http://www.foxbusiness.com/features/2017/02/25/hasbro-to-make-play-doh-american-again.html
great news for several reasons. I am always concerned about what chemicals and other stuff are used in products made in china.I can not tell you how many times I have opened a product from china and the smell of noxious chemicals hits you. clothing, toys, utensils etc…and with the Chinese drywall I am not sure the toxic additives where ever truly determined. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-d-shaw/remember-chinese-drywall_b_9553536.html
but I hope to see more products manufactured in america and play doh is a good one since all my nieces and nephews have tons of play doh. (of course most of my family thinks my concern about these things is over the top) on the issue of chemicals and pollution I am more of a hippie than most hippies.(go figure)
So easy to make your own play dough. You should whip some up for your nieces and nephews.
actually I thought about it. that would make me a granola uncle. (organic homemade play doh)
You can even find recipes online to make natural dyes from veggies, bark, etc. 
I understand your concerns about chemicals in products coming from China, but have to laugh at the thought of getting chemicals out of play doh. Isn’t play doh just one big glob of chemicals? Where does that distintive play doh smell come from?
Be the fun uncle. Edible play dough from peanut butter and dry milk.
I’m pretty far from granola, but I’ve been making home made play dough for 15+ years. Tons of great recipes online. The edible ones are great because littles can’t resist the urge to taste it.
Side note, I must have some affinity for noxious chemicals because I love the smell of play dough. And gasoline.
You mean all play dough isn’t edible? 
You can also make homemade gloop and slime if you really want to tick off your siblings yet be the funcle.
play doh smell is not noxious in itself, when it is made in china heaven knows what was used to make it.
I probably last bought Play-Doh well before its manufacture in China began in 2004. I always thought there was an odd odor about it, even going back to when I was a kid, which was quite a few decades before 2004. I’m the least crafty person imaginable, but anyone can make homemade Play-Doh once they buy the requisite cream of tartar (not something I’ve ever used for anything else). The homemade stuff lasts forever and is much easier to clean up than the manufactured kind.
@frazzled1 You can bake snickerdoodles with cream of tartar.
I remember my college daughter calling fro Minneapolis airport and asking “who knew you can’t board a plane with a bag of homemade play dough?” Ah the innocence.
We always made our own play-doh. My girls attended a co-op nursery school and the recipe came from one of the teachers. We made it for the school as well as for home.
OH MAN! Now you all made me get up and go look at my bookshelf–more exercise than I’ve had all day!
“Mudworks” by MaryAnn Kohl.
Been sitting on my bookshelf for over 20 years. Kids are gone and yet it’s still on my bookshelf waiting for grand kids…pages are all marked for reference. Super fun easy recipes for clay, dough, etc. Many a fun afternoon attached to that book! And I see it’s still available on Amazon in an updated edition.
What more could you ask?
cream of tatar, I never heard of it so i goggled it. nothing to do with cream or shrimp / fish dipping sauce. it is an acid byproduct from making wine in barrels. . wow, I learned something new.
https://www.thebalance.com/cream-of-tartar-substitute-1388882
Now I’m having flashbacks of my hands deep in paper mache covering balloons with D…so much more fun than fixing dinner!!! Good times! (Put down some plastic!)
My H told me this today. I didn’t even know it wasn’t made in the USA. Guess I never really thought about Play Doh since…ever? Haha
Never thought about where cream of tartar comes from (that’s interesting) but it is used to make egg whites really stiffen up nicely when you whip them. Its especially helpful if the egg whites arent quite at room temperature like they should be when you whip them (so they will get really stiff). It really works well.
When our kids were play-doh age we lived in a country where you can’t get play-doh, so I learned how to make it at home. Then we moved to a country where it was available and to my surprise, the homemade stuff was nicer to play wit! We kept making it at home.
@KKmama, I lost a battle with TSA over peanut butter. New, in the sealed container, peanut butter. Sheesh.
Not quite play doh but anyone else remember making salt maps with their kids? And trying to get them to school in one piece :))
I used real clay.