DIY Harry Potter Wand

An event that my school loves to organize are Dress Up days. Character day is coming up and so I thought i'd be Hermione from Harry Potter! I got my whole outfit together and that's when I realized that I didn't have a wand to go with it... 

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Materials Needed: 

• A Pencil
• Piece of Paper
• Masking tape
• Scissors
• Hot Glue Gun
• Brown Paint
• Paintbrush

Step One:

Place your pencil on one of the corners of the paper like the picture below, and roll until it covers the whole pencil, leaving a little bit unwrapped at the end. Keep the paper in place with masking tape, then cut off the excess paper, leaving about 1 1/2 inch (4cm) from the eraser of the top of the pencil. 

Step Two:

Fill in the hole with hot glue and leave it out to dry and harden. 

Step Three:

Once the glue has hardened, use the hot glue gun to create squiggles on the top half of the pencil. These are meant to look like vines. 

Step Four:
To finish up, use some brown paint to go over the entire wand, making sure you get right in between the vines.

 You now have a Harry Potter Wand that doubles as a pencil!

This was the rest of my outfit. I also had on black leggings with black and white Keds. 

I hope you all enjoyed this super simple and super easy DIY! 

If you try this DIY at home or have any questions, concerns or requests, feel free to put them in the comments below. 

                      With Love,

                                                          Handy Dandy Xam <3