This play dough hack goes viral on Instagram
19.2.2024
Translation: machine translated
Tired of regularly throwing your children's dried-up Play-Doh scraps in the bin? Influencer Emma O'Leary has a very simple trick.
Children often forget to put Play-Doh back into the container and close it. However, if the lid is not closed properly, the modelling clay quickly becomes dry and brittle, making it unsuitable for building projects.
Perhaps, like me, you have always simply thrown away dried-out modelling clay and bought new. But there's a simple trick for making modelling clay reusable. Influencer Emma O'Leary aka "Lifewithtinyhumans" is always showing clever mummy hacks on Instagram. For example, she films her ideas on how to keep children occupied indoors in wet weather. Or she recommends her followers excursion destinations for families in popular cities such as Belfast or Limerick.
You only need a plastic bag and water
Her video on how to save small, dried-up Play-Doh scraps went viral: the short clip was viewed around 1.7 million times. All you need is a freezer bag and some water: put the Play-Doh in the bag, add a little water and then massage the bag until the creative toy is pliable again.
Almost 60,000 people follow Emma O'Leary on Instagram. And they are delighted with the mummy hack: "It actually works! Thanks for the tip!" writes one follower. But there are also critical voices. Some users write that they throw Play-Doh away after a while anyway: because it is full of fluff and hair or has mixed with other colours. Others fear that mixing it with water could lead to the growth of a pile of bacteria.
It probably always depends on how well the Play-Doh residue is still preserved.
Are you reusing or buying new? Let me know in the comments.
Header image: Anne Fischer
A true local journalist with a secret soft spot for German pop music. Mum of two boys, a dog and about 400 toy cars in all shapes and colours. I always enjoy travelling, reading and go to concerts, too.