Help with RS homework

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I need the help of the trusty mumsnetters team. Dc (year 7) has to make a model of a torah for RS homework (why can't they just learn the key facts by rote like I had to in the olden days, eh? At least when the homeworks were 'design a poster about....' he could just get on with it but this needs a bit of input and possibly purchase of stuff).

I am possibly the least arty and creative person to walk the planet and I have no clue what to buy or how to go about this. The teacher has said 'no rolling pins' and that was my only good idea! I think even I could manage something with the inside of a kitchen roll tube but that's as far as my imagination stretches. Help!

Yikes! The teacher is evidently pissed off with the class then!!! I've set 'building a mosque' for class and homework and had lots of mess in the classroom and Year 7 loved it; but not a model of the Torah.

You could go for a couple of lengths of dowel with parchment wrapped around it? If you use google images and look for a Torah scroll then there are some fairly good pictures. You could also perhaps use rolling pins from a child's baking set - they are much smaller, and if stained with wood stain that might work.

You could also put the paper in the oven to make it look more parchment-like.

Dying it in coffee works as well.

What good ideas - what on earth is dowel?

Dowel is what you might use to mount needlework on to hang it. It's a thin length of round wood. Most DIY places do it. Alternatively, thin brass curtain rods?