Customer Reviews

Skullduggery Eyewitness Kit Shark Casting Kit

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This shark kit has been the highlight of my son's (age 7) study of the undersea world. The instructions were easy to follow and the reward was almost instant! It takes just 30 minutes for the mold to initially "set" and just two more hours for it to be ready to paint. The information regarding sharks in the packet was very informative, causing my son to say "Wow, I didn't know that!" My son and I have really enjoyed this product!

Had fun making this kit with my daughter. She loves sharks. I measured the "ingredients" and she mixed. We read the booklet while the casting was setting. It was informative, but my know-it-all seemed to know what I was getting ready to read next. Very basic information she had heard before. She painted them up nicely and were ready to display within a week. The hammerhead was very large and there was not enough magnet provided to hold it up. We will include some type of hangar into the cast material next time. They are not for play and end up just being decorations.

This was great! My son LOVED it. Must have patience to wait for the plaster to dry, so have some "shark" learning in between. Be extra careful with the finished product. My son dropped one but, luckily, there were 3. Overall a fun project.

My son loved sitting with his grammy and makeing this. If you have the time as a parent of loved one get his product or one of the other casting items. It really means a lot to a kid when you take time out of your day to help them with an activity. Get This Item

My 7 year-old son received this as a Christmas gift, and he loves it. I mix the plaster and water and pour it into the mold, then after 40 minutes he paints it and displays the finished product. There are molds for three different types of sharks -hammerhead, thresher, and great white. There are also molds for three different sized sharks teeth. We've made models of each of them, and they've turned out great each time!

My 8 yo son is an animal lover. He loves sharks too. I bought this for him for Christmas and he loved being able to create his own shark and paint it. The shark's teeth were the coolest to him. I would recommend an adult help to mix the clay because it sets very fast.

I guess this isn't so much of a toy, as it is like a display piece. It is pretty much glass, so playing with it should either be done carefully, or with the knowledge that you might lose a fin or two.

The directions were really easy to follow. Everything turned out great with little to no time. We didn't use the magnets, but those are a really neat idea for using your new sharks.

My son is 5 and has been obsessed with sharks for years. This says ages 6+ but I just measured and poured and he mixed and painted. You have to mix the stuff in a disposable container (and you can't rinse it down the drain). It poured easily into the moulds and set quickly. We left in it for about an hour and then let them dry overnight before painting. The instruction book starts out with the directions and then has a few pages with information about each type of shark. At the end it says what color you should paint them if you want them realistic and how to mix the colors (although it only comes with white, black, and blue). It looks like there are 2 white paints but one of them has a "GL" on top - I didn't see the part in the instructions that said that was glue until after I painted it over the top of the sharks thinking it was glaze. Actually, the glue gives the paint a great shine! We just put on the magnets and the sharks are on our fridge now - they look great! I used super glue for the magnets instead of the glue provided because I wanted to be sure they wouldn't fall off. We did make the teeth but the great white tooth fell and broke and the thresher tooth broke when it dropped out of the mould. These are definitely fragile and not for play but are perfect decoration for the fridge or a magnetic chalkboard.

I got this as a gift for my nephew for the holidays. He's totally ignored it in order to remain glued to his nintendo DS. The kit seems like it will be okay when he uses it, though the contents seem to be nothing special. I'll try to pick better next year.