Why Play-Doh Touch Is Going to Be the Hottest Gift of the Holiday Season

The rules of Play-Doh still apply — your child can create whatever they want in whatever colors they like. Once they've shaped their creations, they can scan them into the virtual world in the iPad app and watch it completely come to life. It's honestly the coolest thing — the app even knows the difference between scanning in creatures who will be able to move and walk around and decorative aspects like trees.

Like the actual modeling of the dough itself, there are endless possibilities within the app play. Your child will start with a mostly blank world and can add in however many designs they want to make it their own unique creation. Once the Play-Doh has to be put away, the app play continues. Even though nothing new can get scanned in, everything your child has created up until that point can be played with on their iPad.

The recommended age for the app is 4 and up, but as every parent knows, even children younger than that are proficient in technology, and as long as they're beyond the everything-is-food stage, they should be good to go with the Play-Doh itself. Toddlers and big kids can all use this product and each get something useful out of flexing their creative and imaginative muscles.