Yes! I have done this. I made Jean Arp style sculpture. We used dish
detergent bottles to squeeze the plaster into the balloons. Be sure to were
something old when you do this......the balloons can pop off the bottles.
LOL at Judy! Plaster splashes all over her--and for the WLIO TV News segment
to boot....but the sculptures came out super! Each student made three that
they clustered in some interesting way. They loved molding the warm plaster
inside the balloon. We mounted them onto wood bases with dowel rods (bases
painted black).
Good luck and let us know how your rocks turn out.
Judy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kimberly Hutts" <kimberly_hutts@yahoo.com>
To: "ArtsEdNet Talk" <artsednet@lists.pub.getty.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 3:43 PM
Subject: Plaster inside Balloons
> Hello everyone,
>
> I am trying to create artificial rocks with 4th grade
> students and thought that it would work out best if I
> could get plaster to set up inside of a balloon. The
> problem is that I can't think of a good way to get the
> plaster inside balloonslons to begin with. Does
> anyone know how to do this or have another suggestion
> that would require little class time?
