3$ DIY Cast Cover

Remember that song about the monkeys jumping on the bed? Well, apparently they can do a bit more damage than just a bump on the head.

Cam fell off between the bed and the nightstand and broke his arm. We had to make an emergency call to Dad at work and go right to the ER. It was obviously broken. One of those "Arms are not supposed to bend that way" breaks you'd expect from a skateboard incident gone wrong...

After 6 hours at the ER, Cam got his own XRAY images and a brand new, generic, Emergency Room, boring white cast.

He. Was. Stoked.

I was not. How on earth do you keep a 4 year old who needs to stay away from water clean enough to rock a white cast? I knew we needed to cover it for a couple reasons.

1. Fiberglass casts are strong, light weight, and are as rough as sandpaper. Cam is running around scratching everything in sight. Including us!

2. White is boring.

3. Patterns are fun.

We did something simple. We headed to our local Walmart and I looked at all the adult tube socks. We found one that matched his super hero obsession  (Hello, Captain America).

We simply cut the toe off of the sock, keeping the stitching attached to the tube part and not the toe part.

Then we just slipped that sucker on. We didn't cut a thumb hole, because the velcro like fiber glass is keeping it in place just fine. And we can switch it out with fun patterns easily and still have his white cast easily available for fun signatures.

Be sure to keep the sock OFF the skin of the arm. You don't want to restrict blood flow to a healing arm. Keep the sock only on the cast.

I've seen other tutorials that use nylons or adult tights to cover a cast. They wraped it in a bandage to prevent it from tearing on the fiberglass, but the sock was just the perfect size for a 4 year old and snagging wasn't an issue.

Hopefully, Captain America heals quickly and doesn't use his super hero skills to jump any far distances in the future.

(But who am I kidding).