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Play-Doh color mixing

Does anyone else cringe when their kids mix the colors? Our four containers are now all tie-dyed with a lovely base color of mud gray.

The 'doh is still pliable and fresh that I can't justify throwing it out, especially since Jojo will remix again soon.

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Permalink Reply by melissa on November 3, 2007 at 10:01am: omg!!! i won't buy play doh anymore...because of the mixing issue that i have! that's so funny to see that someone else has this same problem!; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by QuirkyJessi on November 3, 2007 at 10:19am: I really don't like it....and I refused to do it when I was a kid, too, lol. It's not so bad when it's still just tie-dyed, but once it's plain nasty brown, it's blah.....and I can't throw 'anything' out that's still usable, so then I'm stuck with several containers of perfectly good ugly play-doh. :(; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by melissa on November 3, 2007 at 10:22am: i have older tubs of that brown colored stuff, that is so annoyingly becomes. but, i started making my own. i was putting food color in it but, i had the same neurotic problem about the mixing of colors...so, i just keep it white!; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by QuirkyJessi on November 3, 2007 at 12:40pm: I started making my own, too, thinking that I wouldn't mind throwing it out if it didn't cost me anything to begin with. Boy was I wrong. :(; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by melissa on November 3, 2007 at 12:50pm: it's so annoying. but seriously...don't add color to it. you'll be a much happier mommy! trust me!; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Stacy on November 3, 2007 at 10:40am: OK, good. We're not alone in this. Yes, I can see my tie-dyed gray is on its way to basic poop brown, and then I don't know what to do. Making my own could be the trick...of course, my son doesn't mind at all. As long as he can get his trucks and cars "stuck in the mud" (and how appropriate, colorwise), he's fine. But UGH. Gross. And when he puts the brownish gray sludge through the spaghetti-making tool? BLECH.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by melissa on November 3, 2007 at 10:48am: my son got this play-doh dog thing, for his birthday, last year. i hid it. i didn't want to see the play-doh, oozing from the ears, tail and mouth of a stupid looking plastic dog. so, he just uses it to make guys for his power rangers to destroy!; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Stacy on November 3, 2007 at 1:40pm: Oozing from the plastic dog? What the heck? I haven't seen that set yet. Thankfully. It's already caked in all of the nooks & crannies of our Bob the Builder trucks.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Anitra on November 3, 2007 at 3:43pm: I'm anal, so when I was a kid I used to mix playdoh in to colors that weren't available back then - like purple, pink,... can't even remember what else. hee heee...; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Stacy on November 3, 2007 at 4:44pm: OH THE HORROR...so which container did you store the new color in? That's what I need to know!; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Anitra on November 4, 2007 at 5:57am: I think I rolled it in a neat little ball, and put it carefully on top of another color - so that they wouldn't mix at all when it was time to put the Playdoh away. See, even as a child I was anal. :); ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Danielle Combs on November 3, 2007 at 5:21pm: I don't buy the stuff. My kids don't find it too exciting. Even my mid-kid, Le Artiste. Ah, well.

Yeah, I didn't like it getting mixed as a kid, unless it was into another actual colour...not the brownish/grayish ick.; ▶ Reply to This