How To Make A Ceramic Leaf Bowl

Using a small knife trim away excess clay.

How to make a ceramic leaf bowl.

Use a large leaf with heavy veining. Doing this now will make it easier when it s time to transfer your clay leaf to a bowl. Lay the leaf vein side down on top of the rolled clay. Using your brush brush some mod podge on the saran wrap about the shape of your first leaf.

Paint mod podge onto a leaf and press the leaf onto the bowl. Use caution so that the leaf does not shift. As you layer and press the leaves onto each other excess mod podge will squeeze out. This diy leaf bowl was very simple to make and didn t take much time at all.

Use different size balloon. I demonstrate the first step in forming a ceramic bowl using slab method. You ll be building your leaf bowl on the outside of your real bowl. Use a bowl inside of a balloon for your base this will allow you to make a bigger leaf bowl.

If you are wanting to customize this diy leaf bowl there are a few things you could do. I am sure that for centuries people interested in ceramics have thought about pressing leaves into clay. Air dry clay is very sticky and doesn t come up easily. 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.

This is a diy craft for at home decoration. Use your hands and the rolling pin to gently flatten the leaf against the clay. Repeat with various leaves overlapping the leaves as you go. 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.

Place your leaf on the glue then mod podge over it again. Roll out the clay to approximately inch thickness. The longest part was waiting for the mod podge to dry. Using the rolling pin press the leaf into the clay.

Use small sharp scissors to trim the leaf edge pattern. 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.