Questions about painting and decorating doc bands

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I read some of your suggestions about painting a doc band with acrylic

paint (works great!) and about how you should spray it with a varnish

spray or use nail polish to make stickers stick. Thanks so much for

your advice! I had a few questions though:

Will spraying with varnish make paint permanent? I painted but didnt

get around to spraying yet. The paint started to peel and I got

worried that he'd swallow a paint chip and so I peeled it all off. I

think spraying it will fix the peeling, but will it still make it

possible to peel off the paint?

Can you spray with varnish right away or do you have to wait a few

days like the can recommends?

Does spraying with varnish cause dangerous fumes for when you put the

helmet back on?

Are there stickers that mold better to the shape of the helmet? The

paper stickers we bought were awful.

Thanks!

Aimee

[Guest guest]

I dont know about paint cause i never painted mine but the smaller the sticker the better...i found

From: aimeedavid2006 <aimeedavid2006@...>Subject: Questions about painting and decorating doc bandsPlagiocephaly Date: Friday, November 7, 2008, 8:05 PM

I read some of your suggestions about painting a doc band with acrylicpaint (works great!) and about how you should spray it with a varnishspray or use nail polish to make stickers stick. Thanks so much foryour advice! I had a few questions though: Will spraying with varnish make paint permanent? I painted but didntget around to spraying yet. The paint started to peel and I gotworried that he'd swallow a paint chip and so I peeled it all off. Ithink spraying it will fix the peeling, but will it still make itpossible to peel off the paint? Can you spray with varnish right away or do you have to wait a fewdays like the can recommends?Does spraying with varnish cause dangerous fumes for when you put thehelmet back on?Are there stickers that mold better to the shape of the helmet? Thepaper stickers we bought were awful.

Thanks!Aimee

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I painted the varnish on because I didn't want to risk the spray getting on the foam inside. I sanded, painted with acrylic, and varnished and I still have to repair chips. I find them mostly in the morning. He must be bumping it against the crib at night. Also, if he drools at all, and the helmet lays in the wet spot the paint comes off. My son has only had his helmet for a week and a half, and I've repaired the chips twice! Not sure what I'm doing wrong. So, the varnish won't make the paint permanent. When my son's get chipped, it peals right off.

Kim

Questions about painting and decorating doc bands

Plagiocephaly

Date: Friday, November 7, 2008, 8:05 PM

I read some of your suggestions about painting a doc band with acrylic

paint (works great!) and about how you should spray it with a varnish

spray or use nail polish to make stickers stick. Thanks so much for

your advice! I had a few questions though:

Will spraying with varnish make paint permanent? I painted but didnt

get around to spraying yet. The paint started to peel and I got

worried that he'd swallow a paint chip and so I peeled it all off. I

think spraying it will fix the peeling, but will it still make it

possible to peel off the paint?

Can you spray with varnish right away or do you have to wait a few

days like the can recommends?

Does spraying with varnish cause dangerous fumes for when you put the

helmet back on?

Are there stickers that mold better to the shape of the helmet? The

paper stickers we bought were awful.

Thanks!

Aimee

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Hi Aimee--

I decorated my LO's band last night, so I can tell you what I did--I

didn't use varnish. Based on advice that was posted on the board, I

painted 3 coats of the acrylic paint, added vinal stickers then put 2

coats of Modge Podge (bought at s) over everything. The mom

that posted said that it lasts for several weeks--minus a few chips--

then you can peel it all off again in almost one piece and begin

again. My goal is to try to do another layer of Modge Podge from time

to time in hopes of preventing chips/peeling. My thought is that it

might be like nail polish--if you keep a coat of clear over, the

paint job lasts longer. If you go with modge podge, don't freak out

when you see all the white--it absorbs right it as it drys.

As far as stickers go, that was my biggest challange last night. I

think if you use larger stickers, the bubbles are to be expected. In

fact I looked really closely at photos in the CT caldnar when I was

freaking out about my bubbles, and say that their helmets had some

bubbles in their stickers as well. I do think that the Vinal type

might hide those bubbles a bit better.

Good Luck--

H.

Merrick, 4-months, 11mm plagio, almost 24 hours with DOC band

>

> I read some of your suggestions about painting a doc band with

acrylic

> paint (works great!) and about how you should spray it with a

varnish

> spray or use nail polish to make stickers stick. Thanks so much for

> your advice! I had a few questions though:

>

> Will spraying with varnish make paint permanent? I painted but

didnt

> get around to spraying yet. The paint started to peel and I got

> worried that he'd swallow a paint chip and so I peeled it all off. I

> think spraying it will fix the peeling, but will it still make it

> possible to peel off the paint?

>

> Can you spray with varnish right away or do you have to wait a few

> days like the can recommends?

>

> Does spraying with varnish cause dangerous fumes for when you put

the

> helmet back on?

>

> Are there stickers that mold better to the shape of the helmet? The

> paper stickers we bought were awful.

>

> Thanks!

