Harry Potter Wand Making

This month in Harry Potter Book Club, we made wands!

The basis of this craft came from Instructables and is made using paper and hot glue. It went over very well with our tween age group, although we did have some younger participants who needed a bit more help. Honestly, I was a little hesitant to pull out the hot glue gun like this for a program but it went fine.

QUIZ 
To personalize the experience, I designed a quiz to determine what wood your wand would be carved
from and what core would be inside. 

Click here for the Quiz PDF

The 12 question quiz is broken up into 2 parts. The top part will determine the wood and the bottom half will determine the core.

For the wood we used different color tissue paper.

For the core's, we gathered strips of ribbon that were at the bottom of our ribbon box and of course for the Phoenix tail feather, we HAD to use warm-colored feathers!

CONSTRUCTION
The steps from Instructables are very straightforward.

Our wands were rolled diagonally with a sheet of paper and tapered them so one end came to a point,
as per instructions.

We did deviate a bit in how we made our wands sturdy. This was by adding tissue paper (AKA our wood) into the center (and also the core).

Once wands were filled, we plugged the ends with dabs of hot glue and added surface details.

DECORATION

All that was left to do was decorate, which we used paint and glitter to do.

I wasn't able to snag too many pictures of the process, but here are a couple completed wands...

As a Librarian, I have a love/ hate relationship with glitter and if I were to do this program again, I might leave the demon litter in the craft cabinet. Cleaning it up was a nightmare.

But overall, this was so much fun! Good luck in your wand making. Hope you can use the quiz.