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You will need

• Gypsum, water, starch, salt, sandpaper, gouache, frame.

Instructions

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Order the making of casts in the workshop orphoto studio. In shops special sets are sold, which you can easily make for your own memories souvenir "paws" of your crumbs. The set usually includes a gel for the form and a special composition for the impression. The gel is poured into the mold, then a handle or a baby's leg is applied to its surface. In the received form is poured gypsum composition, which after complete hardening becomes a plaster cast.

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There is another way of making casts. Knead the elastic salted dough. For 1 cup of flour and 1 glass of salt, take half a glass of brewed starch. Starch brew as follows: 1 tablespoon of starch dilute in half a glass of cold water and pour in 1 glass of hot water. Take half a cup of the resulting solution and knead the dough on it. The resulting dough is divided into 4 portions and make from them flat cakes 3 - 4 cm thick, and the length is equal to the size of the legs and hands of the baby. Place the flat cakes in a container, you can put it in a bowl. Then take the crumb on your hands and carefully make the impressions of its handles and legs on the flat cakes.

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Buy a regular gypsum. Quickly dilute it with water until the consistency of sour cream and pour into the resulting baby footprints. When the gypsum is completely solidified, remove it from the mold and gently treat the edges with sandpaper.

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Then connect the imagination and using gouacheColor the resulting casts. You can make memorable "paws" of your baby in beautiful framing frames, adding a funny photo, a tag from the maternity home and a cheerful poem. Also, if desired, you can make and mold the hands of the parents of a small baby. Place them in a frame next to the small forms of handles and legs. Such a set not only preserves important moments, but also beautifies your home.

Handles and legs of children are so tiny and touching that I would like to leave their molds to memory. To do this, you can use one of the following recipes:

1. Prints can be left in plasticine or mass for modeling. This method is suitable for a baby older than one year. Before this, it is quite difficult to stretch the mass so well that a light touch of a child's arm or leg leaves a strong imprint.

2. Perhaps the most popular way to make a cast of a handle or a leg is the use of a salted dough. Mix 1 cup of flour, 1 cup of salt, 2 tbsp. a spoonful of oil and ½ cup of water. Knead a steep homogeneous dough. If necessary, add a little more water to make the dough more plastic. Roll the dough into a 2 cm thick sheet and form a shape (this can be a circle, a square or, for example, a heart). Attach your child's pen or stalk to the dough and leave for a few seconds. Then gently remove the handle or foot. If the first impression was not very good, roll the dough again and start all over again. Make a hole for a carnation or ribbon. Leave the resulting print to dry at room temperature for 2-3 weeks. After this, the impression can be painted with acrylic paints and varnished. Instead of long-term drying, you can bake an imprint in the oven. However, in this case, the dough may rise and the impression will be distorted.

Preparation of the solution

Kits for modeling, commercially available, quiteexpensive. For the sake of economy, it is possible to make casts of children's handles and legs from inexpensive means, for example, from a salted dough. And the process of making such a test is very simple. For a salt test, you need 2/3 cups of salt, half a glass of water, a glass of flour and one tablespoon of vegetable oil. Salt is better to use fine grinding, because large salt can form irregularities on the surface of the dough and even injure the delicate skin of the baby. Dissolve salt in the water, add flour and butter. Knead the dough. It should turn out to be steep, but at the same time soft and elastic, and should not stick to the surface of the hands. Finished dough wrap in food film and put in the refrigerator for 2-3 hours. Remove the salted dough and again knead until it becomes room temperature. Divide it into several parts and on a pre-prepared surface, start rolling out to a thickness of 1-2 cm. Lay the prepared layers, for example, on a dense cardboard. Take a clean and dry palm of the child and ask to press it on the dough. You can help the baby and lightly press his pen. If the child is too small, then you can transfer the whole process while the baby is sleeping. Carefully take your hand out of the dough and see what happened, and whether everything suits you. If for some reason the print turned out to be uneven, take a salty dough and repeat all over again. Do the same with your feet.

The case for gypsum

Take a small unnecessary container and dilute inher gypsum at the rate of 2/3 glass of alabaster on half a glass of water. Quickly, but gently mix, so that it does not form in the mixture of lumps. Fill the already existing dough in the test. After the gypsum was poured, lightly move the cardboard from side to side so that the mixture evenly fell down. Alabaster very quickly freezes, and therefore, while it is in a liquid state, eliminate all irregularities. Next, remove your crafts in a place inaccessible to the child for a day.

Arrangement of composition

The most crucial moment comes, requiringmaximum accuracy - extract the impression from the dough. Start this process from your fingers, moving to the palm. Since the gypsum is not yet completely frozen, you can easily remove all the excess with sandpaper. Finished casts clean up to complete drying. And now it's a matter of fantasy. You can leave a cast as they are or decorate, for example, with gold. Now you can compose the composition. On the cardboard basis, glue the prints of the pens and legs, a photo of the baby. You can write the name and age of the child. Decorate as your heart desires and insert into the frame.

You will need

• - container for measuring ingredients;
• - water;
• - salt;
• - flour;
• - rolling pin;
• - An oven;
• - decor elements;
• - paints.

Instructions

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Take the container to measure. You can choose, for example, a mug and measure all the ingredients. It will take: one mug of salt, two mugs of flour and a mug of water. All this must be thoroughly mixed to a homogeneous mass. In the end, you should get a very steep dough.

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Roll out the dough. As a result, a layer will form, the thickness of which should be about two centimeters. This is the preparation for the future impression.

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Make cast pens crumbs. A clean and necessarily dry palm of the child should be pressed into the resulting billet-dough. In it there will be an imprint (if desired, you can make a footprint on the side, or you can make two hands).

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Determine the shape of the impression. It can be made in the form of a sun, a cloud, a heart, etc. You need to cut off the excess dough. If this cast must then hang on the wall, then you need to make a hole for the ribbon with a straw for a cocktail. But it should not be placed too close to the edge.

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Make the decor cast. If you plan to apply an additional decor, you need to press the edges of the test coffee beans, cereals, beads (but not plastic, because they melt), etc.

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Preheat the oven and place it there. cast. The temperature should be one hundred-twenty degrees. The dough should be in the oven for two to three hours. Then cast should get it and cool it.

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Color the received cast. If desired, the cast you can paint with colors, and top coat with varnish. For memory on the reverse side, you can write the date of manufacture. The impression can be made in the form of a picture and placed on a wall. He will decorate the interior for many years and remind you of the happy childhood of your baby.