How to make Harry Potter Wands

It is Harry Potter day on Wednesday 31st July and the daughter and I decided to make some wands for the display in my School Library (Learning Commons).

What you will need:

• Sandpaper
• Old Chop sticks or twigs from the garden. Make sure that they are nice and dry.
• Glue Gun
• Glue
• Primer
• Paint (acrylic)

Step 1:

Make sure that your chop sticks are nice and clean, just run some sandpaper over them to take off any rough edges (or left over food).

Step 2:

Using the glue gun, start to built up the shape of your wand. Once you have applied the glue, dunk it into a tumbler of cold water to set the glue and then move onto the next wand.

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Step 3:

One the wands are dry again, prime them with a base colour, we chose black.

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Step 4:

Once the prime colour is set, use acrylic to dry brush your colours onto the wands. We used some acrylics that we got from the cheap $2 shop.

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Step 5:

If you want, you can coat your wands in clear lacquer to protect the paint.

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Enjoy! 

I'm just wild about Harry

I must admit that whilst I have really enjoyed reading and watching Harry Potter, in past years I have grown tired of it .... Stumbling across this post "Mad about Harry Potter" via Craft Gossip this morning, reminded me how much fun some of those earlier Harry Movie moments were and it makes me want to wish that I had the energy to hold one of those large fancy dress parties we used to do so well ....

HELLO my name is Heather via Craft Gossip

I have been wanting to read the complete set of books consecutively, and now I have a complete set of Harry books sitting on my bookshelf. Another book I am quite enjoying is Trudi Canavan's latest, "The Magician's Apprentice". I loved her first set "The Magician's Guild" it had me hooked. By the time I got to the last book in the series, I was revved up and I read it in 2 days (nothing else got done!). I have been busy with school to get as hooked as I did with TMG, but TMA is still very very good.