Homemade Plaster Puzzles
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Do you want to make a simple, homemade puzzle toy for your little ones? Â I made these homemade plaster puzzles with Plaster of Paris and recycled baby food containers. Â That’s it! Easy-peasy!
 How to Make the Homemade Plaster Puzzles:
To make these plaster puzzles, just mix up the plaster according to the box. Â I did it a little thicker than the directions said to make sure I got a good impression of our toys. I tried adding in a little food coloring to the plaster while it was wet, but it just didn’t seem to take the color very well. Â (You could spray paint them after, though!) Â Choose some small toys to use for your impression in the plaster and a container to put it in.
Pour the plaster into a small container, you could use anything, really. Â The baby food containers were perfect for our little counting animal toys.
Then, while the plaster is wet, press the toy into the top carefully so it leaves a good impression in the plaster. You need to leave the toy in there for a little while until it sets up partially-Â not until it dries completely or it may be pretty stuck!
Let the plaster dry completely- this takes several hours. Then let your kids play away with their plaster puzzles! Â They turned out great & were perfect for my toddler to do on his own!
These homemade puzzles were really a hit!
This is such a great idea! I love how the imprints turned out. I am going to pin this post.
What cleverness! I am pinning, too!
What a great idea — My son would love this 🙂
I LOVE this idea. You could do this with favorite toy! I will definitely be trying this. My little guy would love this being made from his favorite tractors.
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This is great idea! I love that it can incorporate favorite toys and objets, too!
So cool. I bought plaster of paris to make hand prints and then read that it got hot so not to use it on skin. I haven’t known what to do with it but now I do! Thanks!
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What a great idea! I’d love for you to link this up to Tot School Tuesday: http://seevanessacraft.com/2013/05/tot-school-tuesday-healthy-fruit-popsicle-recipe-fine-motor-skills/
I love this idea! I’ve pinned it!
I love these! What a great idea! Thanks for sharing at For the Kids Friday. I am featuring you at this week’s party! Woohoo!!!
featured you this week on kids co-op:-) http://frogsandsnailsandpuppydogtails-jaime.blogspot.com/2013/05/10-activities-boys-will-love-featured.html
This is really neat! My son would love this! Pinning! Thanks for linking up at Bee Crafty Kids!
What a great idea!! Thank you for sharing at Sharing Saturday!
Love these – you can use so any different toys {and theme ideas} for this!!
I have’nt seen anything from you before but I love the idea, unfortunately most of the children I work with are really into dinosaurs which would require a lot of the substance & when you’ve got a group of children that means an awful lot at a time.