November 13, 2006

Play-Doh 50th Anniversary Rainbow Pack-She Says

Peter wrote about the Play-Doh 50th Anniversary Rainbow Pack last Thursday, and I wanted to give my opinion on this product. It seems like every child loves play-doh more than anything in the world. They are always so excited to receive it, and it's all they want to play with. At least, that's what I've seen from my experiences with young children.

I always got the impression that the parents felt quite differently though. Doesn't it get into everything? Isn't it a pain to clean up? I've been dreading the play-doh stage for these reasons. But another silly reason is that I'm a little OCD sometimes, and I honestly cannot stand to see the colors mushed together. Even when I was little I was this way. I have a memory of me sitting in the living room (maybe with newspaper under me so I didn't get it in the rug) only playing with one color so that they didn't all get combined to the point of not being able to separate them. I just see 50 colors as stressful. I think it would be so easy to end up with a big pile of brown play-doh after a day of playing. So while this product is neat, I think I'll be giving Andy a four pack of play-doh for now.