Magazine Bowl Tutorial

I got a lot of request for a tutorial on how to do create magazine bowls.  So without further ado, here's the tutorial!

What you'll need:

• A stack of magazines
• Hot glue gun
• Mod Podge
• Paintbrush
• A great tv show or movie to sit in front of while you mindlessly fold ridiculous amounts of paper!

And now for the fun part!
1) You will need to rip or cut out a bunch of magazine pages.
2)  Take a magazine page and fold it in half (with the image you like on the outside).

 

3)  Open it back up and fold the ends in to the center crease on both sides.

4)  Fold the long end back to the center crease one more time.

5)  Fold now along the crease so you have one strip like this:

6)  Now do this about a million more times until you have a stack of strips.

7)  Put a dab of hot glue on the end of your first strip and start rolling it up, when you get to the end put a dab of glue to hold it down.  I also usually put a dab of hot glue about half way through each strip just to secure it in place.

8)  On your next strip put a line of glue on one of the short ends.

9) Fit the strip with glue into the end of the last strip.

10)  Continue adding strips until you get your roll to the desired size of the base of your bowl. 

 

 11)  On your next strip start angling your strip upwards as you glue it down (your basically now spiraling your strips upward to your desired height).

12) Keep adding strips until it is as tall as you want your bowl to be.  Then at the top I add one more strip to the top to make sure that the top is even and not crooked.

13)  With your paintbrush apply a coat of Mod Podge.

14)  Allow the first coat of Mod Podge to dry and then add a second and you're done! (The inside of the small bowl looks a little off because the coat of modpodge hadn't dried on that one yet)

Hope everyone enjoys making their own magazine bowls.  I would love to see pictures of how yours turn out!!!