An update to this post--
I went to an arts and crafts type store and found water based fluorescent paints. I bought white, pink, and yellow. The results for the pink are below.
Not bad, huh??? I used Min Wax waterbased polyacrylic on the shaft to seal it. The I painted on the white base coat for the crown-the bottles of paint are too small to have enough to dip. The next day I painted on the hot pink. After a day I added an overcoat of Min Wax. The following day a second coat. Everything is waterbased, so as noted earlier by others, all the work can be done in the house. I have been using waterbased cresting paints for several years.
I found the RGB (red, green, blue) codes for hot pink and fluorescent yellow. I hope to find a paint store that can match the colors in an acrylic paint.