Who owns play dough

Follow Us. Terms Privacy Policy. All rights reserved. JulNichols via Getty Images. Anadolu Agency via Getty Images. Suggest a correction. After not only observing that it worked, but that the kids had a blast playing with it, she called Joe and told him they needed to make their now obsolete wallpaper cleaner into a toy. Joe took a look at the Christmas ornaments made by the kids and agreed it was a great idea.

To facilitate this, they simply removed the detergent from the dough and added an almond scent and some coloring. It was originally white. Enter Kay Zufall to once again save the day, assuring him that this was a horrible name for their product. She and her husband, Bob, then set about trying to think up a better one.

Thanks to some connections to school board members formed from selling soap, the company initially sold their new product to schools all throughout Cincinnati. They then began trying to market it to stores, with only a marginal amount of success locally. While at this point it had saved the company, without money for major advertising, Play-Doh seemed to be destined for very slow growth- at least until Joe McVicker managed to talk his way into an audience with Bob Keeshan, better known as Captain Kangaroo.

He showed Keeshan the Play-Doh and explained to him that Kutol had no money for a national advertising campaign nor money to have the product put on the show. We thought so, too, Haylee! We also thought it was awesome that Finn made his brother's name out of play dough first before he made his own! When something is "afoot," that means it's about to happen or is just happening.

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We sent you SMS, for complete subscription please reply. Follow Twitter Instagram Facebook. Who invented play dough? What is play dough made of? What was play dough originally used for? Wonder What's Next? Wake up! Try It Out Find an adult friend or family member who can help you with these activities! Which ones would you like to attempt? Or do you have ideas of your own? With a friend, make a list of things you would like to make with Play-Doh.

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Join the Discussion. Kamila Jan 30, Feb 3, Rachel Vereeke Dec 9, I'm actually doing a project on play-doh and comparing it to homemade play-doh and I need an expert. Do you guys have anyone I could contact? Dec 11, Hi Rachel. Maya Nov 24, I love this article it gave me facts about play doh for my school project and so I can get a B or an A.

Nov 25, This article was really interesting and it helped me a lot with my assignment because we had to research something that was made by mistake. I love playdoh so researching it was a pice of cake. Especially when i had a great article. Feb 24, Ramsey Jul 25, In the late s, Noah McVicker's nephew Joseph McVicker who also worked for Kutol received a call from his sister-in-law, nursery school teacher Kay Zufall, who had recently read a newspaper article explaining how children were making art projects with the wallpaper cleaning putty.

She urged Noah and Joseph to manufacture and market the compound as a toy putty for children. The first Play-Doh Compound came only in an off-white, one-and-a-half-pound can, but by , the company introduced the distinctive red, yellow, and blue colors.

Patent No. The formula remains a trade secret to this day, with Hasbro admitting only that it remains primarily a water-, salt-, and flour-based product. Although non-toxic, it should not be eaten. The original Play-Doh logo, comprised of the words in white script inside a red trefoil-shaped graphic, has changed little over the years. At one point it was accompanied by an elf mascot, which was replaced in by Play-Doh Pete, a boy wearing a beret.

Pete was eventually joined by a series of cartoon-like animals. In , Hasbro introduced the talking Play-Doh cans, the official mascots featured on the product's cans and boxes. Along with the putty itself, now available in an array of bright colors, parents can also purchase kits featuring a series of extruders, stamps, and molds. They, in turn, were folded into the Tonka Corporation in , and two years later, Hasbro bought the Tonka Corporation and transferred Play-Doh to its Playskool division.

To date, over seven hundred million pounds of Play-Doh have been sold.