Guest Post From Jayne: DIY Leaf Bowl Using Air Drying Clay

This week we are away on holiday so as usual I will be passing these pages over to other awesome bloggers to entertain you. I love being able to introduce you to fellow bloggers who you may not yet be familiar with – but I do hope they will become part of your new regular reads.

Kicking off this week is Jayne who is sharing a fantastic craft activity which you can all try for yourselves at home. I will definitely be making this with both Emmy and Harry when we return.

Jayne writes over at Sticky Mud and Belly Laughs which is a family & lifestyle blog. She is a 36 year old wife to Craig and mummy to two little boys. While working from home mum she also home schools her 6 year old boy. You’ll normally find her being silly with the boys or behind her DSLR making memories.

Over to Jayne…

“We went on a scavenger hunt in the local woods just the other day, so we thought we could make use of the leaves we collected to make a leaf bowl, using air drying clay.

We don’t need any excuse to get the craft box out in this house and I thought this would make a nice keepsake.

Table of Contents

You will need

A Large Leaf

Air Drying Clay

Rolling Pin

A deep bowl

Paints (We used Acrylic)

Roll with it!

Firstly we rolled out the clay with an old rolling-pin to about half an inch thick. Then placed the leaf on top and gently rolled over, just enough to transfer the pattern off the veins onto the clay.

I got a sharp craft knife and cut around the shape of the leaf. Then slightly, bending the edges of the leaves up and placing in a bowl to keep the shape whilst it dried.