Nothing to do? Go do something! The blog about doing things. For example, make acrylic shapes to hide at Easter. https://teveelvrijtijd.wordpress.com/2018/03/27/2479/
Do you remember that from when you were a little kid? When you went looking for Easter eggs, and your parents told you several times that you “really should look again.” Because the “Easter Bunny has probably hidden a few more.” Then your parents searched frantically for months for those last few eggs. Of course, those eggs were only found half a year later, while gardening, or because you stepped on them. Not before it was still recognizable as an egg: yellowed, smelling like a whole hallway full of ammonia and as soft as the cauliflower your grandma always cooked. You can prevent these kinds of problems by making your own acrylic resin eggs! It is an easy DIY, fun to make the day before Easter. Easy to do with small children, and it doesn’t leave any mess in your garden.
Step 1: Do you want to see my eggs?
I'm not really a craft hero, so I'd rather be lazy than tired. I bought a few wooden Easter eggs at Flying Tiger and decorated them with a glue gun. It looks a bit simple, but hey: as long as it's fun. This dummy will soon be the prototype for your resin egg.
Step 2: Making Alginate
Alginate smells a bit like that candy powder you used to buy for five cents at the swimming pool. If you add water to it (ratio water:powder is 4:1 or 3:1, depending on how you want it) the stuff also gets that wonderful chemical smell. Mix the water and the alginate powder with a whisk, preferably an electric one: you have to use it immediately, because it hardens within a few minutes. When the products are mixed together, it will turn a bright pink color. When you have stirred out the largest lumps, it is time to immerse your dummy. Stir the dummy through the mixture, to remove the air bubbles. After about 20 minutes your alginate gel will be hard, and will have turned gray again. 
Step 3: Remove Dummy
That gel is firmer than you think. Carefully pull the dummy out of the mold, and make sure you don't accidentally pull pieces of the gel with it. In the photo below, you can see that this didn't work. Too bad, you can file that away later. 
Step 4: Pouring Acrylic Resin
Making acrylic resin is a fine process: you mix powder with a liquid until a smooth mass is created. Add a few drops of dye to this mixture for a nicer result. Then pour the resin into the mold (I have both an alginate mold and two food-safe silicone molds available). After half an hour, the acrylic resin has hardened. The alginate mold is a mold that you can only use once. I removed the figure with a knife. 
Step 5: Hide it
In the end I made two egg figures, a chicken in an egg and a rabbit. In addition, I made a crab and a rabbit with a food-safe mold – from acrylic resin. It could also be made from chocolate, but of course I can't hide that in the garden... 
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