Overpriced

Such a great buy! These tools are made so well, love Melisa and Doug products. Really great quality. Easy to handle and clean. Great colors just very happy with this set

Highly recommend. My grandson and I enjoy playing with Play doh and this kit keeps us busy for a while.

These are really nice to have with playdoh ! The quality is nice and not cheap like some playdoh accessories!

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My daughter loves this set so much just got it for a friend as well! Definitely recommend.

My 2 year old was excited to play with this after opening it Christmas morning. The tools are great but the play-dough is super sticky. It wouldn’t stay together so we tossed it almost immediately.

My toddler loves playing with these. Amazing quality as expected from Melissa and Doug. I’m happy I bought this over cheap plastic ones.

Lots of fun rollers and nice bright colours of play dough. Grandson loves to grab this kit as soon as he gets to my house 😊

I was excited to find this for my toddler to explore sensory. However, after playing with it only a handful of times, the play dough is completely dry and crumbly. The play dough itself is probably not to blame, it’s that the lids to the containers do not stay on at all! I can’t believe these crappy containers! The wooden toys are fine and very sturdy, but the dough (which is the whole reason I bought this)is just gross to play with now. We really did not get very much use out of this, and bc of all the great reviews, I thought it would be a good buy. I’m also a former toddler teacher and we used a lot of Melissa & Doug items that were high quality. I was very disappointed in the quality of this set. If it wasn’t for the poorly made containers, thus set would be very nice for sensory exploration.

I bought this kit to work on wrist stability and functional play with our son, who has a laundry list of diagnoses at this point that as come with global developmental delays. Right now, we're using this as part of a non-verbal imitation (NVI) target, but the wrist stability is the big thing I'm hoping to get out of it, as it's an important area for developing a tripod grasp with writing utensils. I purchased this as opposed to other roller sets for 3 reasons: 1) two of the rolling pin style rollers have designs they will imprint into the clay and I suspected/hoped this would be more motivating for our little man, 2) one of the rollers is a one-hander, and I thought that he might be able to manage that easier first and therefore be more willing to try it as an NVI thing, ad 3) the wooden blocks with imprint shapes I felt would be easier for him to grasp then typical cookie cutters and would give him something he could do to modify the clay quicker from the skills standpoint, which again, I thought would be more motivating.I love that I proved to be right on all 3 of those, because yesterday was one of those days with our little guy that was serving me my butt in a wheelbarrow, and this morning when we tried to walk in a different direction other then his sister's school wasn't any better, and I totally needed to see something succeed like crazy.So, as you can see from the manufacturer's picture, these canisters of play clay are tiny. Just barely enough to be functional with this kit. It did initially seem goopier to me then play do, but it honestly didn't stick to the table any more then play do did, and I didn't have any problems whatsoever cleaning things out when we were done. Very miniscule amounts of the clay product actually stuck to the wood block we were using, none of it stuck to the rollers, which seemed to have a higher gloss varnish/sealer on them, so they're a bit less sticky. And I'm going to respectfully disagree with another reviewer that plastic play do toys are better, because we've got a full set of those and have since our daughter was a toddler...and let me tell you, it doesn't matter what they're made of, if play do dries in them, they can be murder to clean out regardless, but sometimes plastic is easier to break then wood if you're trying to chip out dried play clay.I did notice that a small bit of paint came off from the red block we were using into the clay, but I looked at it closely, and it appeared to be some loose painted wood dust that was left over from manufacturing, because I didn't see any chipped paint on our block. But I imagine paint could chip over time with use and it would go into the clay. But then, anything including pet hair will do that, so I'm not really going to be fussy about that.For our son, he's 5, and his hands are a bit on the big side for his age. He can grasp the one handed roller fine, it's more fine motor for him to do the other rollers because he can't wrap his hands all the way around the grippers and has to use his finger tips. Which I think can be useful as well. So, if you are getting this for an older or a bigger pre schooler or kindergartener, that is something to consider...they may be more comfortable with something with a larger hand grip space. But since he has fine motor needs also, I'm pretty groovy with that. And I think that the shapes in the lid are super cool too and I'm going to progress up to those once he's feeling comfortable with the blocks. So overall, I think this is a very cool product.

nice pattern making toy with clay. good quality

I read another review that said these were too small but I think the size is just right for my almost 3 year old great granddaughter. They appear to be sturdy and should give her many hours of creative play.UPDATE: While my great granddaughter still enjoys the tools and the tops of the clay containers, that are like molds, the clay itself has not held up. It is about 3 1/2 months since I purchased this and even though she has not used the clay very often and I have been scrupulous about being sure the tops are replaced tightly on the clay containers, the clay has gotten lumpy, stiff, and unusable. I recently purchased some Play-Doh brand clay to replace this and the difference is remarkable. Even brand-new, the M&D clay was not the same soft, silky consistency. For that reason, I am lowering my rating to 4 stars though the tools are probably worth the price of the set.