Air drying Clay for handprints?

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Hi I want to make some hand and or foot prints of my DC to send to my parents for Christmas.
Has anyone done this and if so how sucessful was it?

I have not done that.But have done fossil with the clay by pressing on to the toy.It came out well.

we're doing this today with salt dough, fingers crossed it works out!

We did this a couple of years ago and it's still going strong. We painted it in metallic acrylic paint.

www.theimaginationtree.com/2012/04/baby-hand-and-foot-prints-from-salt.html

MrsGubbins how did it turn out?

I made some with cornflour, bicarb and water and was a lovely dough but not a great impression and went kind of brown in the oven

we made it with 1 cup flour, 1/2 salt, 1/2 water and it's turned out ok, had it in a fan oven at 100'c for 3 hours on the bottom shelf and then turned oven off and left it (till I remembered to take it out before cooking dinner!)

the imprint was fine, will see how it looks after paint/varnish