![]() ![]() We ended up re-painting the leaves with with BioColor paint after a few days (except for the leaves with the metallic watercolors). The gold liquid watercolor paint stayed beautiful and perfect, but the rest of the liquid watercolors soaked into the plaster. See how colorful and vibrant the liquid watercolors are? They didn’t stay that way, sadly. So now we know that ferns (at least this kind) don’t work well for leaf casting. As you can see above, the fern never came out of the plaster. We painted our plaster leaves with liquid watercolors. If you have any ideas for stabilizing the larger plaster leaves, please let me know! And then maybe another piece of cheesecloth? Also, has anyone tried mixing glue with the plaster? I wonder how that would work… My idea was to spread a layer of plaster, then lay a piece of cheesecloth over the plaster, and spread another layer of plaster over that. We want to try this again, and I think that next time we’ll use something to help stabilize the plaster on the larger leaves. The hosta plaster leaf turned out really well, too.Īnd the okra plaster leaf is amazing, but so large that pieces broke off. Then we turned the plaster leaves over and pulled off the main leaves as well. Once the plaster of Paris had hardened, the kids pulled off the top leaves. Maia and Daphne placed more leaves on top of the plaster for extra leaf prints and extra fun. Mostly I squeezed the plaster and Maia spread it around with a spoon. I tried to just squeeze within the perimeter of the leaf, but it overflowed a bit onto the wax paper. ![]() From left to right are a hosta leaf, an oakleaf hydrangea leaf, a fern frond, a perilla leaf, and two viburnum leaves.Īs before, we mixed the plaster of Paris in a gallon-sized ziplock plastic bag and snipped off the end to have control over it as I squeezed it out. And concrete is unwieldy… And, and…īut, we already had the plaster of Paris and it is so easy to mix up (two parts plaster to one part water), so we tried it first with a large okra leaf outside.Īnd then with an assortment of leaves inside (placed over wax paper to protect the table). But for some reason, the concrete kept being a barrier to making them. I had seen tutorials for making leaf stepping stones with concrete and have been planning to do so all summer. …and then decided to try leaf casting with plaster. We started with a nature walk around the garden and the girls filled their buckets with leaves, pinecones, stones, crabapples, seed pods, flowers, peppers, seed heads, and okra.įirst we made playdough casts of the nature items… Here’s the gold-painted hosta leaf that I shared on Facebook and Google+ last night.Īfter our plaster casting with playdough the other day, we were inspired to try again with nature items. Leaf casting with plaster of Paris turns out to be as easy as playdough casting. ![]()
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