What to make an imprint of the handle and foot. We make a mold of a child's hand and foot with our own hands. Features and methods of preparing puff pastry

Now my sun is already three and a half months old, and she is getting older and bigger every day, although I don’t notice it at all. That is why I wanted to have at least something to remember her the way she is now.

Somehow I came across an ad about making compositions with clay casts of children's hands and feet. Of course, I really liked the idea - after all, having a cast of your favorite feet and hands is much more pleasant than just a print or a contour drawn with a pencil around thin, sweet fingers. But I decided not to resort to the help of strangers, but to do everything myself - it's much more pleasant, and the baby can be scared of strangers.

I did it like this:

1. Kneaded salty dough.

It is best to make elastic salt dough according to this recipe:
2 cups of flour
1 cup salt (preferably fine)
1 tbsp starch / hand cream / vegetable oil
0.5 - 1 tbsp. water

All ingredients must be mixed thoroughly. The mass should be quite thick. The dough should not crumble. If it turned out to be too thick - add a little water, too thin - salt with flour (it is always necessary to observe the ratio of flour and salt 2: 1).

2. When the dough becomes like this:

We tear off small pieces from it, on which we will make prints of children's legs and pens, something like this:

3. Now, we bring a piece of dough to the child's foot, and take root tightly. We need to get as deep an imprint as possible. Ideally, all the lines on the baby's foot should be printed on the test, but I will say right away: it is quite difficult to achieve this, in any case, when making prints in this way.

Making a pen print is more difficult, especially if the child is not yet six months old - my baby always took pieces of dough with her)))

5. The last two procedures can be repeated indefinitely. I made about five to seven prints of each foot and each hand in order to be able to choose the most successful ones.

6. Then there are two ways. You can first bake the resulting prints of children's hands and feet in the oven (about 30 minutes at a temperature of 130 degrees), or you can work with raw dough. In the first case, you will be able to use each print several times. In addition, if you bake the dough longer, you can save the trace itself - it also looks very good. You can make a memorable composition with him)). However, making molds from raw dough is easier and faster.
I've tried both methods and I like the second one better.

7. So, we take a baked or raw print of a child's foot or pen, and pour plaster into it. This must be done quickly before the plaster has hardened.

Let the mold dry in the mold for 15 minutes.
If you are using a print made from baked dough, it is best to pre-lubricate it with Vaseline or vegetable oil so as not to damage the impression when you take it out of the mold.

8. We take out the casts, clean them from the rest of the dough (if you used raw dough) and dry them. It will take a long time to dry - 3-5 days.

9. We grind plaster casts with a knife and sandpaper. We cut through the fingers, remove all unnecessary, make the surface smooth. Be careful - make sure that all baby lines are preserved.

Our mothers circled our hands and feet in childhood, so that in the children's album there would be a memory of what we were. Already at school, we circled them ourselves and gave them to each other.

Today you can make an imprint of the child's hand and foot with every fold on the skin. And your Romeo will be able to give his Juliet in kindergarten not just a picture, but a three-dimensional copy of his pen. In our century, you won’t surprise anyone with photographs, videos are shot with a mobile phone, and casts of children’s arms and legs in 3D format are really exclusive, which you can’t buy, you can only order a master or make it yourself.

Godparents buy a gift certificate for this service so that an adult child will remember them with gratitude. Lovers (as in the "Avenue of Stars") and newlyweds order handprints on a stand with engraving. For the hero of the day, you can call a specialist at home, and organize a gift - a procedure as part of the holiday program.

Now it is fashionable to collect sculptural copies of the entire family and keep them as family heirlooms for posterity. Many people order accurate 3D sculptures of their hands.

Of course, such casts were invented a long time ago, but this service was expensive, and not everyone dared to take their crumbs across the city to the sculptor's workshop. Children grow rapidly, and I want to leave an extraordinary gift in memory of childhood. When your child becomes famous, these casts will be worth more than gold. Now many masters provide this service, but it is quite possible to manage on your own at home.

Children's casts. Method one - on the sand

Tools and materials

Step-by-step instruction

1. Sand is poured into a bowl (without tamping).
2. Carefully in the center we make an imprint of the handle or foot of the child.
3. Along the edges we lay out the selected decor for prints.
4. Dilute alabaster to the consistency of sour cream (better cold water, as it seizes very quickly).
5. In a thin stream, so as not to spoil the work, pour the solution onto the sand with a layer of 2 - 3 cm.
6. After 15 minutes, when the alabaster completely hardens, carefully remove it from the mold.
7. > We clean it from sand with a brush and cover it with paint, varnish, apply a commemorative inscription.

Materials of casts of children's hands and feet are very diverse. We got used to the sand, you can experiment with plasticine.

Method two - plasticine

Tools and materials

• children's soft plasticine;
• gypsum;
• PVA glue;
• decor material.

Step-by-step instruction

Method three - in the test

Tools and materials

• wheat flour - 1 cup;
• fine salt - half a glass;
• vegetable oil or glue - 1 tbsp;
• paints;
• decor material.

