Making the Hermione (or any other) Wand

I wanted to quickly show you how I made a replica of the Hermione Wand.

This is how the wand is supposed to look like:

And this is the replica that I made.

It is not quite as straight and quite a bit darker (I did not feel like repainting it), but my daughter Would Not Care. She will be absolutely thrilled with it, I'm sure.

It did not really take that long to make, so I thought I'll share it with you

Start by shaving down a stick. My husband picked up a couple of straight-ish sticks on one of his walks. He spent a few minutes shaving off the bark and sanding the it smooth.

I used a pencil to draw a rough outline of the pattern of the vine and then used hot glue to create the vines of the wand. 

Hot glue was certainly not an original idea of mine, but it was something suggested to me by my friend, and when I did a quick search online, it seems as though others have been using it for the same purpose.

Piping hot glue is very much like piping icing, and thus, it is best to practice a little on a piece of scrap paper. The thing about the Hermione wand is that since it is vines and leaves, so the piping doesn't have to be perfect:

The more imperfect the application of the hot glue, the more organic my vine looked.

After adding the vines, I went back and added leaves and the stems. In the photo above, you'll notice that I did flowers instead of leaves. This was because it is the second wand that I made and it's for my little daughter who also wanted a wand, but not exactly the same as the Hermione wand.

After the hot glue has dried, which doesn't take very long, I carefully removed all the little strings that hotglue leaves behind. They using some brown acrylic paint, I painted over wood and glue. Once dried, I went back and painted the vines a slightly lighter colour to make it pop, but I think I wouldn't even have had to do that.

So, these are the two wands I made. I did give them both a light sheen of clear gloss to protect the paint.

I really did not take me very long to make these wands, and as long as you are not planning to make very precise patterns, this is an excellent way to make a wand with protruding designs.