FARGO — Play-Doh has entertained children for more than 60 years, but did you know the colorful dough started out as wallpaper cleaner? Monday, Sept. 16, is National Play-Doh Day, a day to ...

And so Play-Doh was born. The wallpaper cleaner was repackaged in 1956 and sold to Cincinnati-area schools under the name Rainbow Crafts Co. But at first, Play-Doh didn’t come in a rainbow of ...

Play-Doh has sold more than 3 billion cans since its debut as a child’s toy in 1956. Courtesy of The Strong, Rochester, New York The handwriting was on the wallpaper for Kutol. Founded in 1912 i ...

By 1956, Joseph McVicker established Rainbow Crafts Company Inc., a subsidiary of Kutol Products, and the wallpaper cleaner had become Play-Doh, according to the museum. By 1957, Play-Doh was ...

The putty that became Play-Doh was originally a wallpaper cleaner and fell out of ... Joe saw nursery school children using the putty as a craft material, and took this idea and ran with it ...

The kids' toy Play-Doh modeling compound fairly belongs in ... and silicone oil was originally manufactured as a cleaning substance for wallpaper. (The dough-like cleaner was rolled against ...

When it was first developed in the 1950s, Play-Doh wasn’t a kids’ toy: It was made to clean wallpaper that had been dirtied by soot from home heating systems. But as cleaner heating systems ...