Decorative Driftwood Resin Bowl

In this Instructable, you will learn how to make a decorative driftwood resin bowl.

This is a great, calming indoors decoration to remind you of the outside!

- Resin

- Driftwood

- Old plastic ball (the type you can deflate, like a beach ball)

- Glass/Plastic bowl

- Tape

- Plastic wrap

- Pliers/ a sander tool

If the driftwood is dirty, you might need to wash & clean it. Wait until it dries completely.

Make sure it is balanced. Trim off extra or rotten parts and sand the bottom flat. Make sure it can fit a bowl on top. Mine, luckily only needed some sanding at the bottom.

Optionally, you can preserve the driftwood with diluted bleach (submerge it for 5 days then dry). You might want to shape it before bleaching to avoid different coloring.

Deflate the ball and shape it into a roughly circular shape.

Cut a small hole to pour the resin in.

Mix the resin and the hardener together and stir thoroughly for 3 minutes.

Pour the resin in the hole to fill up the mold.

Cover the mold with plastic wrap to prevent leakage. (I used an deflated beach ball that has leaks :( )

Add the glass bowl and tape it on. You may want to place the mold on the driftwood while it is still liquid so that it fits more snugly. We wrapped the whole thing with tape in an asterisk shape to create many supports for the final product to rest on the driftwood.

Tip: flatten the inside wrinkles. I did not do this, and it resulted in some pieces of plastic being wedged into the resin, making it hard to remove. You can leave the outside wrinkles alone, as it can create an interesting pattern!

After the resin has dried (it takes about a day), carefully remove the plastic wrap, tape, and glass bowl.

Peel the plastic ball off the resin.

Use a plier/sanding tool to remove small plastic bits wedged in uncomfortable places.

Tip: I later had to use resin to fix some small holes created by the wrinkles.

Tip: I did not add any coloring, but apparently, the beach ball colored the resin. We are lucky the color was just a pale green went well with driftwood. If your inflatable ball is of different color, you might consider trying it out and preparing colored resin.

Enjoy your new decoration!