This year we are using A Year of Playing Skillfully and one of the art projects this month is to make Dale Chihuly inspired Macchia Bowls. Since my girls have done something similar already, I tried to come up with a different "glass-like" sculpture we could make. We go through a huge amount of eggs and I'm always saving cartons to use for art projects. I noticed my plastic cartons would make perfect little bowl shapes for us to paint and turn into a sculpture. The girls and I watched this video to show them examples of Chihuly's work, and we read a little of his biography when they inevitably asked about his eye patch.
For this project you'll need:
A plastic egg carton (we just used one 18 egg carton from Costco)
Sharp scissors
Glue (we just used plain white Elmer's)
Liquid watercolors
Foam brushes
Glue gun (I bought a low temp glue gun to use around the girls)
I cut apart the carton into individual bowl shapes, leaving the edges irregular for more interest. Then I added a teaspoon of liquid watercolors to 1/4 cup of glue (we had leftovers of each color which we'll save for future use). The girls painted the bowls pretty quickly and we left them to dry (it took more than a day for the ones with more glue to dry). Margot helped art direct my hot gluing and we attempted a skinny Christmas shape to resemble some of Chihuly's large towering sculptures. It looks quite pretty hanging by a window or just up on the wall.
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