Family Workshop: Thumb Cast Pencil Tops

Free to members or with admission to the sculpture garden. Younger children should be accompanied by an adult.

Casting is a traditional fabrication method, and it was used to make many of the bronze sculptures at Lynden. Try your hand--or your thumb--at creating a rubber mold that you will fill with plaster to make a cast copy of your thumb to place atop a pencil. A perfect tool for your “thumbnail” sketches!