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Danas15146
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03-31-2004

Saturday, September 18, 2004 - 4:30 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Anyone have any ideas on how to get it out? My kids got a glob stuck in the bedroom carpet.

Jmm
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08-16-2002

Saturday, September 18, 2004 - 5:12 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Sounds like a lot of trouble, but all I've found so far is here:

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Danas15146
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03-31-2004

Saturday, September 18, 2004 - 6:22 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thanks Jmm -- you always find an answer for us! I got desparate and sat on the floor and scrapped away with a butter knife -- got most of it. NO MORE PLAYDOUGH IN THIS !@#%!! HOUSE!!!!

Jmm
Member

08-16-2002

Saturday, September 18, 2004 - 6:28 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Dana, What I did for my kids was get them modeling clay instead. It doesn't dry out when they forget to put on the lid. I also only allowed them to play with the clay at the kitchen table (no carpet).

I made it clear that the clay was mine and I put it away in my room so they didn't mess with it anyplace else.

Sia
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03-11-2002

Sunday, September 19, 2004 - 1:37 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Another hint, always give your child a plastic placemat for working with the play-Doh, as it can stain the kitchen table or floor where she's working. My daughter has special (old, beaten-up, stained, creased) plastic placemats that she knows are for her art and crafts projects. They're old placemats that I bought when she was little and have the alphabet, numbers, etc., on them. Now that she's too big for such babyish placemats it's a great way to recycle them. (Her placemats now have things like the U.S. map, the American Presidents, the planets of the solar system, etc. on them. Such a big girl, LOL!)

Kimmo
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05-02-2003

Sunday, September 19, 2004 - 10:35 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Similar to what Sia suggested, we have a couple of those vinyl party tablecloths in the Play-Doh box. Then when we play with the dough, we spread out the tablecloth on the floor and have a rule that the dough stays on the "mat." DS is only nearing 3, so I guess when he can play with the dough unsupervised we'd just bring the cloth up to the kitchen table.

Danas15146
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03-31-2004

Monday, September 20, 2004 - 5:10 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
We normally put the plastic down as well - but they got at it while I was doing something else. Would have come up easier - but they stuck books on top of the gob, so I didn't know about it til we went to straighten up the bedrooms -- by then it was dried out and smashed in pretty good. I got the majority of it up and the playdough is no longer in reach of little people.