Gypsum hand with your own hands - how to make it?

Now many people are engaged in needlework and home creativity. This helps to get distracted from the daily bustle, charges a positive mood, and also decorates the house. It's simpler and more pleasant to make any craft yourself, besides, in the future it will even be profitable. As an example, let's talk about how a plaster hand is created with our own hands, and what is needed for this.

Required materials and tools

In order to start making a gypsum hand, you should prepare the following:

• Dry gypsum powder;
• Water;
• Rubber gloves (used as a form);
• scissors.

You will also need paints, brushes, glue.

Dry powder should be diluted with water, as indicated in the instructions. The desired consistency can not come from the first time, so you can first experiment, try a different ratio of water and mixture. When the dissolved gypsum stood for a while and grabbed, you can start creating.

How to make a plaster hand

The prepared solution must be poured into a dense household rubber glove and left to dry. After it has solidified, it is necessary to cut the glove with scissors - and a plaster hand made with your own hands is ready. Now, if desired, it can be painted with colors, glued decorations - beads, buttons, sequins. Such a multicolored hand will decorate the shelf, and on a plain white it is convenient to hang rings and other ornaments for storage. By the way, such stands are sold in stores, but you will agree, the process of their manufacture is quite simple and does not require special monetary investments.

Various gypsum crafts

With your hands at home, you can make not only a hand made of gypsum. This material is also suitable for leaving fingerprints or feet on it. It is very interesting to make such memorable ornaments: at the wedding, the bride and groom leave their palm prints, small children save a cast of the legs or pens. How pleasant it is then, after many years, to look and wonder how tiny your little ones were! Some pet lovers keep in the frame and traces of the cat's legs. From gypsum make also a framework for photographs: here too the space for creativity is much wider. Gypsum is poured into a mold for the frame, and then the finished product is decorated at its own discretion and taste.

You can attract children to make figures and various items, they will definitely like the plaster hand. With their own hands they will learn how to make beautiful crafts and even toys. For example, instead of a glove, pour the solution into an old rubber toy (which then will not be a pity to cut and throw) through the cropped bottom. Or use the sand molds, and let the painted white figures figure the baby.

Even such a classic version of the use of gypsum, as the manufacture of stucco, is now available to almost anyone. For this, in addition to the gypsum itself, artistic clay and silicone grease for molds will be required. The process is quite simple, but the result will greatly enhance the home. So, it is only necessary to stock up on materials and give creativity some time - and you have made prints, photo frames, stucco and plaster hand with your own hands!