How Bronze Castings Can Commemorate Childhood Landmarks

Bronze hand casting can be a great way to commemorate a newborn baby’s infancy, but while that may be a treasured time, proud parents will have many more to celebrate.

Indeed, as September approaches, parents across the country will be looking forward to the new school year, when they can take the now customary picture of children in the new school uniform before sending them in to start the new academic term. For some, this will be particularly significant as a child starts school for the first time.

This is a growing tradition, and many parents look for novel ways to make the picture look particularly special, but could this occasion also be marked by getting a bronze cast of the young hands that will soon be grasping pencils and paintbrushes in primary school?

With this in mind, you might consider whether having annual casts of their hands might be a great idea.

Just as many parents will take photos at key life events such as starting school, as well as birthdays, so you could mark these with a cast. In years to come, you can compare hand sizes at different ages in the same way one might compare photos taken at different times.

Among the amazing things about kids growing up is how quickly it happens. They grow at an average of an inch a month for the first six months and then half an inch for the rest of the first year. Everything else grows too, so a cast of a one-year-old’s hands can be notably larger than when they are a newborn.

These will be casts you can treasure, whether based around birthdays, significant dates like starting pre-school or primary school, or other events such as a christening. With multiple casts, you can commemorate these landmarks in your child’s life with more than just photographs.