I recently made a lot of wizard wands for a birthday party and was pretty happy with how they turned out. I used the same basic plan as my previous wand: https://chuck-does-art.blogspot.com/2018/10/diy-wizard-wands.html but this time added the extra flare of a rhinestone at the tip and coated the 'vines' with gold to make them extra sparkly.
Materials:
-12 inch wooden dowels, 3/8 inch diameter
-Rhinestones (slightly smaller than 3/8 inch across)
-Lock-Tite adhesive
-Hot glue gun and lots of hot glue
-Acrylic paint: Black, Dark Chocolate (or other dark brown), Honey Brown (or other light brown), Gold
-Warm semi-gloss polyurethane
Step one: I used the lock-tite adhesive to glue the rhinestones to the end of the dowels.
Step two: I add hot glue: There are a couple different 'parts' that I add to the wand
1) Two full circles near the middle of the dowel to be the handle where you hold it with your fingers
2) A large blot of glue on the butt of the dowel (opposite the rhinestone) to help balance it, with a spiral of glue leading from there to the finger handle. The farther the finger handle is from the center, the more glue you will need to balance it.
3) A thin circle of glue over the edge of the rhinestone with a little spiral off of it to make sure the rhinestone can't pop off.
4) Test the weight by holding the wand at the finger handle; if it leans to one side or the other add more hot glue to the other side until it balances.
Step three: Paint
1) Paint the entire thing black
2) Heavy dry brush dark chocolate (dark brown)
3) Light dry brush honey brown (light brown)
4) Paint gold over all the hot glue areas; do this lightly so that some of the dark color below shows thru, which will give it an aged appearance.
Step Four: Once the paint fully dries, spray with polyurethane to seal the paint. If you don't use the polyurethane the paint comes off the hot glue very easily. I used a semi-gloss and liked the final effect. Make sure to do this outside!
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