found a realistic chocolate frog mold on eBay, but would later find a
better priced one on Amazon for around five dollars. You can use any
chocolate. I used PC decadent bar. One brick filled the 8 molds and
costs roughly $3.50 for a bar. Once I took them out of the freezer
after five minutes, I popped them out of their molds, and stored them
in the fridge.
Thankfully,
the frogs actually fit in the template boxes so everything was
falling into place. Now, I created the chocolate frog trading cards
like in the films, but instead of using the witches and wizards on
those cards I used images of the actors playing their characters.
Originally
I had a template that would make two cards (and works well for my
card matching game on the activities post) but I resized and added an
additional two cards. These will fit into the boxes. After I cut out
24 worth of cards on card stock paper, I Googled 24 Harry Potter
actors to print out as contact sized images – you might have to cut
the edges off to fit underneath. All glued, laminated, and cut, the
chocolate frog cards are ready to be sealed within the boxes when the
time comes.
