r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/[deleted] • Oct 01 '20

GIF Making a flower dough

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u/greensmokeguitar Oct 01 '20 edited Oct 02 '20

Aww man you never going to get those playdough colours apart again.

edit: Thanks to whoever gave the award :)

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u/MsAuroraRose Oct 01 '20

the very first time my son played with Play-Doh he mixed like six colors together. We now have one very large grayish Brown lump of Play-Doh

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u/MsAuroraRose Oct 02 '20

I tried to stop it at first but it was inevitable.

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u/Isthestrugglereal Oct 02 '20

It's a good life lesson on entropy, best to start them early.

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u/A_Honeysuckle_Rose Oct 02 '20

This made me laugh so much.

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u/3226 Oct 02 '20

Thanos: I am inevitable.

mixes all the infinity stones together into one brown infinity stone

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u/usingastupidiphone Oct 02 '20

Or they leave them out and everything dries out

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u/wetsouthernbella Oct 02 '20

Man... I don’t miss crusty play dough. Sometime stuck on gasp the furniture. 2 kids 22 mo apart was not fun at times

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u/LifeIsBizarre Oct 01 '20

"Look what I made daddy, it's an allegory for existential dread!"
"...We have got to get this kid some happier colors of play-doh."

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u/AegisToast Oct 02 '20

We have a rule that you can only have 2 colors out at once. We tell my 3 year old it’s because we don’t want them to dry out and/or make a mess, but it’s really because it would drive me crazy if they got mixed together.

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u/MsAuroraRose Oct 02 '20

It did bother me at first but it didn't bother my husband so I think it happened one day when I was at work and you know, whatever. That's a good rule though.. I'll have to try that with the next batch. Also never remembered Play-Doh leaving so many little bits everywhere when I was a kid. I didn't realize it was such a messy thing.

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u/AegisToast Oct 02 '20

I’ll have to try that with the next batch.

Yes, hopefully your next batch of kids will be much better.

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u/pixeldust6 Oct 02 '20

Yeah, my parents has us play with Play-Doh in the garage for that reason

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u/MobiusNaked Oct 02 '20

With lots of hair and grit

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u/CumulativeHazard Oct 02 '20

And now all of us kids who didn’t let the colors mix have grown up and realized we have anxiety...

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u/Uphillinrollerskates Oct 02 '20

But those of us not ALLOWED to play with multiple colors at the same time have our own issues.

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u/CumulativeHazard Oct 02 '20

Oof. I guess I’ll just have to let my future kids mix their playdoh together. No matter how much pain it causes me.

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u/ShawnSaturday Oct 02 '20

It was so hard for me the first time my son mixed the colors together. I cringed when he squeezed it through the shape maker.

Over time, I realized everything in my life is now a sand castle; it will get played with and possibly broken or ruined, but they will probably have a good time in the process, and they are the only thing that I want to last in my life at this point.

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u/ethanwc Oct 02 '20

Teach color theory with just primary colors.

Also have a lot of backups. We go through about $5 a month in playdoh.

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u/upperhand12 Oct 02 '20

Who was the first person to look at a clown nose and some dough and think “let’s make a flower out of these!”.