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- Playdough is a popular modelling medium for children.
- Home-made playdough is commonly made from flour, water, salt and oil and there are numerous recipes available including cooked, uncooked and edible playdough.
- The first commercial version of playdough was invented by Noah McVicker and his nephew Joseph and was first manufactured in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America.
- The McVicker’s playdough was called Play-Doh, made by a new company they called Rainbow Crafts in 1956, Play-Doh is now owned by Hasbro.
- Originally, Play-Doh (although it wasn’t called that at the time) was manufactured to clean coal marks from wallpaper in the 1930s.
- In 1955, the McVicker’s non-toxic wallpaper cleaner was introduced to children in schools and became an almost overnight success. Prior to this, classrooms were using much stiffer materials that were difficult to model and stained hands.
- More than 2 billion containers of Play-Doh were sold between 1955 – 2005.
- Petroleum has been added to manufactured Play-Doh to obtain softness qualities.
- Play-Doh has been sold in 75 countries around the world and similar playdough products are also sold in numerous countries.
- Approximately 100 million containers of Play-Doh are sold each year.
Bibliography:
Play-Doh 14 January 2013, Wikipedia, <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Play-Doh>
