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And remember, there is no more important safety tip than to wear this (points at glasses), your safety glasses - Norm's right and wrong. In this case you'd better wear an apron, leather is better and be VERY careful with your fingers. On a round bowl if you touch it you get a carpet burn, maybe. If you look at a spinning square of wood, it looks like a huge Shuriken and sounds like a helicopter. Keep the pink bits out of the whirling bits unless you want to be called Stumpy. No Joke. If it comes flying off the lathe, you'll appreciate the apron. Once you have the square of wood, mount it on a sacrificial blank on your faceplate. I use gorilla glue, use what ever you want. Hot glue or a couple thicknesses of construction paper and some carpenter's glue also work, I just think the poly glue works faster and cleans up easier.
Use a larger sacrificial blank than you think you need, much larger, you'll be cutting it down to fit later. Removing wood is easy, adding is harder.
Now the turning begins. Since the corners will flex under wind load and tool pressure when they get thin, you have to do everything to each part before you go on to the next part, going back to correct something can be dangerous and messy. Flatten the top face, the one toward your tailstock with the tool of your choice, then use a bowl gouge and make the bowl shape to the depth you want and remove the center piece that was the original child's' top. Back off your tailstock and flatten the bottom of the depression, clean up the sides and make it *just* the way you want it.
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