I didn’t take any pictures of the process, because my hands were too messy at the time! This is what we did:
Materials Needed:
- household bowls (to build on and then remove)
- aluminum foil
- nonstick cooking spray
- newspaper-- both whole pieces for work surface and strips for papier-mache
- flour and water
- acrylic or tempera paint, brushes
- Mod Podge
Steps:
1. Choose a household bowl you like the size and shape of. Cover it as smoothly as possible in aluminum foil, then give the outside of the bowl a spray with nonstick cooking spray (this is so the hardened paper will pop off the bowl easily later).
2. Mix a slurry of flour and water in a bowl in about a 1:1 ratio. Rip some newspaper into long strips.
3. Invert bowls on large pieces of newspaper. Dip a strip of newspaper in the slurry, pull it up through your index and middle fingers to wipe off excess, then drape it across the bowl and smooth it down. Cover the bowl in slightly overlapping strips of newspaper like this all going the same direction until bowl is covered.
4. Turn the bowl 90 degrees and add another layer of newspaper strips the same way. Do more layers as desired (we did a total of 4-6 layers on each bowl). Let dry completely overnight.
5. Cut the overhanging part of the strips off the next day and pop the foil-covered bowls out of the now-hard paper. To smooth the rough paper edges, make more flour-water mixture and dip short strips of newspaper in it in order to lay them over just the edge of the bowl, overlapping all the way around. Let dry overnight.
6. Paint the bowls any way you like with acrylic or tempera paints. Let dry overnight.
7. Paint a coat of Mod Podge to give it a shiny, glazed finish. (We Mod-Podged the outside of the bowl one day, let it dry, then the next day flipped it over and painted the top edge and inside of the bowl.) Let dry completely.
1. Choose a household bowl you like the size and shape of. Cover it as smoothly as possible in aluminum foil, then give the outside of the bowl a spray with nonstick cooking spray (this is so the hardened paper will pop off the bowl easily later).
2. Mix a slurry of flour and water in a bowl in about a 1:1 ratio. Rip some newspaper into long strips.
3. Invert bowls on large pieces of newspaper. Dip a strip of newspaper in the slurry, pull it up through your index and middle fingers to wipe off excess, then drape it across the bowl and smooth it down. Cover the bowl in slightly overlapping strips of newspaper like this all going the same direction until bowl is covered.
4. Turn the bowl 90 degrees and add another layer of newspaper strips the same way. Do more layers as desired (we did a total of 4-6 layers on each bowl). Let dry completely overnight.
5. Cut the overhanging part of the strips off the next day and pop the foil-covered bowls out of the now-hard paper. To smooth the rough paper edges, make more flour-water mixture and dip short strips of newspaper in it in order to lay them over just the edge of the bowl, overlapping all the way around. Let dry overnight.
6. Paint the bowls any way you like with acrylic or tempera paints. Let dry overnight.
7. Paint a coat of Mod Podge to give it a shiny, glazed finish. (We Mod-Podged the outside of the bowl one day, let it dry, then the next day flipped it over and painted the top edge and inside of the bowl.) Let dry completely.
We haven't decided what to put in our bowls-- they'd have to hold something that's not wet! But they would make a nice gift or decoration.
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