I think we all know what play dough is… I mean what child growing up over the last 30 years or so, hasn’t played with it? Do you know what Moon Dough is though? I had never heard of it prior to this review… though I had heard of and maybe played with moon sand once or twice.

Moon Dough is a new molding compound that never dries out. It is soft and light… like a marshmallow. It comes in eight (8) different colors and various play sets. We were sent the Moon Dough Barnyard and Noah couldn’t wait to open it! I was finally able to tear it out of his hands long enough to take a picture of the box and then get to work setting it up for him.

The barn itself came in a few pieces that you had to put together… this wasn’t so bad, but I have noticed over the past week that the bottom part of the silo doesn’t want to stay in place and I keep finding it in various places around the house… usually not far from Noah’s cars since he  likes to stick them in there. I guess he thinks it’s a little garage or something… who knows. Anyway… like I was saying… putting the barn together was easy. I next opened up the play mat, which in my opinion was an over glorified laminated paper place-mat. The last thing I opened up was the Moon Dough itself. My first impression was that it didn’t smell good… so much so that I double checked to see if it was non-toxic and where it is made (it is non-toxic and is made in Sweden).

So, with the safety of the dough verified, I opened the bag and smooshed it together (yes that is the technical term). It definitely is light! It is a bit flaky though and leaves your hands feeling like you’ve rubbed flour on them. Not terrible, just different. We then put it to the toddler test! I helped Noah mold it and play with it. we made a few fences and hay bales… a few chickens and cows. The moon dough really is pretty cool and fun to play with.

I just don’t think that Noah is quite ready for it yet… or better yet I’m not ready for him to play with it yet… because it  is messy. It is definitely not meant for rough toddler hands… ones that quickly destroy the newly molded cow just by picking it up.  It quickly breaks apart and little pieces get everywhere. That’s not something that I feel like dealing with right now since Abby is thisclose to crawling.

Overall… I think that Moon Dough is fun to play with… it’s just not necessarily the right thing for a two year old… he can’t turn the handle to make the little animal shapes and just has too strong of a grasp to play with the molded shapes. I like that it never dries out the way that other doughs do, but I don’t like that the plastic bags that the dough comes in are not resealable… I mean how hard is it to put it into a resealable bag or tub? I do like that extra Moon Dough is available in other colors and can be bought separately.

Do you and your kids want to try out Moon Dough for yourself? It’s available at Amazon.com, Michael’s, Target and many of the other big box stores.

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