How To Make A Ceramic Leaf Bowl

Roll out the clay to approximately inch thickness.

How to make a ceramic leaf bowl. If you are wanting to customize this diy leaf bowl there are a few things you could do. You ll be building your leaf bowl on the outside of your real bowl. To create your own decorative diy leaf bowl all you will need is 1 balloon your choice of leaves a bowl to hold your balloon in place paint brush or foam brush mod podge matte finish scissors. Using a small knife trim away excess clay.

Repeat with various leaves overlapping the leaves as you go. Place your leaf on the glue then mod podge over it again. Using the rolling pin press the leaf into the clay. Find a bowl the right size for your leaves i used a deep round soup bowl for this one and an egg cup for the project you can see at the end of the article.

Using your brush brush some mod podge on the saran wrap about the shape of your first leaf. As you layer and press the leaves onto each other excess mod podge will squeeze out. Paint mod podge onto a leaf and press the leaf onto the bowl. This diy leaf bowl was very simple to make and didn t take much time at all.

This is a diy craft for at home decoration. Lay the leaf vein side down on top of the rolled clay. Air dry clay is very sticky and doesn t come up easily. Cover your bowl with a layer of cling film and then paste all over the cling film with a layer of slightly watered down pva glue also known as school glue or white glue.

I am sure that for centuries people interested in ceramics have thought about pressing leaves into clay. Use small sharp scissors to trim the leaf edge pattern. A cabbage plant in my garden motivated me to do the. Use your hands and the rolling pin to gently flatten the leaf against the clay.

Use caution so that the leaf does not shift. Doing this now will make it easier when it s time to transfer your clay leaf to a bowl. Use a large leaf with heavy veining. I demonstrate the first step in forming a ceramic bowl using slab method.

If your leaves have a softer colored underside be sure to place the colorful side down facing the bowl. The longest part was waiting for the mod podge to dry.