We took a new Moon Dough barn set with us to the lake to test out (perfect for when we were stuck in on a rainy day). I love any kind of dough and we make homemade batches often but there definitely is not an at home equivalent to Moon Dough! Its super lightweight and takes molding exceptionally well. With the barn set and you can make fence pieces with detailed wood grain and they link together to make little pens for the 4 different animals that you make inside the barn (oh and you can make hay bails to feed your animals too). You add the dough into the top of the barn and slowly turn the handle until your animal pops out of the barn door while excess dough slides into the silo for later use. The age recommendation is 2-4 years but I think thats a bit young unless there is lots of adult help. I had to instruct the kids to pack 1/2 the dough in  and then add the rest or else the animals wouldn’t come out well. They picked up on this right away and were making really great animals but we just used the set with the older 3 kids while 22 month old Jillian was napping. I think Jillian won’t be ready for Moon Dough for quite a while since it is so light and although it works beautifully with the molds, it is not as workable a dough if you are just using your hands because it gets crumbly when you aren’t using a mold. My 6 and almost 8 year olds LOVED it and I think they were great ages for it. Jamie just turned 4  and after a little assistance/practice she was able to play with it on her own very nicely also.

What we liked:

• IT DOESN’T DRY OUT!!!!!!
• light fun texture
• takes the shape of molds beautifully with fine details
• the barn set really worked well and with a few minutes of practice the kids had the hang of it on their own
• molded shapes hold form well and can be played with for quite a bit before they crumble
• non-toxic, hypo-allergenic (and wheat free)
• reasonably priced, this barn set is the most expensive in the line at about $20 but there are other fun sets around $10 and they sell the dough separately as well (I plan to buy some more colors to use with our set)
• the kids really thought it was fun! Ethan says “I like how you turn the handle and an animal pops out”

What I didn’t love:

• the dough wasn’t really messy but it did crumble into tiny pieces and since its so lightweight little pieces got knocked onto the floor easily when the kids played. using a big cookie sheet to play on solved this problem for us though
• I think that many 2 year olds are too young to play with Moon Dough unless the parent is very hands on with helping them

*When I asked the kids if there was anything that they didn’t like about the Moon Dough set they had nothing negative to say though! “Nothing is bad, its perfect”.

In all I am a fan of the Moon Dough, its different from any other dough we have tried and the pros definitely outweigh the few cons! Click on the pictures below to get a better look at how the set worked for us.

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