Small broomstick cracked#

I didn’t expect it to give such different results, but you can see what happened in the picture below.

I used three pieces of flat kraft paper and three pieces of end-of-the-roll curled up kraft paper. I kind of goofed a bit when I was making these. We could be done here, but who doesn’t love adding fancy labels to things?! (We’ll get to that in a moment!) Keep on rolling until the paper is entirely rolled up. The double sided tape will hold it all together as you go. Start rolling the paper around the glow stick. Position the glow stick so the plastic clip thing is just below the tape. The little plastic pieces will help to make sure the paper can’t slide off the stick.īe careful though – These thin little glow sticks snap really easily.Īdd a long strip of double sided tape to the edge of the paper. Since the glow sticks are the bracelet ones, they come with the little plastic things that go on the ends to keep them together.

I felt like I was making little hula skirts. I find it so much easier and quicker! But no worries if you don’t have one handy – scissors will work too.Ĭut out thin strips of paper up to your pencil line to give it the broom effect. I’m a huge fan of using exacto knives and rulers to cut things. Anything within an inch or so of those dimensions will work.ĭraw a light line to use as a guide for your cut marks.

But I’ll talk more about that in a minute.Ĭut a piece of kraft paper to be approximately 7.5″ x 5″. You can see the paper wants to roll up in the photo below, which actually turned out to give the brooms tons of character. The twine was from Michael’s and the kraft paper is the end of a roll that I’ve been working on for years. I got these bracelet ones at the dollar store. Glow sticks are incredibly cheap these days. Twenty would drive you a little crazy, I think? They are easy, but a little tedious. They are fantastic if you don’t have to make a ton of them. These glow stick broomsticks are such a great little craft/favour/activity/whatever-you-want-to-do-with-them for this time of year. When I was done making these broomsticks, let me tell you, Leah and Kate had a rainbow of glowing broomsticks on their night table that evening that would make Harry Potter proud! And the next day, their Barbies had several new broomsticks arranged nicely around their dollhouse. So I guess it’s not too surprising that my girls get pretty excited about glow sticks too.

Small broomstick cracked#

Except when they cracked when I was trying to make these brooms. I’ll never get tired of hearing the first little crack of the glass inside of them. Does anyone else remember feeling that way the first time you held a glow stick? It was the coolest thing EVER. It seriously felt like I was holding a magic wand. We could probably get back there blindfolded if we had to. Maybe the glow sticks back then were brighter? Or we just didn’t care. Now that I think about it, I don’t see how those glow sticks were possibly going to be enough light to help us. It was a bit of a hike to get out there – lots of steps, rocks, hills, even a small bridge that we had to go over. (Yep, we were super sophisticated that way…) All the kids had these thick, neon yellow, super bright glow sticks to help light our way to the back of the yard in the dark. My parents were having a bonfire in their backyard – the type of bonfire that’s about the size of a minivan – which was pretty normal for us in rural Ontario. The first time I saw a glow stick, I was maybe 11 or 12 years old.