Doh Vinci Review

BzzAgent sent me a free Doh Vinci  kit to try out.  It's made by Hasbro, the same people who make Play Doh.  You know how you make something with Play Doh and accidentally leave it out over night?  Normally, it hardens but then crumbles because it's not really supposed to be left out.  Well this stuff is designed to be left out over night so you can apply it to things for decoration.

I received the "Memory Maker Kit" and an extra "Deluxe Styler" with four design tips and three extra colors. According to the Hasbro website, there are a lot of other ones.

The Memory Maker Kit included a styler (which my kids kept calling the "gun"), one design tip (kind of a straight line tip), four tubes of "deco pop" (the play doh type stuff), and a frame.  The frame actually had lots of pieces to pop out, which helped while we were getting the hang of how to use the styler.

The Deluxe Styler had a "fancy" styler (again, kid named because it had extra decorations on the outside), four different design tips (butterfly, star, flower, heart) and three tubes of deco pop.

Disclaimer: The kit says ages 6 and up.  My five year old was not going to sit idly by while we played with anything remotely close to Play Doh.  So she joined in the fun.

I actually let all four kids try to see how they liked it.  The teenager is really into crafting and "making things pretty" so she enjoyed it.  Her only complaint seemed to be the amount of deco pop in the tubes.  She said there wasn't enough.

The boy is a tween so I wasn't sure if he would participate but he seemed to enjoy it too.  He was less interested in the design tips than the girls though.

The seven and five year old had a little trouble squeezing things out in the way they wanted.  The "gun" wasn't hard to squeeze, but they had to use quite a bit of the deco pop to "practice" how to make it go in the direction they wanted it to.  One thing we discovered was that because it's not super sticky, we were able to move it around a little after it was on the cardboard.

Pros: Easy to use even with young (5/6 years old) kids; clean up seems to be really easy, not sticky or gooey; (I got some on my hand and expected it to be hard to get off, but rubbing my fingers together as I walked to the sink got most of it off.

Cons: There's not a lot in the tubes so if you are sharing with multiple kids, that can be an issue

I'll have to update later on how well it actually hardened and stuck to the cardboard. Because I thought it would be sticky I was pleasantly surprised but then wondered how it would stick.

Update:  It all seemed to stick the way it was supposed to stick. The kids called it "squishy" but it didn't change shape so mission accomplished!