DIY Fairy Wand

Here is a little craft Em and I did last week. Well I did most of the work, but it was fun to do and turned out kinda cute...kinda bulky, but good for little toddler hands. Basically we have a lot of crafting crap leftovers and I wanted an excuse to use it/get rid of it. :)

1. We took a paper towel roll, put some dried rice in it so it makes a rattly sound.
2. Put some construction paper on the end and fastened it with a rubber band.

3. Quadruple fastened.

 4.Took some streamer and mod podged it to the roll over the construction paper and rubber bands. I was going to use Elmers but the nozzle was broken so I ended up tossing it. So Mod Podge it was.

5. Had Em paste some squares cut from tissue wrapping paper onto the roll using  a glue stick. 

6. Gluing. 

7. Gluing. 

 8. Rambo Break.

9. Then I had her add her own touch with some markers. Notice how she is using a Sharpie. I realized during this project my kid really needs her own markers so after this project I bought her some kid appropriate markers. 

10. Writing. 

11. More Writing. 

12. Took a break from writing on our wand to practice our letters. :)

 13. Then I Mod Podged the tissue paper down.

14. I made a little tissue pom-pm and tied some ribbon and tulle  to the wand to give it some magic flair. 

And here is our finished result...

Pardon the blurry pics of em playing. I had a REALLY hard time getting her to stand still long enough for a picture with the wand. There you have it!

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