How to make a plaster cast of a child's pen

The kids are so cute and touching that I want to capture a memory every minute of their childhood. And parents do it all: shoot lots of pictures, keep diaries, and record medical data, protect children's drawings, etc. Another way to capture a child is to make a mold of the handle. Stores sell special kits for this. But there is a method much cheaper. You can use regular plaster or cooked with your own hands a salty dough.

You will need

• - capacity to measure the ingredients;
• water;
• Sol;
• - flour;
• - a rolling pin;
• oven;
• elements of decor;
• - paint.

Instruction

1. Take the container to measure. You can choose, for example, Cup and it measure out all the ingredients. You will need: one Cup salt, two cups of flour and Cup of water. All this must be thoroughly mixed until a homogeneous mass. The result should be a very stiff dough.
2. Roll out the dough. The end result is a layer, whose thickness should be about two inches. This is blank for future cast.
3. Make a cast handle crumbs. Be sure to clean and dry the palm of the child need to push the billet-dough. It will leave a mark (if desired next you can do an imprint on the legs, and you can make two palms).
4. Determine the shape of the mold. He may be in the form of sun, clouds, heart-shaped, etc. Need to trim the edges of excess dough. If this impression needs to continue to hang on the wall, it is necessary to make a hole for ribbon using straws for a cocktail. But it cannot be located too close to the edge.
5. Make the decoration of the mold. If you plan to use additional decoration, you need to push at the edges of the dough coffee beans, cereals, beads (but not plastic because they will melt), etc.
6. Preheat the oven and place a cast. The temperature should be one hundred to one hundred twenty degrees. The dough should be in the oven for two to three hours. Then a mold is to be removed and cool.
7. The obtained color cast. If desired, the obtained mold can be colored with paints, and the top varnish. For memory on the reverse side you can write the date of manufacture. The impression can be take the form of a picture and place it on the wall. He for many years to decorate and remind him of the happy childhood of your kid.