Now many people are engaged in needlework and home creativity. This helps to distract from the daily bustle, charges with a positive mood, and also decorates the house. It’s easier and more enjoyable to make any craft yourself, and in the future it can even generate income. As an example, we will tell you how to create a gypsum hand with your own hands, and what you need for this.
Necessary materials and tools
In order to start making gypsum hands, you should prepare the following:
- dry gypsum powder;
- water
- rubber gloves (used as a mold);
- scissors.
You will also need paints, brushes, glue.
Dry powder should be diluted with water as directed. The desired consistency can be obtained not the first time, so you can first experiment, try a different ratio of water to mixture. When the divorced gypsum has stood for a while and grabbed, you can begin to create.
How to make a plaster hand
The prepared solution must be poured into a tight household
rubber glove and left to dry. After it hardens, the glove should be cut with scissors - and the plaster
hand made
with your own hands is ready. Now, if desired, it can be painted with paints, glued jewelry - beads, buttons, sparkles. Such a multi-colored hand will decorate the shelf, and on plain white it is convenient to hang rings and other jewelry for storage. By the way, such coasters are also sold in stores, but you must admit that the process of their manufacture is quite simple and does not require special financial investments.
Various plaster crafts
With your own hands at home, you can make not only a hand from plaster. This material is also suitable for leaving handprints or feet on it. It is very interesting to make such memorable decorations: at a wedding, the newlyweds leave handprints, small children retain a cast of the legs or pens. How nice then, after many years, to see and be surprised how tiny your kids were! Some pet lovers keep in the frame and traces of cat's feet. Frames for photographs are also made of gypsum: here the scope for creativity is much wider. Gypsum is poured into the mold for the frame, and then the finished product is decorated at your discretion and taste.
You can attract children to the manufacture of 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 you will not be sorry to cut and throw away later) through the cropped bottom. Or use sand molds, and let the kid paint the finished white figures.
Even such a classic use of gypsum as moldings is now available to almost anyone. For this, in addition to the gypsum itself, you will need art clay and silicone mold grease . The process is completely uncomplicated, but the result will greatly decorate the home. So, you just have to stock up on materials and give creativity some time - and you have made prints, photo frames, stucco molding and a plaster hand with your own hands!