If you need us, we’ll just be over here squishing, sculpting and pulling apart our new Playfoam by Educational Insights. We were #gifted a few of these Playfoam Pals to review.
Playfoam is a molding toy that apparently goes way back, but I hadn’t heard of it before. But its latest series, Playfoam Pals, features a little plastic toy animal hidden inside the pod. We ended up with a platypus, alligator and a raccoon we thought was a chipmunk 
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LIKES:
⋙ Playfoam colors can be combined (as kids always do) without it turning brown like other sculpting toys. In fact the mixed colors were pretty!!
⋙ The texture of the Playfoam is very relaxing and fun to mold into snakes, balls and cubes.
⋙ The kids really loved that the animal inside each pod is a surprise.
⋙ Adding an animal toy to the Playfoam experience is fun bc then you can sculpt little accessories for them. We made little houses, caves and beds. My daughter also molded a long meandering blue river for the platypus!
DISLIKES
⋙ We liked almost everything about this toy, but I would change the packaging. The plastic pods they come in have a curved shape that makes it hard to get the Playfoam out, or put it back in to save for another day.
⋙ I keep an eye on my 2 year old with the little figurine however, because it’s small enough to be a choking hazard.
CONCLUSION
Overall, this toy provided my kids with a lot of opportunities for tactile fun and creativity. My 2 year old liked to squish it and roll it, while my 4 year old enjoyed making little houses for the animals. And it apparently never dries out and can be used a bunch. #winning.
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