Make an awesome Harry Potter wand from a sheet of paper and glue gun glue

Step 4: Trim the wand

Wait about 20 to 30 minutes for the wand to dry. As the PVA (white glue / Elmer's) glue hardens, it should become much stiffer. When dry Trim a little bit off both ends of the wand to make the ends straight.

If you want to make a very stiff wand, roll another piece of paper and glue tighter than the first one and poke it down the inside of the first one after coating it in a bit of white glue.

I avoided using a chopstick for this because I didn't want the wand to become dangerous. I would rather the wand broke than someone got their eye poked out with it!

Comments

[WhyHello]

I used a few dabs of nail polish for the double stick tape part and only on the very in the corner of the last 3rd bit of paper. So far so good :)

[瑩許]

would it help the wand to be stiffer if you roll it over a straw? cause i really hate using Elmer's Glue...

[Peep1317]

I'm pretty sure Kramer is the only person on Earth that would gauge out their eye with a chop stick. Haha  :P

[acajjou]

A glue stick worked well for me - both for the "double stick tape" and the glue parts.

[legon22]

you can also use tape doughnuts intead of double sided sticky tape in step 1

[KaptinScarlet]

May be, but probably better to try it with white glue all the way, the double sided tape was just to make it easy to apply the white glue with the wand partially rolled up. With a bit of care and patience the double sides tape isn't needed at all