How do I make the moai from the magazine?
Dr. dig responds: What you’ll need: • A work surface covered with newspaper – this can get pretty messy • Plaster of Paris (at least 3 cups worth of dry mixture) – available at art supply or hardware stores • Vermiculite (a non toxic potting soil found at hardware stores or garden centers) • An empty quart-size cardboard milk carton • An old plastic bucket and rubber spatula • a butter knife • White glue and paintbrush Okay, now you’re ready to get startd! Cover a worksurface with lots of newspaper. Rinse out milk carton and cut off the top with a pair of scissors. This will be your mold to cast your block of stone. In a plastic bucket, pour 3 cups vermiculite into 3 cups plaster of paris and 2 and 1/2 cups of water. Stir with rubber spatula until combination is well-mixed. Pour mixture into milk carton. After about an hour, the stone will be hard and ready to carve. Tear the milk carton away. Now in the issue of dig that you have lost, we published a pattern for the sketch that you sh
