Pawprint

The Pawprint, also spelled as "Paw Print", is an object that Blue's left paw has.

Description

The pawprint is among the most iconic and most important part of the show. It symbolizes the clues for every episode.

Blue starts the game of Blue's Clues by placing a pawprint on the screen, and then the host sings We Are Gonna Play Blue's Clues, and then says "Blue's pawprint will be on the clues, Blue's Clues". Afterwards, the pawprint would be clean off so the game can start.

At times, some pawprints have been shown to be capable of self-movement and sometimes sentience and might even communication in a form of squeaking.

Looks

The paw print mainly consists of a large metacarpal pad (palm) with 4 digital pads (toes).

Usually, pawprint's color is a blue color.

However, some episodes have different colors. In "Nurture!" the paw print for the 3rd clue (Turquoise) is purple (likely due to an error). In "Art Appreciation", when Steve had an inspiration to design he pawprint, he uses the paintbrush to color the pawprint, in different colors. In "Prehistoric Blue", the colors were changing (as with the 3rd clue, with the colors that were green, red, and orange (The latter was sometimes yellow).

In "Imagine Nation", when Steve tried to think about this pawprint, he imagined that the pawprint were turned into turtles.

Magenta and Green Puppy have their own paw prints shown in "Blue's Big Musical" that come in magenta and green respectively.

A sparkly gold version of the paw print called the Gold Pawprint appears in "Meet Blue's Baby Brother". Sprinkles' pawprint is colored yellow, purple, orange, pink, and blue.

In Blue's Clues & You!, the paw print is more of a sparkly sky blue color with more 3-dimensional edges. Magenta's pawprint in this series is just like Blue's but in a magenta color.

A rainbow version of the paw print appears in “Rainbow Puppy's Skidoo Adventure”.

In Blue's Big City Adventure, the paw print regains its original blue color, but retains its reboot sparkles.

In Blue Goes Green, the paw print regains its original blue color, but It Changes From blue to green .

Appearances

The paw print appears in about every episode of Blue's Clues (including The Legend of the Blue Puppy, Skidoo Adventure and except Joe's Clues) and Blue's Clues & You!.

Paw prints were the 3rd clue in "Inventions", symbolized by three pawprints on a blueprint sheet, and the first clue in Blue's Big Holiday.

Trivia

• Multiple paw prints were placed on clues in some episodes of Season 1 and Season 2 but starting with What Time Is It for Blue?, only a single paw print is placed for each clue in later episodes, except What Does Blue Want to Make Put of Recycled Things?. However, the last time it was seen was Art Appreciation at the last clue (spoons).
• The paw print served as part of the logo for Blue's Clues and Blue's Clues & You! (in a sky blue color for the latter and sometimes the former).  
• From 2001-2004, the Nick Jr. logo associated with the original show was also shown as paw prints (the bigger "Nick" one is orange, and the smaller "Jr." one is blue).
  • Ironically, that was used on the spine of the covers for the "Rhymes and Riddles" DVD release from Dora the Explorer. This is an absolute error.
• The paw print was used to symbolize the show in some versions of the Coming Up Next bumpers for Blue's Clues on Noggin from 2000-2002.
• When Blue leaves her pawprint on the screen to start the game, if one were to listen closely as she is running up to the screen before making the pawprint, she appears to be saying (or barking) what the answer is (one of the most noticable occurances of this is in Numbers Everywhere (one-hundred)).

Gallery

Blue and Magenta's Pawprints Up on the screen.

Magenta and Green Puppy's Pawprints.

Pawprint being blown away

The first clue shown in the promo for Blue's Big Pajama Party.

The second clue shown in the other promo for Blue's Big Pajama Party.

The pawprint shown exclusively in the intro of the South Korean version of Blue's Clues.

Variants of the pawprint

Blue's Pawprint (Original)

Blue's Pawprint (Reboot)

Golden Pawprint

Magenta's Pawprint (Original)

Rainbow Pawprint (from Art Appreciation)

Rainbow Pawprint with Glitter

Blue's Pawprint Turns From Blue To Green

Audio Samples