A really magic Harry Potter wand for Lumos and Reveal Your Secrets charms

Step 5 Prepare your batteries

We are going to be sticking the wire on the end of the battery using tape to hold it in place. As this is a rather rough and ready (although perfectly ok) way of attaching a wire to a battery, it is a good idea to insulate the rest of the battery to make sure that the wire doesn't slip and short across to the metal casing of the battery.

I cut a hole in a piece of sticky tape using a hold punch (punch sticky side up) which makes a hole in the tape that is a perfect fit for the battery terminal.

Comments

[tristanzdaddy]

My son and I have made 4 of these wands and to cut costs we have bought 5 packs of 1.5V LR44 button batteries from the dollar store and hot glued them together... works great! Thank you for this instructable. We've had a blast working on these together.

[KaptinScarlet]

great idea, well done. have you got any photos of the finished wands??

[tristanzdaddy]

This is my son's favorite so far. We just used a white led instead of the uv. The designs are painted with phosphorescent paint so it glows in the dark for him.

[KaptinScarlet]

that's cool. glad you liked the instructable. Would yo mind if I posted this picture up on (that's my website?

[tristanzdaddy]

Absolutely.