Product Review + Giveaway: Moon Dough Magic Zoo

My sons have yet to really experience the magic of playing with molding dough. Really, I’m the hesitant one because I just don’t feel like scraping it from the fabric of the chairs, or the floor and walls. So, when I was asked if I wanted to check out Moon Dough Magic Zoo, I took that as a cue that this is our time to test out the magic of creating.

My older son just turned 3 in June, so he just makes the minimum age for Moon Dough (it’s for ages 3 and up). I did use this product as a reward for using the big boy potty, but that’s neither here nor there – my son was just too excited to open the box, I think he would have done just about anything (potty included) to get that box open!

I started off our project by opening the dough packages and placing them into little sandwich baggies. I then molded them into a ball (per the instructions) prior to handing it over for play.

As my son is still on the young side, I let him place the molds into the — but I snapped the door shut for him and placed into the zoo. My son found the dough to be easy to push into the mold. He was also able to easily crank the handle to have the mold lower onto the feet.

The product literature claims that the moon dough is “soft and marshmallow-like and best of all- it never dries out, is wheat-free and hypo-allergenic”.  We played with this for a good 45 minutes and I did notice that the dough never changed its consistency. It was also so easy to use and if any fell, clean up was as simple as using some of the dough to pick up what may have fallen.

We did find that our mold did not seem to want to open after being cranked down onto the feet. I think we were over stuffing, but rather than interrupting my son, I just let him play and I took the molds out for him. I have tried it myself since and it the animal mold does wind up the feet, open and walk. In either instance, my boys were both very amused by the cast of zoo animals lining up on our kitchen island!

Storage was easy too, I just replaced the dough in the 3 plastic sandwich bags to the colors separate and we were good to go!

You can buy Moon Dough at many local stores. Check out the list of stores on the Moon Dough website here.

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*Disclosure: I was provided a free sample in exchange for this review. All opinions expressed are my own, yours may differ.