A Little Twist ~
Wandmaking for Wee Witches

I received a sweet email from someone asking about using a wooden spoon as a wand. While some may disagree with me, I think it's a great idea! In fact, it has inspired me to have a wand making session with the littlest Knickertwist. He already has a lovely willow wand made by Mister K but I figured that one he made himself would hold special meaning for him.

My goal in doing this with the Little K was not to create a perfect, traditional wand, but to get him thinking about magick making, and expose him to the empowerment that comes along with it. I wouldn't worry too much about making things perfect, in fact, I say go crazy! Let your kiddo make a wand from just about anything. Here are a few ideas for a base for your wee witchy wands:

- chopsticks
- doweling
- wooden spoons
- twigs/sticks
- old paint brushes
- knitting needles

Here's the plan...

1. Talk about ways he might want to use a wand such as making wishes, getting rid of monsters, general magick making or some other purpose he can think of himself. Maybe we can pick one of these things and make a special wand just for that.

D chooses to make a wand suitable for getting rid of those pesky monsters.

2. Next, we'll make a list of things that would make a wand especially good for the job we have picked for it. What colours, decorations or symbols would be best?

Green and orange are apparently choice colours when dealing with monsters. He also tells me that stars would be a good thing to put on his wand.

3. Time to get messy! Let's gather our materials and create a special magickal tool.

The only problem here was that the paint had to dry before putting other decorations on. Not a big deal, go and play for 30 minutes, watch a cartoon, then back to work.

4. After it's decorated there's one more thing we'll need to do. Let the wand have a rest. We could put it on our alter to let the gods/goddess' see our hard work or we can put it on the window sill and let the moon light wash it and make it strong. I wonder what would be best for his special wand?

A few more finishing touches and we'll place the wands under the full moon for the night! Those monsters won't know what hit them!

D giving his wand a trial run.

Here are two of my finished wands.

"Faerie Spying Wand" Wire, ribbon, beads and watch parts transform this wooden spoon into a tool for finding faeries.

"Night Sky Wand" Buttons, beads, and bobs, as well as wool, ribbon, paint and glue combine to make a wishing wand.