Customer Reviews

Melissa & Doug Shape, Model and Mold

5 star:		(29)
4 star:		(22)
3 star:		(9)
2 star:		(4)
1 star:		(2)

 

 

Great product, I would just recommend buying play-doh brand clay because the Melissa and Doug brand that comes with it is not really malleable.

These wooden playdough toys by Melissa & Doug are absolutely wonderful! We have several playdough toys for our 2.5 year old daughter, and these are by far the most played with. She loves the little blocks that create different shapes (triangle, circles, squares, very cute) and she loves the rollers!

I have had no issues with paint chipping off on our set.. we've had this set for about 3 months now - played with several times a week.

The dough that comes with this set.. yeah.. throw that away. Not very good.

Highly recommend these toys - excellent playdough toys!

This is a wonderful idea and my 2 1/2 year old loved playing with it -- for about three days. Then the paint started coming off the molds. Even though my son is past the stage of putting everything in his mouth, this seemed like a health hazard and I returned it.

Just not what I expected. Pieces are smaller that they seem to be online and the cutter is not actually a cutter. My daughter prefers the Play Doh kit instead...

My daughter loves this toy! She spends hours making designs and animals out of clay. Also, clean up is a snap with included wooden case!

I've always been happy with Melissa and Doug brand toys, but the playdough that comes with this toy isn't enough. It dried out really quickly. It stuck to things very easily. When you peeled the dough off, it left some of it behind (a sticky mess) -- not something I remember seeing from Play-Doh brand playdough. I would definitely recommend buying Play-Doh or making it at home. Since it is easily made at home, that wasn't a big issue for us.

My two year old really loves the rollers! I think they would be a wonderful addition to the kitchen when making pizza or sugar cookies.

This Melissa & Doug Shape Model and Mold set is Awesome! It comes with the different rolling pins, the pie crust thingie and the five block shape imprinters, as well as the four tubs of playdough. Admittedly the playdough is a bit dried out by the time it gets to the consumer so it is not as maleable as it should be so you may not get as much play out of it as you would hope for. However each of the small tubs the dough comes in has an animal shape imprint in the lid. Making the dough container a toy in and of itself. So even after the dough dries out you will want to keep the tubs around to press into new dough and see the animal shape left behind.
Also, I would like to point out that the square blocks are the perfect size and shape for small toddler hands to use. Any child can use them to play with playdough, they are easy for them to grasp and then push into the dough. If it is too hard for them to push into traditional playdough, try making homemade playdough. The recipes I have tried seem to be softer than the store bought stuff.
The only word of caution I have is that as an adult trying to roll out the playdough for my son, my larger hands rub against the main part of the rolling pin and I almost got a splinter. I don't think this is a problem for smaller toddler hands, but I will be taking a cautionary piece of sandpaper to the rolling pin just in case. As the set is wood, I forsee it lasting me quite some time. My son loves playing with playdough and this set has allready been well worth it's price.

The rollers are too small and don't move smoothly. One washing of the stamps and they fell apart, wooden pieces, unusable after that. I don't recommend this Melissa and Doug toy although I do love many others they make.

i thought the toy was better in the photo than what we received. the pieces were a lot smaller than i thought they'd be and not as well made as they appeared. the 4 press in round stamp toys were cheap plastic with sharp edges on the back where the kids would hold them to push them into the play-doh - not comfy or safe for little hands or big hands either! i thought they were going to be solid round wood stamps. the square shape stamps were made of wood and were ok, but very very small. the rollers were also very small. i was honestly pretty disappointed and didn't think it was worth $[...].

We just purchased our set and it is has high quality pieces, however the dough is awful. We have only opened the green one and let me just say, the color was all over our white little table, and luckily washes off well. Also it is way too sticky and we had to peel it off of the wood a few times. I wish the roller that looks like a pizza cutter actually could cut through, it just leaves a thin indentation across the clay which is not that exciting to a 2 3/4 year old. Rolling pins are fun and the little block molds as well. The plastic molds on the clay are not great and I don't expect them to last long. Overall nice set but I guess I expected more from Melissa & Doug and for the price. I will look into other brands to add on to our crafting box for clay play.