| |  | Recycled paper wands This project is great for encouraging imaginative play. (Wizard’s duel, anyone?) You’ll need, at minimum, paper (I used a brown paper grocery bag), some sort of adhesive (tape, glue, or both), and something for coloring and embellishments (paint, markers, chalk, or crayons). I made two wands—one using hot glue, and one using masking tape. I will talk about both methods below! | | Here is what you will need for this project. | | | | First cut or tear a long, thin strip of paper and twist it into a long, twiglike shape. If you have a chopstick, pencil, dowel rod, or other stiff item you don’t mind sacrificing, you can stick it inside your paper twist for stability, but this is optional. Tape or glue your twist at the base to keep it closed. | | | | | | Time to make your wand fancy! If you have hot glue, carefully draw spirals, squiggles, runes, etc along your wand’s body and wait for it to dry. If you don’t have hot glue, or are working with a younger child and hot glue would not be safe… use masking tape to create your embellishments instead. | | | | | | This second wand does not have a pencil core, so I wrapped it completely in tape for extra stability. Using the same method you used to create your wand, twist small pieces of tape into long, thin strips. Lay them on the body of the wand to create your spirals, squiggles and runes. You might need to lay extra pieces of tape on the ends to help the twists adhere. | | | | | | | | No matter which method you use, once you have created the body of your wand, use your markers, paint, or chalk to add color. I painted my first wand gold, let it dry, added a layer of brown, and then gently rubbed the brown off the hot glue runes, making it look like they were aged, natural gold. (If you don’t have paint, rubbing in multiple layers of chalk dust with paper towel or drawing designs on with sharpie would look amazing.) While the paint was still wet I added some glitter, and voila! If you try either of these projects, or if you have any questions about them, let us know via email, or by tagging us on Instagram (@mtlebanonlibrary) or Twitter (@mlplkids) with the hashtag #mlplmake. We’d love to see how they come out! | | | | | | www.mtlebanonlibrary.org Twitter: @mlplkids
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