Thanks to Play-Doh for sending along the fun kit!
Yesterday was a big day for one of America’s all-time favorite brands for kids. It was Play-Doh’s 60th birthday! So many generations have enjoyed squishing, rolling, and making new creations out of that awesome stuff that comes in the yellow can.
One of my favorite toys growing up was a Play-Doh ice cream and soda fountain shop I had as a child. I loved making ice cream with blueberries sprinkled on top for all of my dolls. 🙂
Now my own girls get to enjoy Play-Doh and it’s one of my favorite things to get to play with them.
I love to watch their little minds get busy with all sorts of ideas for creation. I love the fact that playing with Play-Doh can result in some serious art time, some entrepreneurial time (my girls love to “sell” what they make!) and some time getting to imagine different awesome careers (engineer and cupcake maker all in one? Sure!).
I also love watching them work on their motor skills and strengthening their little hands while they make different shapes and designs. You never quite know where a play-doh session will take you, and I love that open-ended nature of it.
We’ve been playing with the Cupcake Celebration kit since Play-Doh just had a big birthday to celebrate. It’s loads of fun and very nicely priced at $19.99. I thought perhaps your child might enjoy getting to do the exact same thing, so let’s have a giveaway, shall we?
Janine H says
My son loves Play doh, especially the Digging rigs series bc he loves trucks!
MARIA simon says
I HAVE 5 SISTERS SO WE USE TO MAKE EVERYTHING FROM HAMBURGERS TO CAKES 😉
Sand says
Currently, he’s too small to create anything butbhe likes the way it feels on his hands.
Lorri K says
I love the smell of it. We used to roll it everywhere and it would be tracked through the house on the bottoms of our feet. Mostly we made food items and played tea time.
Jill Myrick says
I loved Play-Doh as a kid but all we had were our hands to shape it or cookie cutters. My son loves making mini food such as burgers, hot dogs, fries etc with his and serving it to me on mini plates.
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Amy Deeter says
i wold play with Play Doh for hours as a kid. i would make pretend food a lot
Francine Anchondo says
I used to make food items with the playdough.
Rachel Freer says
My son likes to play with his minion play-doh haircutting toy.
Rosey says
We used to make Play Doh skate boards with the wheels and then put playdoh guys we made on them to roll them around. 🙂
Susan Chester says
My sister and I would make doll house furniture out of Play-Doh. Now my grandchildren play with it!
Laurie Emerson says
I used to make pretend meals especially for my pretend tea parties with my dolls using Play-Doh. My daughter does the same thing now as I did.
susan smoaks says
when i was a kid i would try to make a car with the playdoh, i loved playing with it. we always played at the table outside when we were using play-doh.
Carolyn Daley says
I don’t think my nephew has a play doh set yet, but I bet he’d love to make cars.
Lisa V. says
I just remember mixing the colors together to make various things.
Erica B. says
I used to make burgers.
Melissa Smith says
My 3 year old eats it…. 😀
Michelle Hill says
My younger brother and I would have contests and see who could make the best creation. We would have our older siblings judge us.
Amy H says
My daughter loves making animals with her Play Doh.
Sara Floyd says
My daughter makes balls and logs right now!
Connie Tillman says
I played with it one color at a time – but my little sisters used to mix it up.
My kids now love mixing it up, and forget to put the cap on it. DRIVES ME INSANE!!
Happy Bday Playdoh!
Wehaf says
I loved to make animals – I would have a whole menagerie sometimes!
Trudy says
My daughter loves to make necklaces with Play Doh
Emma says
My daughter loves playing “bakery” with her PlayDoh – and I usually get in on it too!
Michelle J. says
I just played with one color at a time so they wouldn’t get mixed up.
laura ari says
My kids love to play with the play doh dental kit.
Jeanine Jones says
I remember making play doh pizzas when I was a kid!
April Pachuta says
My kids love making Play-Doh food the best. They also really like to mix colors, which bothers me, but it really shouldn’t! lol
Mary Cloud says
I was always making Play-doh snakes – it was about the only thing I could create.
Meaghan says
I would use it to make the characters in my dioramas for book reports
Bridget Combs says
I loved making food. Pizza, hot dogs, hamburgers
Shanna says
My kids love making pretend food with playdoh!
Candace Galan says
I use to make food with it, pretend I was working in a restaurant!
Taryn T says
I never had a play-doh kit, so I mostly rolled out snowmen, snakes, worms, and fake food. My daughter loves all the themed sets, Barbie, My Little Pony, etc. I still like the smell when I open the container.