Step-by-step instruction

For grandparents, this is the most desired gift that they will keep for a lifetime.

But no one canceled grandmother's fun and simple method - if there are hypoallergenic paints in the house, just give your child paper and paints - and you will have a lot of prints in five minutes.

If you have mastered simple ways from simple improvised materials, you can purchase a set for professionals.

Children grow up very quickly, and you need to have time to catch moments that will delight you all your life!

Hello dear readers, finally I am ripe for a new article!
A year and a half has passed since the last inspiration!
A lot of new things have happened in my life, the most important thing is that my son, Leonid, my second child, was born (in January 2014)!
He is now 6.5 months old. And I again started a business with casts!

How to make a mold of the arms and legs with your own hands from plaster? We answer: "Very simple!"

There are tons of kits for making them in stores, and there are a lot of different tips on the Internet on how to make them!

In 2011, 3 years ago, when I was making casts of Danochka's arms and legs, I first bought a ready-made set. I did everything according to the instructions. She diluted the mixture, put the sleeping child’s hand into a plate, and my Danulya took it and woke up and knocked over all this liquid on me! While I was washing, the second jar of gel dried up. Conclusion: I threw money away!

Then I got into my favorite Internet, and saw a lot of recipes for making children's casts from gypsum.

I want to tell you the simplest and easiest way to make casts of your favorite arms and legs, which I liked the most!

To make children's casts you will need:


For test:
- half a glass of water,
- two tablespoons of sunflower oil,
(oil is needed to make the dough more elastic)
- one glass of flour,
- one glass of salt
(preferably fine, salt is needed so that the dough is “obedient”, so that it keeps its shape better)

The volume of my glass is 150 milliliters.

To make the casts themselves:
- gypsum,
- water.

Where can I get plaster for making children's casts?

1. You can buy on the construction market.
2. You can buy any children's kit for creativity, for example, the Sculptor kit.
I have this set since 2011 :-)

First we make the dough.
In a bowl, mix salt and flour, pour in oil and water, mix everything.
The dough should be tight! If the dough is runny, add more flour.
Divide the dough in half and roll it out with your hands.
It is necessary to get two small round, but thick (2-3 cm) cakes, so that the cast is more voluminous.


We take a little one, make prints of the legs and handles!

For the first time with Dana, I made the right arm and the left leg.
The second time with Leonid, I made the right arm and right leg.
It is better to do as the first time, for example, the left arm and right leg or vice versa.
I think it looks so beautiful!

Next, take a disposable glass, pour water, pour gypsum and mix everything.
I don’t specifically write the proportions of water and gypsum, since I made liquid gypsum “by eye”.
The consistency should be like sour cream or kefir.

We pour liquid plaster into our children's prints, and wait.


When the plaster has hardened, remove the dough and our casts are ready!


The rest of the dough is easily removed with ordinary water.

It remains to decorate them!

You can color the casts as you like, I took pink and silver nail polish!
First, she painted the children's casts with pink, and then with silver varnish.
Here's what happened.


Then I found a beautiful frame on the Internet, added a photo of the child and signed the age - I printed the photo!
I bought a regular photo frame, put a photo, a pregnancy test, a bracelet and a tag from the hospital!
I glued ready-made children's casts, on double sided tape, on the glass!

So a beautiful frame with children's casts is ready for a long memory!

You can add baby's first clothes, a pacifier, and more.

For comparison, I post a photo of my first frame with casts!


Now we have this beauty at home:


Children's casts can be made at any age, but to make it easier to attach them, it is better when they are still tiny.
The sooner you make casts, the easier it is to attach them to the photo frame!

Good luck with your creations!

P.S. : The only thing I didn't understand is how to remove air bubbles from plaster?
Small dots appear on the casts.
Maybe you need to stir longer?

Baby molds from puff pastry

This method is considered the cheapest, but it should immediately be noted that the material is short-lived. The dough can crumble after a few months, and the high humidity in the room will ruin it even faster. Of course, you can extend the life of the cast by varnishing it, but it will still serve you only a few years longer.

Making plaster molds

You can immortalize the arm and leg of your baby in the form of a cast using ordinary plaster, as in the photo. But this method is not ideal either. For example, if your baby suffers from allergies, you can not use ordinary building plaster. In addition, the casts are too bulky and heavy, and there is simply nowhere to put them later. However, we will tell you how to make it yourself.

First, we dilute the gypsum with water as indicated in the instructions. We take a form (for example, a round cup or a small saucepan), cover it cling film and pour out the plaster.

When the mixture begins to solidify, we make an imprint. It is better to lubricate the baby's leg or arm in advance with fat cream or sunflower oil. When the mold is completely hardened, you can easily remove the pen from the mold.

Casts of children's hands and feet made of plastic

This is the most progressive way that will help you make a cast of a child's hand and foot at home.

First you need to make "rough" prints from salt dough. Some recommend that they be made of plastic, but this material has quite bad smell and firm consistency, so you don't know how your baby will react to them. PICTURE 5

Salt dough print should be well oiled. Take the plastic, knead it into a thin plate and fill in all the holes so that it exactly repeats the shape of a child's arm or leg.

