Anonymous
Post 11/23/2025 12:12     Subject: No Play-Doh at elementary school
Anonymous wrote:Op here. I just ask her, and she tells me she has used real clay to make art project at school. She misses play doh because they come in different color and easy to play with. Due to covid, maybe she did not get to play much play doh at daycare, and every kid only gets one color for not sharing. She is on the childish side and my bad that I thought she has outgrown play doh long time ago. I did not know that she misses play doh.


So…buy her some to play with at home.
Anonymous
Post 11/23/2025 11:42     Subject: Re:No Play-Doh at elementary school
I’m the PP art teacher and I only have a decent amount due to a donation. I get $4 a student per year and it gets used up fast.


Really? That's crazy. Art supplies are expensive. I can't imagine that $4/student goes much beyond one or two classes.
Anonymous
Post 11/23/2025 09:36     Subject: No Play-Doh at elementary school
Op - this more fun/sensory/silly play so you should do it at home. Buy a multipack, get some of the tools and let her have had it at the kitchen table.
Anonymous
Post 11/23/2025 09:19     Subject: No Play-Doh at elementary school
Anonymous wrote:Because it contains gluten and some kids are allergic/have celiac.


If a kid sniffs some gluten does their stomach flare up?
Anonymous
Post 11/23/2025 08:45     Subject: No Play-Doh at elementary school
It’s more of a preschool thing.
Anonymous
Post 11/23/2025 07:55     Subject: No Play-Doh at elementary school
It’s not about Celiac. My child has Celiac and used playdoh in preschool. They knew not to eat it and to wash hands very thoroughly after.

Anonymous
Post 11/23/2025 07:44     Subject: No Play-Doh at elementary school
Anonymous wrote:Because teachers have to buy it with their own money.


I buy it for my kindergarten students but we really don’t have much time to use it. Also, HFM went around the kindergarten and first grade classes this fall so we were told not to use it.
Anonymous
Post 11/23/2025 07:13     Subject: No Play-Doh at elementary school
Because kids eat it and it gets ground into our carpet and is there forever, or until I buy a new carpet for the classroom
Anonymous
Post 11/22/2025 22:51     Subject: Re:No Play-Doh at elementary school
It has nothing to do with gluten or teachers having to buy it. It’s not an appropriate material for an art class. Students use real clay, real glaze and real paint.

Play dough is a more of a creative toy than a material for art. It’s similar to Legos. You can build and create with them, but you would not find them in an art class.
Anonymous
Post 11/22/2025 22:50     Subject: No Play-Doh at elementary school
Celiac here whose celiac kids reacted to playdoh. There are alternatives but kids that age will not wash hands and will touch everything. My kids can’t eat food out of an oven that cooks gluten let alone have it plastered around their classroom.
Anonymous
Post 11/22/2025 22:45     Subject: Re:No Play-Doh at elementary school
Second grade seems a little old for art class playdoh.
Anonymous
Post 11/22/2025 22:32     Subject: No Play-Doh at elementary school
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Because teachers have to buy it with their own money.


This, and it doesn’t last long before it
is not usable. And you don’t get something the kids can take home like fired clay (which is also cheaper per unit). It’s not really the best use of funds.


It’s true. I’m the PP art teacher and I only have a decent amount due to a donation. I get $4 a student per year and it gets used up fast. The previous art teacher bought a gigantic bag of flour which I still use to make my own.
Anonymous
Post 11/22/2025 22:26     Subject: No Play-Doh at elementary school
Anonymous wrote:Because teachers have to buy it with their own money.


This, and it doesn’t last long before it
is not usable. And you don’t get something the kids can take home like fired clay (which is also cheaper per unit). It’s not really the best use of funds.
Anonymous
Post 11/22/2025 22:24     Subject: No Play-Doh at elementary school
Because teachers have to buy it with their own money.
Anonymous
Post 11/22/2025 20:30     Subject: No Play-Doh at elementary school
Because of the gluten free kids.