![]() It was the reverse experience of the playdough prints we made with sculpey. We pulled out the playdough and pressed animal and sea figurines into the dough to make the molds. *The tub of plaster of Paris I buy is about $10, but I usually buy mine with a 40-50% off coupon at AC Moore or Michael’s. Playdough (try one of these awesome homemade playdough recipes for a nice, big batch of super soft playdough to work with).Here are the details on how we did the plaster casting activity… Plaster Casting for Kids with Playdough Molds And the plaster was fun to squish and squeeze, but we all had such high expectations for the beads and glitter smoosh-ins that their complete disappearance was a let-down.īut, we still had the plaster out and so I thought we’d try another plaster project. ![]() The glitter was almost completely invisible as well (unlike when we add glitter to playdough). Sadly, they were a bit of a disappointment. We were going to make plaster sculptures in plastic bags, as we did before with the toddler art group, but this time we would add food coloring, glitter, and colorful beads and they would be so. I bought this big tub of plaster with another project in mind. It held minute detail so well! We were all impressed and plan to try it again soon. I was actually surprised at how well the playdough worked as a plaster mold. ![]() It was completely a spur of the moment and kind of a way to rescue a plaster of Paris disappointment. The kids and I did some plaster casting a couple of days ago using playdough for our molds. ![]()
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