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Friday 16th September is World Play-Doh day with celebrations being held all around the world.
You’d be far fetched to find anyone that hasn’t played with Play-doh atleast once in their lifetime. Even as an adult playing with it evokes innocent childhood memories.
Since it’s 1956 debut, the iconic PLAY-DOH yellow can has become synonymous with creative play as well as being a fun family favourite!
For our generation our grandparents, parents and children’s lives have all benefited from imaginative and creative hands-on play experiences which we have come to love.
In Australia, we have grown to love the PLAY-DOH brand as it continues to encourage creative, hands-on play and for World PLAY-DOH Day.
Here’s some Fun Facts to help us Celebrate
- Four colors started it all – red, blue, yellow, and white. Now the PLAY-DOH brand is available in more than 50 colors!
- More than 3 billion cans of Play-Doh compound have been squished and squashed since 1956.
- PLAY-DOH compound has three core ingredients: water, salt, and flour.
- Since 1956, more than three billion PLAY-DOH cans have been sold. That’s enough PLAY-DOH compound to reach to the moon and back THREE times.
- 1956 was the year the PLAY-DOH brand was born.
- The estimated weight of all PLAY-DOH compound sold is heavier than 10,000 brontosauruses.
- It would take more than 631 million PLAY-DOH cans to circle around the globe.
- PLAY-DOH compound was inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame in 1998.
- PLAY-DOH compound and playsets are sold in more than 80 countries.
- PLAY-DOH cans are made with a tapered edge to easily stack and store empty cans to reuse again!
- In 2011, the PLAY-DOH compound is named in the TIME Magazine list of “All-TIME 100 Greatest Toys.”
- If you made a big ball of all the PLAY-DOH compound ever created, it would weigh more than 700 million pounds.
- PLAY-DOH compound is the #1 reusable-modeling compound, with over 500 million cans produced each year.
- Sept. 16, 2015 marked the first-ever WORLD PLAY-DOH DAY! Celebrated across the U.S. since 2006, excitement surrounding this annual holiday grew far beyond national boundaries to inspire artists across the globe.
- PLAY-DOH was originally used as wallpaper cleaner developed by a Cincinnati based soap company.
- PLAY-DOH compound has been known to be used in activities that promote preschool readiness that are focused around the development of fine motor skills, hand eye coordination and creativity.
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