- Today we're gonna show you how to make
these really cool personalized paw print ornaments
for your Christmas tree.
I'm Ken
- I'm Kayl
- Welcome back to McCann Dogs.
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Now let's get right into the ingredients of this
and first thing's first, we need some modeling clay.
Now I really like this air-hardening modeling clay,
you can get it at any local craft store.
I'll include a link to the Amazon affiliate link
in the description down below so that you can get it
really easily, but I've chosen this modeling clay
because you can certainly use something
like the salt dough instead of this but they don't
last as long.
You're gonna get a lot more longevity
out of this modeling clay.
And you're gonna need a rolling pin
'cause we're gonna flatten out this modeling clay
so that it's maybe a quarter of an inch thick,
a little closer to a half, when we do the dog's prints
on there and we're gonna need something
to make sure it's nice and flat.
Next up you're gonna need cookie cutters
and certainly you can get different sized cookie cutters
for different sized dogs.
I've got a four-inch here that'll be really big
for all our big dogs and then I've got
a three-inch here that will be great for a dog
like Hippy Shake, it'll be nice to have
a couple varieties of sizes for them.
Then you're gonna need some small brushes.
We're gonna be using a tacky glue.
Once the ornament has dried, we're gonna put this glue
in the paw print itself and we need to apply it
with these small brushes so just get some inexpensive,
small brushes that you can throw away
because the glue will really do a number on then.
And last but not least is some glitter.
Now if you're anything like us,
your dog has a color, so we have seven dogs
and each dog has their own color.
Deegan has red, Mac has brown, Funky has purple,
Grand has black, Rad has green, Hippy Shake has pink,
and Beeline has yellow.
So we needed to get quite an assortment of these
sparkles, there are all kinds of different colors here,
you can see the thing here and I'll post a link to this
in the description as well below but we have
several ornaments to make so let's get right to it.
So let's flatten out our modeling clay here
and it can be tough to work with,
it really doesn't move very easily
but that's sort of the benefit of it
because it is pretty dense and when we get
our shape cut out and when we have our dogs'
footprint imprinted on it, it's going to last
a really long time and that's sort of the benefit,
again, of using this modeling clay.
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Now we're gonna wanna make the most of this clay
and we flattened it out.
You can see how thick it is, it's maybe just a little bit
over a quarter of an inch and then we need
a little bit of space to press or a little bit of depth
to press the dog's paw into it
so don't make it too thin
but we're gonna try to make the most of this
so we're gonna pick a corner.
And we're gonna work our clay around that.
And we'll do our absolute best to not damage the shape.
But I think that's a good size and shape
for Hippy Shake.
Now do yourself a favor, if you have multiple dogs,
you're gonna wanna set up like maybe a sheet of paper
that you can, after you press the dog's paw in,
you can set it there.
We have eight different ornaments ready
to get the paw impressions on them and we don't
wanna mix them up.
It's gonna be impossible to tell them
other than maybe Hippy Shake's and Bee and Funky,
but it's gonna be impossible to tell them apart after
so make sure you set up somewhere that you can
keep track of whose paw print is whose while you leave
them out to dry.
- When you get your circle, you may notice
that one of the sides is a bit more smooth
than the other so try to pick the smoothest side
for the dog's paw to go on since that's the one
that's gonna be presented when it's on your tree.
So we're gonna do a joint effort here.
Ken's gonna do the dog holding
and I'm gonna do the paw pressing.
- We've got Grand Slam here, Grand Slam is first up.
- He looks very impressed by this.
You're okay buddy.
So put it right in the middle,
press down,
and you wanna get a good impression so you kinda
have to make sure you put a little bit of pressure
on all the parts of the paw
so that it's a nice, even print.
What do you think there, Bean?
You look super impressed.
(laughs)
He's such a good boy,
okay, I think that might be good.
- [Ken] Okay, straight off.
- Ooh, look at that, perfect!
- Good job, buddy.
- Not too shabby. - That's one down.
- That's like a perfect print.
- Yeah, so here's the thing,
now that we have his paw impression on there,
we need to make a little hole so that we can
put some baler twine or ribbon or string or something
through the top of the ornament,
so it's at this point that you wanna grab
maybe a little straw or we can always use,
we've got the brushes that we're going to use
to put the sparkles in the ornament.
- They're actually the perfect width
- Yeah - I think for this.
- We can use the end of the paintbrush to do that.
- [Kayl] Make sure you leave enough room
at the top that it's like a nice
distance for when you put your string through.
- Yeah, that's a good point, if you make it too thin,
it's gonna fall.
- And make sure it goes all the way through.
You spin it around, it'll be smooth.
Okay.
- Very cool.
- One down, seven to go. - Who's next?
- Radzy.
- It's really helpful if you have someone
to hold the dogs but it's not absolutely necessary.
We're doing this like the paw imprint
on the counter so that you guys can see it better
but you might be able to do it on the floor
just as easy
- Maybe you don't wanna put your dog on the counter.
- Yeah, yeah.
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We've gotta give these about 24 hours to set up
and dry so we're gonna do that.
If you're using some other type of modeling clay,
check the directions on the package.
That way you'll know that it's safe enough
to put some glue on but we're gonna let these guys dry
so we'll see you in 24 hours.
Alright, about 36 hours have passed
and our ornaments have hardened up quite a bit.
It took a little while for them to dry up
where the actual paw prints were so check there first,
anywhere that you've compressed that clay
is gonna dry a little bit more slowly
but you may notice that there's an eighth ornament
out here and that's for Kayl's sister, 8-Ball,
and that's why we have an eighth ornament,
in case you were wondering why, but now it's time
to add the glitter to the paw prints.
Now we've chosen to use a baking sheet
for this because we're gonna add glitter to each one
of the ornaments and we don't want glitter all over
our kitchen after, at the end of this project
so now it's time to add our glue.
So anybody that's worked with glitter
for a project knows that if you're using glitter,
you're probably gonna have it on you for the next
three and a half weeks and you'll be finding
like glittery things everywhere.
- I feel like it's okay for me to say
that I have glitter but what's gonna be your excuse?
- Yeah, it's gonna be weird if I go to the fire hall
and I'm covered in glitter.
But the way that we're gonna stick this glitter
to our ornaments is by putting just a little drop of glue
in the center of the places where we want
the glitter to stick
and then we're gonna use our brushes to spread it out.
Two down, six more to go.
And then next thing we need to do is put a little
ribbon on, a little piece of ribbon.
Kayl I'm gonna need you to find this for me.
So that we can hang it on the tree.
Now we did, make sure that you're careful with the glitter,
I mean it will go everywhere
but if you're careful about making sure
that you do it in something like a baking sheet,
or baking tray, cookie sheet, it's not gonna go
all over the place 'cause we did struggle a little bit
with the glitter all over us
as we were preparing these things.
- I got to go teach today - Yeah
- In glittery shirts - Yeah
- So if you wanna make it a little bit more flashy looking
you can leave some of the ribbon left over
after your knot and then run your scissors up it
to make it more like curly.
- More twirly.
- Twirly and curly, yeah, so if you, kind of like KP's fur.
- So we hope that you have an opportunity
to make one of these paw print ornaments
for your dog, we had a lot of fun and we're really
happy with how they turned out and we're really excited
to put them up on the tree.
- Yeah, me too.
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