Child to love Handprints Tower of Time Kit for
Price: $22.99
Price: $22.99
The perfect gift for a new parent Blue! Treasures handprint small child again. Handprint kit includes a metal-resistant and safe, non-toxic plaster mix. Prepare the plaster is easy – just mix and pour, then press your hand into the mold. The set includes 5 boxes for the first five years 4 to 6 inches in diameter. Complete with decorative ribbon and instructions.
- Tower of Time, Handprint Kits for the first five years
- Great baby shower gift
- Includes nontoxic plaster, instructions and decorative ribbon
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Such a great keepsake idea! Being able to duplicate my daughter’s little handprint for her first 5 years is wonderful and will definitely be something I can look back on and also share with her when she’s older. I only give it 4 stars because I found the plaster to be very difficult to work with. I knew going into it it’d be messy but trying to get a good handprint took a LONG time. The instructions say once you pour the plaster into the tin to immediately attempt an imprint…good luck with that! I didn’t even use all the plaster (per a recommendation in the directions) and it was still a very sticky consistency. I tried several times to imprint my daughter’s hand but each time I pulled her hand away, the mixture came with it and I was left with a horrible elevated blob. Ready to give up, and tired of pushing her little hand into the mess over and over, then washing her hand over and over, I ended up just letting the plaster-filled tin sit on the counter for about 20 minutes until it got firmer, almost like a damp clay. I pressed her hand in for one last attempt and it actually came out really nice! At least I’ll know what to expect when she turns 2 and we do it all over again. I would recommend this to everyone, but just be aware what you’re in for especially if you’ve never worked with plaster before.
A perfect baby or first birthday gift. I received two myself as gifts. I just finished one for my 5 year-old. The last handprint.
Perfect packaging, fast shipping.
This kit comes with five round tins with plastic bags containing pre-measured plaster of paris. For each tin, you mix a certain amount of water (1/4 cup for the 1 year tin) with most of the supplied plaster to achieve a “toothpaste like” consistency. Then you pour that into the tin, press your child’s hand in, and you’re supposed to wind up with a beautiful imprint to treasure.
Instead, when you follow the directions you wind up with a stick, blobby mess that could be your child’s handprint, or might be an interpretive sculpture of a lunar crater, or might just be what’s left in the bottom of a bucket of plaster after doing some wall repair. We tried doing what other reviewers suggested: repeatedly taking imprints as the plaster dried a bit; varying the initial consistency (taking the year 2 tin’s plaster supply after scraping out the quickly drying failure we achieved with the year 1 supply); and finally even oiling our child’s hand before the imprint. All attempts failed to produce anything other that an unpleasing, lumpy mess.
If you plan on using this kit, I suggest going to an art supply store first, getting some plaster of paris, and spending some time learning to work with it. I’m sure you’ll then be able to match the results pictured on the product’s web page. But then, if you do that, you don’t need this kit.
In sum, this product is worthless. Don’t buy it for yourself, and certainly don’t buy it as a gift.