Learning Resources Playfoam Combo 8-Pack, Ages 3+, Sensory Fidget Toy Gift for Kids, Squishy Modelling Compound, Never Dries Out, Supports Fine Motor Skills & Creative Play, Gifts for Kids

Absolutely brilliant product. After watching the Youtube videos we decided to buy this for our little one, along with black plasticine, googly eyes, and plastic eggs with toys inside. Although they are much smaller than we first thought, this didn't stop our little one from thoroughly enjoying this wonderful playfoam, so much so that we've just bought another pack so she can make bigger things with it. As for the stickiness, yes, sure it's a bit sticky, but that doesn't take away from the fact that this is a great fun toy for young children, and curiously, adults as well, :-) What we did when we presented this to our little one was to put the foam around the plastic eggs, put googly eyes on them and some black plasticine in the shape of funny mouths. Just like the YT video that she loves. Watching her face light up was amazing, and she uses the plastic eggs to wrap the playfoam around so she can pretend she is opening the shapes just like they do in the YT video. She also loves making faces with them or other shapes and she spends ages using the playfoam, and I feel that anyone who doesn't 'get' this product is allowing their child to sorely miss out on creativity and improving their child's fine motor controls and hand/eye coordination skills which come in handy for when they are older. After all, what's a little mess compared to the fun a child can have playing with something that encourages creativity and intelligent play?

Looks good, my granddaughter will love this.. nice and colourful and squishy, each ball is a little bigger than half of a tennis ball that has been sliced in half. It looks like to can squish 2 together. I can't comment on anything else as yet as it had not been opened.

I work with children and all ages from 5 - 16 love these . They have a weird texture , not as soft or malleable as slime but good for sensory experiences and easy to use , and keep clean . I was a bit disappointed as it’s not the easiest to make things from them , you would need several to build a shape and generally the kids don’t even attempt making items as the texture doesn’t lend itself easily to building . So it holds there attention for a short while . They do like to squish and bend it and for that it works well and is mess free . After a while they get a bit harder and I wouldn’t recommend for very young children as it’s like plastic foam balls and they could easily swallow it .

This stuff is incredible! It is completely under rated. Every child under the age of 10 needs this in their lives. My son got this at 2.5 in June 2015 and we have been playing with it ever since. Almost on a daily basis. It is almost mess free, it has survived out of the packaging for 6 months. We use it to play catch indoors rolled into a big ball. We make shapes out of it. It gets fed to dinosaurs (and subsequently pooped out by dinosaurs haha!) It is put in dump trucks and is used to hide trains. It is the best money I have ever spent on a toy product for my child. In terms of sensory play it is a little sticky but squishy and feels lovely, if not a little odd at first. We are getting to that stage now where after 6 months of continual play we could do with some new ones. It is our most played with thing and it is the one thing I recommend over and over again.

Ok to use but hard to store after opened and played with, great for sensory seekers

We tried this after getting sick of trying to get playdough out of the living room carpet. This stuff looked as though it might be easier to clean up as the piece are a fixed size, they look like tiny little polystyrene balls, brightly coloured and mixed through with some sort of semi sticky mastic that gives the whole thing a similar feel to a rice crispy square. So far it seems like an improvement over playdough, as even though a small number of the small beads transfer regularly into hair and hands, they definitely do come out easily. The children find it mildly infuriating that the different colours stick together so well, even with only brief and accidental contact, but at least given the bead size, they can separated and regrouped with a certain amount of patience. The resolution of the crafted parts is very low, so you can't do fine detail and have to think big, but it doesn't seem to diminish the enjoyment. As this was the first time we bought this product we tried the cheapest version we could find which didn't include any storage containers or travel cases - so time will tell if the bold 'NEVER DRIES OUT' claim holds true! Currently highly recommended, if you understand the limitations.

I haven't a clue what some of the negative reviews are banging on about, this stuff is amazing. Bought for my 4 year old for his birthday, as an alternative to play doh which was invented by Satan and bought by one of his sadist minions. It's just awesome. It feels slightly sticky to the touch but leaves no mess or residue on your hands, clothes, carpet or furniture. It looks like tiny pieces of colourful Styrofoam but it only sticks to itself. True, some pieces do break away while it's being played with but they don't get stuck to the carpet like the dreaded p word does. They can either be easily picked up using a larger blob and dabbing them up or if you can't be bothered, hoover them up. My kid mashed all 8 colours into a rainbow blob within minutes of opening it but he's still playing with 2 hours later so I'm not too worried. I saw another review about it smelling bad...it did smell a bit chemically when we opened the package but that faded within a couple of minutes.

This stuff is great for little ones 2-4ish. It's a wonderful sticky texture, its fun to handle and mess with, and they can shape it enough to be delighted. It's also pretty mess free, although we still play with it in a tray - I wouldn't want to get any on the carpet, mainly as it would pick up all the dust and hairs and you'd never get it clean. That said, older kids might prefer something that holds a shape better...this is more for squishing than shaping - you can make basic shapes with it, but they soon melt back to a blob. Also worth noting: the colours won't stay separate for long, just accept it's going to be a big multi-coloured mass.