>

> Aimee

>

[Guest guest]

I would NOT recommend sanding the bands, it messes with the

strength/integrity of the plastic. Please ask your ortho/therapist

before doing so.

I would also not recommend spraying with varnish either. You should

avoid getting anything on the foam and I think it would be hard not

to if you're using a spray can. Plus I'd be concerned about the

smell of something as strong as an aerosol of any kind. Mod Podge

works just fine. It goes on like a layer of glue, dries clear, and

you can get it in gloss or matte finish. I would paint, sticker and

mod podge all at one time, the whole process took me about an hour

and a half, which wasn't too bad. I used an oscillating fan to help

dry between coats, and I would leave the band off for shorter

periods the day before and after, to make up the extra time out of

it on paint days. I would find chips in the morning from him

knocking against the crib, or the paint would peel back a little

from getting wet. I changed his paint job every 3 weeks. With 4 or

so layers of paint and 3 or so layers of mod podge, you can peel it

all off really easily and start over whenever you want.

Jake-2 (DOCBand Grad 9/19/08)

Jordan-4.5

>

>

> From: aimeedavid2006 <aimeedavid2006@...>

> Subject: Questions about painting and decorating doc bands

> Plagiocephaly

> Date: Friday, November 7, 2008, 8:05 PM

>

>

>

>

> I read some of your suggestions about painting a doc band with

acrylic

> paint (works great!) and about how you should spray it with a

varnish

> spray or use nail polish to make stickers stick. Thanks so much for

> your advice! I had a few questions though:

>

> Will spraying with varnish make paint permanent? I painted but

didnt

> get around to spraying yet. The paint started to peel and I got

> worried that he'd swallow a paint chip and so I peeled it all off.

I

> think spraying it will fix the peeling, but will it still make it

> possible to peel off the paint?

>

> Can you spray with varnish right away or do you have to wait a few

> days like the can recommends?

>

> Does spraying with varnish cause dangerous fumes for when you put

the

> helmet back on?

>

> Are there stickers that mold better to the shape of the helmet? The

> paper stickers we bought were awful.

>

> Thanks!

>

> Aimee

>

[Guest guest]

I used Modge Podge as well...

There's a large round circle sticker (Steelers) that we used - my

husband took and exacto knife and " scored " the sticker in two places

from the center to the edge to get it to lay flat - you can't tell

unless you look really closely.

I haven't had any chipping issues - but if I'm not careful when I

scrub the inside with alcohol and the alcohol gets on the outside of

the band it makes the Modge Podge sticky.

I'd do a layer of paint, a layer of Modge Podge, then stickers, then

another layer of Modge Podge. I put the stickers on over the paint

without sealing with Modge Podge the first time and when I tried to

reposition the sticker it pulled up all of the paint and I had to

repaint. I was able to do it the first night my son had the band and

wasn't sleeping in it yet, and it was totally dry the next morning.

Good luck!!!

> >

> >

> > From: aimeedavid2006 <aimeedavid2006@>

> > Subject: Questions about painting and decorating doc

bands

> > Plagiocephaly

> > Date: Friday, November 7, 2008, 8:05 PM

> >

> >

> >

> >

> > I read some of your suggestions about painting a doc band with

> acrylic

> > paint (works great!) and about how you should spray it with a

> varnish

> > spray or use nail polish to make stickers stick. Thanks so much

for

> > your advice! I had a few questions though:

> >

> > Will spraying with varnish make paint permanent? I painted but

> didnt

> > get around to spraying yet. The paint started to peel and I got

> > worried that he'd swallow a paint chip and so I peeled it all

off.

> I

> > think spraying it will fix the peeling, but will it still make it

> > possible to peel off the paint?

> >

> > Can you spray with varnish right away or do you have to wait a few

> > days like the can recommends?

> >

> > Does spraying with varnish cause dangerous fumes for when you put

> the

> > helmet back on?

> >

> > Are there stickers that mold better to the shape of the helmet?

The

> > paper stickers we bought were awful.

> >

> > Thanks!

> >

> > Aimee

> >

>

[Guest guest]

Great advice, . Thanks!

Kim

Mom to Jimmmy 9m

STAR band 1 week

Questions about painting and decorating doc bands

> Plagiocephaly

> Date: Friday, November 7, 2008, 8:05 PM

>

>

>

>

> I read some of your suggestions about painting a doc band with

acrylic

> paint (works great!) and about how you should spray it with a

varnish

> spray or use nail polish to make stickers stick. Thanks so much for

> your advice! I had a few questions though:

>

> Will spraying with varnish make paint permanent? I painted but

didnt

> get around to spraying yet. The paint started to peel and I got

> worried that he'd swallow a paint chip and so I peeled it all off.

I

> think spraying it will fix the peeling, but will it still make it

> possible to peel off the paint?

>

> Can you spray with varnish right away or do you have to wait a few

> days like the can recommends?

>

> Does spraying with varnish cause dangerous fumes for when you put

the

> helmet back on?

>

> Are there stickers that mold better to the shape of the helmet? The

> paper stickers we bought were awful.

>

> Thanks!

>

> Aimee

>

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