Baby Imprint

What is baby imprint?

Baby imprints are popular but what exactly are they? Well! They are the impressions of the infant’s hands and feet. These impressions make great keep sakes and can often become family heirlooms. They are a priceless memory that lasts forever. Capturing your baby imprint is a wonderful thing to do. You can use the casts for making prints of the baby imprint on greeting cards that you can send to all your relatives and friends.

Ways to make baby imprint: baby imprint is done in plaster of Paris, or clay casts or ink prints. If you want to do them at home you can purchase a kit. This will give you instructions and some plaster of Paris to make your baby imprint. Before you make your impressions try to rub a little oil on the foot or hand of your infant. This will prevent the plaster of Paris from sticking and will also make a cleaner impression. The baby imprint kits range from $7 to $50. You can take one every year and keep it in a small labeled container. In this way you have a memorable record of your infant’s growth.

Where to get baby imprint and kits?

You can get a baby imprint online. There are a lot of websites that have various kits and will offer them for casts or impressions. It is fun and simple to use one of these kits to make your very own baby imprint.

You can also go and get clay baby imprint done, from professionals. You will find lots of these services advertising online and in the yellow pages. You will get a lovely ceramic baby imprint done within a frame. It will be glazed and fired so that it will virtually last for ever. You can either hang it on a wall or keep it on your dresser. If you want you can also add a photo to really personalize your baby imprint and capture a moment in time.

One of the nicest ways of preserving your baby imprint is in a special book. You can create headings on each of the baby imprint and make them every year. This will be a unique record of your infant’s growth and show how they have changed over the years.

As you can see there are many reasons for having baby imprint done for our infant. An infant grows so quickly that every moment is fleeting. Why not capture one of these elusive moments with baby imprint?