Sculpting with polyurethane foam

We're big fans of Flinn Scientific.

By we I mean the teachers of the summer teacher camps because Flinn cuts us a slight discount with our ordering for the camps, but I've been a Flinn fan for far longer than my involvement in the ASM program. Flinn is a company that provides outstanding service to teachers, offering free workshops on safety and teaching around the country as well as at NSTA and ACS conferences.

Ok, enough gushing, to the material science stuff.

The two-part foams that we use in our summer workshops actually comes from IASCO (the flexible foam is FF-5Q and the rigid foam is RF-4CFCQ in their catalog), but Flinn does sell the rigid foam as C0335.

The video above is neat because it shows the more artsy applications, turning the foam into cute creatures with the addition of googly eyes and pipe cleaners. I also like the giant tower of foam that's behind the presenter. Anybody wanna make me one of those?