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!