How To Make A Ceramic Leaf Bowl

Using a small knife trim away excess clay.

How to make a ceramic leaf bowl.

Use a bowl inside of a balloon for your base this will allow you to make a bigger leaf bowl. Use small sharp scissors to trim the leaf edge pattern. Pull up the clay and leaf before moving to step 3 and then lay them down again on your work surface. This diy leaf bowl was very simple to make and didn t take much time at all.

Air dry clay is very sticky and doesn t come up easily. If your leaves have a softer colored underside be sure to place the colorful side down facing the bowl. I demonstrate the first step in forming a ceramic bowl using slab method. Paint mod podge onto a leaf and press the leaf onto the bowl.

I am sure that for centuries people interested in ceramics have thought about pressing leaves into clay. Doing this now will make it easier when it s time to transfer your clay leaf to a bowl. If you are wanting to customize this diy leaf bowl there are a few things you could do. This is a diy craft for at home decoration.

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. Place your leaf on the glue then mod podge over it again. Using your brush brush some mod podge on the saran wrap about the shape of your first leaf. Use different size balloon.

Using the rolling pin press the leaf into the clay. Lay the leaf vein side down on top of the rolled clay. Use caution so that the leaf does not shift. A cabbage plant in my garden motivated me to do the.

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. Roll out the clay to approximately inch thickness. You ll be building your leaf bowl on the outside of your real bowl. Use a large leaf with heavy veining.

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. Repeat with various leaves overlapping the leaves as you go.