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Life Like Reproductions the Life Casting Way

Have you ever wanted to make a mold of your face? Arm? Leg? Or any other body part? It's easy when you use skin safe molding materials. With the holidays coming up you and the kids can make grandma and grandpa a hand or foot casting to preserve the kids in history.

Using skin safe molding materials, you can easily create a mold of the kid's hand to make into a wall plaque or ashtray. Although, most people no longer need ashtrays, they can also be used as a candy tray. You can also use casting kits. They come with everything you need to make that special gift for the grandparents.

You can make a sculpture of the kids or yourself, using mold making kits, which, by the way, use skin safe molding materials. The kits come with:

€ MoldGel alginate-based mold powder
€ CastRite casting stone
€ Clay to plug nose holes when casting
€ Plaster Bandages
€ Special cotton fiber to bond MoldGel to plaster bandage
€ 2.5 gallon plastic mixing containers - reusable
€ Cotton swabs to keep the nose clear
€ Drop cloth
€ Instructions

It's easy to do when you follow the direction. They are step-by-step, so you won't have any problems giving your kids a way to give a gift to their grandparents or parents. A hand print is one of the most precious gifts you can give. It immortalizes your kids. Twenty years from now, when you dig into those boxes in the attic, you'll find treasures of your kid's past.

If you want to make a bigger cast of your kids, then you'll need a vacuum chamber for resin casting or at least, a cheap vacuum chamber. It's used to suck out all the air, so there won't be any air bubbles in the cast.

You can also use the casting kits for plants, customized mold, rings, and various types of jewelry. The casting kits make wonderful roses for a vase of roses that will last forever. Even if you've never cast a mold in your life, using one of Environmolds molding kits is as easy as A, B, C. If you do run into problems, you can give them a call and they will step you through the instructions.

As the holidays grow near, you'll need a couple of weeks to make the casting with molds or with a customized mold. Also, the kids will want to paint the casting and put their name on it for the grandparents. That will take a while for everything to dry and be ready to give as a gift.

About Life Casting Kits

EnvironMolds has assembled one of the largest collections of life casting kits available anywhere. These outstanding kits contain all the materials needed to create a beautiful life casting work of art. Our kits can be divided into beginner, experienced and advanced. They include kits for casting baby's hand and foot, to adult hands, faces, torso and even a full body. No matter what your experience level you can always count on an ArtMolds Life Casting kit for quality materials and easy to understand directions. See an examples of face castings here.Then see the method for creating a front torso cast as demonstrated for the TV show Change of Heart using ArtMolds' Front Torso Casting Kit.
As an added bonus, make certain you check our ArtMolds Hall of Fame to be inspired by world cast lifecasting and photo-realistic sculptors including Duane Hanson, Ron Muek, Geaorge Segal, Jon Deandrea and Jason de Caires Taylor.


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