Moon Dough Magic Zoo
Hello Moon Dough lovers! I just received Spinmaster’s latest addition to the Moon Dough family,the Moon Dough Magic Zoo! I reviewed the Moon Dough Barn Yard a few months ago and leave it to Spinmaster to use their innovation to develop yet another fun, interactive playset!
In the Moon Dough Magic Zoo, children fill either a penguin, gorilla or bear mold with white, orange or purple Moon Dough to create their own zoo animal. First you decide on your animal and pop the molds into the purple magic cage and close it up. Then you loosely fill the magic cage with about a little less than a golf ball size amount of Moon Dough. Pop the magic cage into the zoo and put a winder walker into the bottom, making sure that it is correctly attached. While you turn the big crank to lower the magic cage, the winder walker feet will be spun so when the Magic Zoo door magically opens — your animal will walk right out towards you!
Moon Dough never dries out, is wheat free and is hypo-allergenic! As I mentioned before when playing with other Moon Dough playsets, initially, right out of the package, it is kind of a crumbly texture that once squished and squeezed is a light, airy dough. Since many kids are on wheat free or glutein free diets these days, and because Moon Dough is wheat free it can be a fantastic texture for them to play with without the worry of being exposed to this allergen. I find it to leave a powdery type residue on my hands, but it easily washes off.
This is a great set to help your child expand their pretend play, language, work on sharing with a friend, as well as a nice way to promote their abilities to manipulate small items necessary for good fine motor control.
Within minutes I had it cleaned up and returned back into the original box for storage. It did take me a few tries to correctly attach the winder walker feet and to determine about how much Moon Dough was the best size to put inside the mold. You may want to play with your child for the first few minutes until they are proficient with the process on their own.
Spinmaster provided the Moon Dough Zoo to facilitate a review. The opinions are my own.