Hand & Foot Prints on a Belly Cast

Video Transcript

"In this clip I'm going to talk about, if you would like to apply hand prints or foot prints onto your completed belly cast, for decoration. On this particular belly, we have the child?s foot prints centered with the two big brothers up top, and the mom and the dad down below. It's best if you only use footprints on infants, with infants. If you try to get a hand print from an infant, once you paint it, they like to make a fist and you won't get a nice hand print. Typically we don't do hand prints until the child's about three. If you want to wait, you could always put a hand print, of this particular baby who was in this belly, on the inside, when they are old enough, so you will have that baby's foot prints on the outside and the hand print on the inside. This belly has, also, had all the stats and the names put on the inside of the belly, with paint. That is how you apply hand prints and foot prints to a belly casting."