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Turn your pregnancy into art with an all natural pregnancy art kit. Art Bellies Pregnancy Art Kits instantly turn expecting families into modern-day Picassos. Using only the materials provided in the kit and the silhouette of mom-to-be and her growing belly, anyone can create life-size portraits worthy of being displayed in the living room, nursery, home office or even the local art gallery. This is a do-it-yourself project that is simple, fun, and easy to use. No artistic background is needed. Creating a print takes less than 15 minutes and there is no messy clean up to worry about. Art Bellies is not about painting on your belly and its not about belly casting. It is about making life-sized artistic portraits of pregnancy by tracing the silhouette of the growing belly onto handmade papers with Japanese calligraphy ink. It truly is a simple and easy way to turn pregnancy into art. Each kit comes with 1 sheet of colored handmade paper, 2 sheets of white handmade paper, 6 practice sheets of paper, 2 calligraphy brushes, Japanese calligraphy ink, 2 packets of natural earthen pigments, a painting dish, push pins and a full instruction booklet. All the materials are of the highest quality and everything is all-natural and fetus friendly. More about our handmade art papers: From time immemorial, Lokta paper has been handmade in Nepal from the bark of Daphne Papyracea. These plants are sustainably harvested in the Nepalese forests between the altitudes of 6500 ft. to 9500 ft. Lokta production does not affect Nepal's fragile forest ecology. Traditional Asian paper often referred to as rice paper is not made from rice fibers at all. It is made from the versatile mulberry tree, Broussonetia Papyrifera,-á varieties of which are also used for feeding silkworms. The mulberry tree grows wild all over the Northern Thai forest and lowland areas - and Thai artisans continue to produce handmade paper using the same technique that they have done for centuries. More about ground ochres and minerals: Ochres and minerals have been used as pigments since prehistoric times well before anyone learned to manufacture artificial pigments. In Earth Pigments: The Artists Oldest Paintbox, Carmi Weingrod wrote, Thousands of years before the first recorded paintings, cave dwellers used colors dug up from the earth to adorn their bodies, clothing and implements to enhance their living quarters. These practices were closely tied to the cultural and religious rituals that were an integral part of the cave dwellers daily life. Minimize