Ollivander's

When the Brownies arrived at Pack Holiday, Ollivander had set up his wand shop, ready to find the perfect wand for each Brownie.

The Summer before the Pack Holiday, we spent several hours making 20 or so unique wands. We used this tutorial to make them:

http://www.pinterest.com/pin/2322237278534682/



We started with cheap chop-sticks and built each one up with glue from the glue-gun. We then painted them in a variety of designs.

We used citadel paints for the shiny and interesting colours and ordinary brown paint and wood stain for the wooden looking ones. 

We also added in beads and marbles to make some more interesting.

 It was a lot of fun making them -which was why we made more than we actually needed for pack holiday. This also meant the Brownies had plenty of choice when selecting a wand and no-one was left with the 'last one'.
If you were taking guides or rangers on holiday, you might consider letting them make their own wands. This would have been too challenging for our Brownies and we didn't want to risk them getting burns from the glue-gun. 

We measured each wand and gave them a label describing the wand's core, wood and length. We copied these from the actual wands described in the Harry Potter books.