BABY-PRINTS

Creating a Baby-Print is magic. Each Baby-Print is a work of art made from the 4 elements: Earth, fire, water, and air. A Baby-Print transcends through several states of matter during its creation. First it is a solid in the form of an impression made of Earth (Play-doh or clay). When warm molten wax is poured into the impression, the Baby-Print becomes the liquid "reverse" of the impression. The wax cools, and the Baby-Print is solid once again. The new wax pattern is used in a sand mold to create the cavity into which the molten metal will be poured. When the wax pattern is removed from the sand mold, the Baby-Print is then just a cavity of air (gas) in the sand mold surrounded by earth and water. Fire is used to heat the metal to its molten state at about 2000° F. The molten metal is poured like water into the sand mold and the Baby-Print is liquid once again, if only for a few seconds. Gases escape through the sand as the liquid metal rapidly cools, and the Baby-Print becomes a..

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