How to make a small handmade mirror with plasticine for children

Introduction: In ancient times, obsidian, gold, silver, crystal, copper, and bronze were used to make mirrors after grinding and polishing. In 3000 BC, Egypt had bronze mirrors used for makeup. In the 1st century AD, large mirrors that could reflect a person's whole body began to appear. In the Middle Ages, portable mirrors placed in a small box of ivory or precious metal were popular along with the comb. Playing with plasticine can improve your baby's creativity. Use the baby's own unique ideas to create a personalized and innocent sculpture DIY work, which can perfectly satisfy children's curiosity. Here is a children's colored clay, plasticine handmade method, and a mirror making tutorial to share with everyone, come and Let’s study!

Little knowledge about mirrors

The early stage of China’s slave society was in the Bronze Age. Through long-term bronze smelting practice, people understood the composition, properties and uses of alloys. relationship between them, and can manually control the proportion of copper, tin, and lead. It is recorded in the ancient book "Kao Gong Ji" that "gold has six proportions", that is, there are six ratios of alloys. Among them, the last one is: gold and half tin, which is called the Qi of Jiansui. ?It is the ratio used to make bronze mirrors. ?Jian? is a mirror, with a high tin content, because the copper mirror has a bright surface and silvery white luster, and it also needs casting properties to ensure a delicate pattern. Our ancestors made exquisite "translucent mirrors" more than 2,000 years ago, which can reflect the beautiful patterns behind the bronze mirror, thus arousing great excitement in the world. In order to solve the mystery of the "translucent mirror", scholars at home and abroad have spent hundreds of years conducting research and exploration. It was not until modern times that they discovered that this is because the mirror surface has slightly unequal curvature relative to the pattern on the back after manufacturing and processing. Reflection reflects the pattern on the back. This fully illustrates the superb mirror-making technology and profound understanding of light reflection characteristics in ancient China. In the ancient Greek and Roman times in Europe, a slightly convex polished metal disk was also used as a mirror. The non-reflective side was engraved with patterns. The earliest mirror was a hand mirror with a handle. By the 1st century AD, mirrors that could A large mirror that reflects the whole body. In the Middle Ages, hand mirrors were generally popular in Europe. They were usually silver or polished bronze mirrors. In the Middle Ages, small mirrors housed in exquisite ivory boxes or precious metal boxes became popular among women. A portable fashion item, metal-backed glass mirrors appeared at the turn of the 12th to 13th centuries, and by the Renaissance, Nuremberg and Venice had become famous mirrormaking centers. In the early 14th century, Venetians used tin foil and mercury to coat the back of glass to make mirrors, which looked very clear. In the 15th century, Nuremberg made convex lenses, which were coated with a layer of tin amalgam inside when making glass balls.