Kids of the first year of life grow so quickly that parents do not even have time to look back. But you want to capture the moments when the crumb is very small. The way out of the situation is a cast of pens and legs. Buy a ready-made kit for their manufacture now is not difficult. However, the price of such kits is often surprising, and the components for creativity seriously limit fantasy. How realistic is it to make casts of hands and feet with your own hands, bypassing improvised means? It turns out that the procedure is fairly simple, and it will take quite a bit of materials!
Casts from plaster
How to make casts of hands and feet with your hands using plaster? It is necessary to take plasticine, you can even old, warm it in a microwave oven and form a cake to fit the imprint of the foot or palm. Then we make an imprint on the cake. If the first time does not work, then it is only necessary to reheat the mass anew. To make the impression clearer and deeper, when pressing, it is necessary to fix the edges of the cake so that they do not part ways. It is convenient to use for this purpose some form with bumps. After obtaining an acceptable result, the mold is placed in the freezer for solidification. We produce plaster for sculptural works (can be purchased in an art shop) in accordance with the instructions and additionally add a little PVA glue, fill the resulting mass in flat cakes with prints, leave for some time for solidification. When the gypsum has solidified, the resulting moldings are carefully cleaned of the plasticine and left for about a day for final drying. Then you should gently walk on them with sandpaper, removing roughness and roughness. Do this carefully, so as not to crumble the finished product. On top, apply the paint in several layers. The most popular options are bronze or silver metallic, but the choice of color depends on you. After drying, the molds of the handles and legs (by their own hands, by the way, made) are ready! They can be placed in a deep frame, placed on a stand or otherwise inscribed into the interior.
Molds from alabaster
The second, no less budgetary way, with which you can make casts of handles and legs with your own hands, is the use of alabaster as a basis. It is necessary to mix five glasses of flour, two and a half glasses of shallow salt, a tube of baby cream, mix. Gradually add water, achieving the consistency of plasticine. We make cakes of the necessary form and make footprints and palms. Molds are placed in the oven and dried at a low temperature until solidification. Lubricate prints with petroleum jelly and fill it with diluted alabaster, leave to dry. After complete drying, carefully take out the molds from the mold with the help of a nail file, a file, other improvised means, and give them a neat shape. After this, the molds are covered with the paint of the desired color and let it dry.
We examined two of the most simple ways how to make casts of handles and legs with your own hands. As you can see, this is quite simple and accessible to parents. And the possibilities of further decoration are limited only by the assortment of art store products! It can be a beautiful frame in the marine style for the boy, decorated with pebbles and seashells, flower decoration for the girl. And you can do a cast of a pen every month and by the end of the year you will make an unusual panel, which will clearly show how quickly the baby grew during this period.