My Auntie Deborah has always been a bit of a swine when it comes to presents and basically purposely buys items which are going to annoy the parents. When my daughter turned 3 she bought her a huge Plastercine set and then this year she bought her a couple of Play Doh items one of which was this little set.

I have seen this set on sale in Tesco for £1.97 although I'm sure you will be able to buy it in other shops too and you can often pick up Play Doh sets in the discount style stores.

The set contains two small pots of Play Doh probably about a third of the size of a full sized pot, the Play Doh which came with my daughters set were orange and green although Play Doh comes in a huge variety of colours. There is a little contraption in the set where you can put the Play Doh through and make little strings like spaghetti.

The Play Doh is exactly like what you get in the full sized pots and is very soft and easy to play with and in my opinion it smells gorgeous. It is soft enough to pass through the plastic press easily although we did find after playing with it for a while the presses handle kept coming off but does simply click back into position.

To use the set you lift the handle of the press and there is a small box like shape where you put the Play Doh, you then place the handle back down and press on it and at the other end little pieces of Play Doh like spaghetti will appear. The press is made of blue and red plastic and apart from the handle coming off every now and again we have found it is pretty robust.

Like with all Play Doh you must keep it in it's air tight containers otherwise it will dry out and go hard meaning it is only for for the bin.

The set is pretty good for the price it sells at, it has provided my daughter with lots of fun making hair for her little people she likes to make although the handle could do with being a little more durable.