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Monkey skull treasure bowl

TUTORIAL

Anyone who is daring enough to reach for treasure

from this bowl will be in for a big surprise

Monkey skull

treasure bowl

e teamed up with artist ‘The

Kuriologist’ to make this solder-

free project, inspired by the

Indiana Jones films. Despite

having a hollow head, this papier-

mâché skull bowl actually has its

own brain, a tiny Adafruit Gemma M0 board. We

wired that up to some bejewelled LEDs using crimp

connectors. The rim of the bowl hides the wire for a

capacitive sensor which triggers our spooky skull.

MAKING THE SKULL

The base of the skull is made from a used tape roll.

On top of that, place a small box which will be used

to house the electronics. The opening part of the

box should be positioned to the back of the skull,

use masking tape to secure. A second roll taped on

top gives the skull some height and forms the bowl.

Scrunch the newspaper into packets of a ‘sausage

roll’ shape.

You can then tape the packets to the rolls to form

the rough outline of the skull. The jaw can be cut

from thick card and taped to the front of the skull.

Cut nasal and eye sockets from card and add with

more tape. Keep poking, squeezing, adding more

masking tape, and building up areas until it looks like

a skull.

Mix up some PVA glue, three parts glue to one

part water. The water will help the glue soak into the

paper and improve drying times. Rip up white paper

W

Right

Monkey brains

anyone?

For the last 10 years

Andy has been making

and repairing in a shed

at the bottom of the

garden. You can see

more of his exploits at

workshopshed.com

Andy Clark

workshopshed

A self-taught

cognitively disabled

‘outsider’ artist. To

overcome housebound

boredom, creates

mixed media

sculptures inspired by

‘cabinets of curiosities’

& dead stuff.

kuriology.com

The Kuriologist

@strangecurios