Pearhead Pawprints Dog & Cat Hanging Keepsake

I’ve used several paw print kits like this before, all different brands, and I’ve also worked with air dry clay with my kids on many occasions, but the material included with this kit was very weird and did not work well. The kit was in our house at room temperature for three days before we worked with it . First of all, you were supposed to knead the clay, and I could not get it to move, no matter how hard I pushed on it. Then, when I tried to roll it out, it wouldn’t get any bigger. No matter how hard I pushed. My son and my daughter tried, and they couldn’t get it to move either. In addition, rolling it seemed to cause a kind of pebbling on the surface as ifthe dough was tearing in little places all over. The instructions say to roll it into smooth, but the more we rolled it, the more pebbled it became! I figured I would try to work with it anyway, and I took my most complacent cat, wet his paw, and then pushed it in to the clay. There was literally no impression. I tried again and pushed harder, and there was a very slight indentation from his top toe beans, but nothing from the main pad and it didn’t look anything like a paw print. I returned this item. The photo shows how rippled and pebbled the surface became when we rolled it.

Sorry to say this product didn’t work for us and we’ll be returning it.

I was happy overall with the product and instructions. As others mentioned, there’s enough for two paw prints. (Mine were Boston Terriers). I found that rolling the putty in a ball, then rolling it out works best. Also, l had better results using a plastic drinking glass as a rolling pin rather than the tube included that was recommended. It was too easy to have the surface wavy with the tube. The product is very, very light weight and somewhat fragile when dry, as compared to the paw prints l received when my dogs crossed the rainbow bridge. These reasons were why l gave the product 4 rather than 5 stars. Still would recommend buying. It’s easy to use, easy to redo several times when you are using it and the dogs’ paws are relatively clean, although l do recommend cleaning their paws afterwards to remove any possible chemical residue.