DIY a Green Quilled Bowl Set

  After making the set of bowls, I filled them with either blue berries, granola and yogurt or
strawberries, granola and yogurt. Of course, this is just pretend food, but our dolls love it!

       Young students can learn to make dishes for their dolls using only paper and glue! These kinds of dishes are made using a ''quilling'' technique.   
       The supplies needed for this craft are: paper - your choice color and design for paper quills, white school glue, Mod Podge, scissors, a large bead any kind, one skewer, plastic wrap , twist tie (wire found on loaves of bread in market).

Step-by-Step Instructions: 

1. First, cut long narrow strips of paper. Make all of these lengths the same width, whatever that width may be. My green dishes are quilled using lengths of paper that are approximately 2/4 inch wide. You will need many cut lengths of paper to make four small bowls like mine.
2. Next, lightly dab on a narrow line of white school glue down the length of each piece of cut quill paper as you spin it on top of it's self around the skewer. 
3. Detach the small "wheel'' shape after it gets to be approximately 1/2 inch in size. Let it dry.
4. Fit a large bead onto the skewer. This bead will determine the size of your doll's bowl. The larger the bead, the larger the bowl. 
5. Wrap the bead with a bit of plastic wrap and twist tie it to the lower half of the skewer.
   
6. Fit the dry ''wheel'' shaped bead at the top of the bead. 
7. Now glue on more cut paper quills around the initial "wheel"shaped bead and work your way around the sides of the bead. Apply small amounts of glue as you wrap the sides of the bowl around the bead's sides. 
8. Stop wrapping and applying glue once you have worked your way around and down half of the bead to shape the quilled bowl. 
9. Let the bowl dry before removing it from the bead. 
10. Untie the plastic wrap and lift the bowl gently off of the bead.
11. Use a hole punch to clip off circles to glue and cover the openings of the bowl at the center part.
    
12. Apply Mod Podge to every surface of the quilled bowl several times. 
    

Left, four quilled bowls make excellent doll dishes! Center, see the bowl turned upside down
and hole punch tool. Right, the bowl is drying after applying a coat or two of Mod Podge.

More Quilling Crafts for Students:

• Learn how to quill a poinsettia at our Christmas blog here
• Learn how to quill a Jack-o-lantern at Thrifty Scissors