Sara says
Play doh was always my favorite growing up! Loved to make strange new animals and monsters. The possibilities are endless
Stephanie Liske says
We used to have a little barber shop with play doh hair on the little people.
MaryAnn says
My kids love to make cookies with Play Doh and serving them to the adults.
Darlene Owen says
My granddaughter loves to play house and bake me cakes and cookies with playdoh
Rochel S says
My kids like shaping out the letters in their names!
Tabitha says
I used to mix it altogether. And I smelled it a lot!!
angie w says
I loved Play Doh! I used to play with it all the time. Now it’s something my niece really enjoys 🙂
allyson tice says
my kids like to make pretend dog food and treats for our pup Daisy! thy
Marilyn Nawara says
We always made food or jewelry
Heather D says
My girls like to use play doh to make pretend food. Sometimes fake insects or creatures to try to freak me out.
Teresa Kunberger says
I used to build snowman and family members!
Amanda Hoffman says
My son loves to make food with playdoh
Melissa says
I loved using that device where you could put the Play Doh into it, press the lever, and it would come out in ropes, or “snakes” as we used to pretend they were!
Jennifer Rogers says
I used to shape playdoy into everything!
Debbie Clauer says
I used to love rolling play doh into long snakes, then cut them up in various sizes.
Brittney House says
I used to make play doh people and houses.
Stephanie Phelps says
We use to roll it around and make little people with it and houses!
nickie says
My son likes to make monsters
Cynthia C says
My nieces like to make pretend food with Play-Doh.
Vera K says
My kids liked squishing playdoh thru things…..
Ashley C says
I loved play doh as a kid, but I don’t remember what all I used to make with it. They didn’t have all these sets and things, so I just used to mold stuff and make random objects.
Melissa C says
If I remember correctly getting in a ton of trouble smashing it into the new carpet my father had freshly put down on the floors. I can still to this day hear those horrific screams of look what you did Melissa, what ails you?!? lol.
I do remember multiple times as a child making blueberry pies out of play doh for my father and my much older brother, I st9ll remember those “blueberry pie” days. Ahhh childhood and the nostalgia of playdoh!
Fiona N says
My son and I love playing with play-doh every day. He loves making pizzas and cookies!
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Jeanna says
My daughter and I make mini pizzas out of PlayDoh the most! It’s our favorite thing to make!
Annmarie W. says
I remember spending hours & hours at our kitchen table rolling out playdoh ‘snakes’ and putting eyes & smiles on them!
Darla says
I was pretty simple. I just liked touching it and the toys didn’t interest me as much as the play doh itself.
Maryann D. says
I used to love playing with Play-Doh. My mother used to help me make different foods and I thought that was a lot of fun. Meatballs were the easiest!
Denise M says
I absolutely played with it and i love to play with Play-Doh with my children now, especially making play food
Laura says
I remember playing with Play Doh in school a lot. I’d always have a mild anxiety attack when kids would mix the colors. I also had a Play Doh kit that make McDonalds happy meals burgers and fries – it was cool until Dash tried to eat it!
ColleenMarie says
I loved playing with play-doh all the time when I was a kid. My kids love the play-doh sets and also basic cookie cutters.
Vicki Wurgler says
my children loved play doh and now my grandkids I have a spaghetti maker they love to use
Seyma Shabbir says
We used it to make animals, and tried to make people!
Colleen Maurina says
My little grandson loves to make many things with Play Doh such as cars and trucks. I like Play Doh because it encourages children to be creative and use their imagination!
Charlene S. says
I liked making animals, like dogs and giraffes.
Kristie says
My son likes to make dinosaurs with play-doh.
vickie couturier says
we used to pretend to make food with play dough when my daughter was little
Jessica says
My sister and I used to love the Play Doh hair cutting station we had. It was so much fun to squeeze a head of hair onto the Play Doh people and then style it in cools ways and start over :). My daughter currently loves making Play Doh sweets. She got a ice cream and a cupcake set for Christmas last year that she uses all the time.
Natalie says
I lioved making food with my playdoh,
And my girls love making animals with their playdoh
Michelle C says
My daughter loves making Play-Doh cupcakes!
Janet W. says
My grandsons love to make shapes with their PlayDoh. Another favorite to make is snakes!
Linda Bradshaw says
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Linda Bradshaw says
I loved play doh. I loved the smell and I loved making art with it. As a matter of fact, I requested some for my birthday 2 years ago!
Chelsea m says
When I was little we used to love making play food out of Play Doh. My favorite thing to make was fruit.