Fathers day. Making fingerprint keyrings. I need help! Please!

[BrightSparkles]

I used a recipe to make a dough from pinterest that you then bake and paint. FAIL!

I'm trying to make a fingerprint keyring for DH for fathers day. I'm not sure what else to try. Has anyone made these kinds of things? What did you use? How did you do it?
I currently have 6 attempts here all of them wrong.
has anyone used clay to do it??

[LimeSlice]

I did the footprint dough...what happened? Maybe I can help with that No idea about key rings though, sorry.

[Pholi]

Never with a home-made clay, only with Fimo, available from craft shops.

[BrightSparkles]

I did the footprint dough...what happened? Maybe I can help with that No idea about key rings though, sorry.

It would be the same thing LS just in a keyring size i'll google the recipie and see what i find.

[LimeSlice]

This is the recipe I used...footprint dough.jpg I did need to bake it about twice as long as it says though for it to harden properly. (It is FAHRENHEIT, not celcius too)

[LuluHB]

thanks ladies - there's FD sorted.

Lime - did you paint after baking and if so, what sort of paint?

[LimeSlice]

Lulu - no, I actually used a gel food colouring when I made the dough, the girls chose yellow.

ETA: I also used a pointy wine bottle stopper to put two holes in it before we baked it, for a ribbon to go in after for hanging.

[LuluHB]

How thick do you roll the dough out to? I think I've made them too thin

[LimeSlice]

Probably about 2cm?

[LuluHB]

Bugger!!! Just as well i still have a couple of days to go

[Jellyfish]

We made some of these today for father's day and then "painted" them by using tissue paper to blot on food dye. Worked perfectly and really happy with how they turned out!