How to make plaster of paris handprints

[Lifeinagoldfishbowl]

Just wondering if anyone had made handprints in plaster of paris and how easy it was to do so.

Was hoping to do it with a 2.5 year old.

Don't know much about it, but just wanted to say PLEASE PLEASE be careful, as there was that dreadful case a few years ago of a school girl getting seriously burnt with plaster of paris, as it heats up as it dries or something?

Perhaps get a 'kit' or something to be on the safe side, and NEVER let a child plubge their hands into a large container of the stuff

It's not hard, you need plaster, water, a dish.

Be careful though, not to insert the hand, plaster can cause chemical burns.

In fact there are probably other precautions as well, someone will know I'm sure. There was a case of a teenage girl who put ehr whole arm in plaster, it dried, and she lost most of her fingers due to burns.

So treat with caution!

x posts! Sorry.

i've used plaster a lot for restoring old dolls. It's Ok if you use clingfilm between hand and plaster, I think that works. Wash off very quick if you don't.

won't use plaster then - will look out for a kit

I have heard of some cases of burns from people in casualty. Can you even still buy plaster of paris? I guess you can but in hospitals these days you only see modroc, which still has plaster of paris in it but is in the bandage to prevent too much being slopped around.

I guess you'd find an art supplies shop that would sell a safer moulding compound anyway.

tesco asda and wilkos do kits :D

You could do a mould... using clay, press the child's hands into that leaving as deep an impression as possible. Then you fill the clay mould with PlasterOfP.

Wikos kit - may be air drying clay.