When the mixture hardens a little, it can be removed and cleaned of excess dough with a cotton swab. Cut out the cast and leave to cool somewhere on the windowsill.

Now on sale there are even special kits that help you make casts with your own hands. They immediately provide a container and a mixture for the print. Therefore, if for some reason you do not trust the methods we have proposed, you can use the kit and make yourself a great keepsake.

Video how to make casts of arms and legs with your own hands

Surely all parents want to keep warm emotional memories of the childhood of their kids. But, unfortunately, even the most detailed pictures cannot always convey the quivering magical feeling that mom and dad experience while touching their child's tiny fingers. To the aid of sentimental parents in this case come casts of children's arms and legs, made with their own hands.

colorful footprints

The first thing that comes to mind to perpetuate the arms and legs of a child is to dip them in watercolor or gouache and print them on plain paper or cardboard. Yes, it's not the best original way but it is cheap and fast. To keep this sheet for a long time, you can either laminate it or put it in a beautiful stretcher.

Plasticine legs

Also, a simple option to make casts of children's arms and legs with your own hands is plasticine. The one that hardens in the air itself, or a special mixture for modeling, is best suited. The mass should be flattened in the form of a medallion and it is good to print the baby’s hand or foot in it. Be sure to make a hole before the plasticine is dry so that the “home heirloom” can be hung on a ribbon.

Salt dough print

Many of us sculpted “salty” figures in childhood, and now, having become parents, salt dough will help us capture the tiny fingers of our babies. So, how to make casts of children's arms and legs from salt dough?

We dissolve half a glass of salt in a glass of water and add about a glass of flour (more can be until the dough starts to come off your hands). We divide the mass that we have obtained into 4 identical parts and roll it out with a rolling pin into flat rounds a couple of centimeters thick and the size of a child's arm and leg. With dry clean palms and feet of the baby, we press deeply into each piece. If the cast is fuzzy or you don't like it, you can roll the dough again and repeat the procedure.

When the cast is ready, put the dough to dry for 2-3 weeks. After that, the dough can be painted with acrylic paints. As you can see, this method is quite painstaking, but the result will be durable and original casts of the child's arms and legs from salt dough.

Cast of salt dough and plaster

Even more meticulous and unusual way get prints (casts) of children's hands and feet with your own hands - plaster them.

To do this, we make the dough according to the recipe described above, and in the same way we form prints, and it is better to make the dough 2 times more so that the print is as deep as possible (2-3 cm in depth). We take gypsum (a set for creativity from special art children's stores is best, but a construction kit is also possible). We dilute it with water in the proportion of 1 glass of gypsum to half a glass of water (it is important to add water to gypsum, and not vice versa). Add 2-3 tablespoons of PVA glue to make the resulting cast stronger. Knead everything very quickly and pour into the form with the dough.

While the mass has not frozen, it is better to wipe all the ugly edges with a cloth, otherwise they will have to be cut off later, which can damage the shape. We leave for a day to solidify a cast of a child's hand (leg) with our own hands. Gypsum usually dries quickly, but in order for everything to turn out well, it is better not to touch it for several hours. After that, the finished cast can be taken out of the test. We grind all the irregularities with sandpaper. You can decorate such prints with acrylic paint or make an interesting collage of children's photos with them. The main thing is to approach the process with imagination!

Casts of sand

Another way to get casts of children's hands and feet with your own hands is to use sand instead of dough. The principle of operation is the same. We pour sand into a deep container, moisten it with water so that it turns into a thick mass, but does not float in water and the child's print does not spread. We lower the baby’s leg or handle deeper (1-2 cm) so that an imprint remains, and take it out. Then we lower the gypsum into the resulting mold (the proportions are described above) and leave it for several hours to solidify. Then shake off the excess sand.

Casts from a ready-made set

Several ways were given here on how to make casts of children's arms and legs with your own hands, but you can also use ready-made kits for creativity. They allow you to create high-quality “handles” and “legs” without the use of improvised means, just follow the instructions. There are 2D sets (only with prints), 3D sets (full hand and foot), as well as with the possibility of making a cast of a child’s hand together with an adult hand, casts in a frame, on a stand, in an album, with an engraved plate and much more. The only drawback of this method is the high cost, but those who really know a lot about original and memorable gizmos will appreciate it.

Instead of a conclusion

Creating memorabilia, whether it be photographs or the first homemade handmade, is very important, because children grow up very quickly, and we can’t keep every detail in memory. In addition to such wonderful casts, mother's chest with little treasures can be constantly replenished - with tags from the hospital or a photo from the first ultrasound, greeting cards from relatives and friends. Photo albums, a bag of the first strand of hair, the first clothes, the first toy, the first pacifier or the first bottle, and when the baby grows up, the first drawings, the first fakes and many other amazing memorabilia.

Yes, and a child, for sure, in adulthood, will want to get acquainted again with the things that surrounded him in childhood, and even, perhaps, just a little bit to remember that wonderful carefree and happy time.