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Title: Simply too messy, but the kids loved it
Review: As a parent, unless you like to be constantly using your mini-vacuum to clean up the mess this makes, you will not buy this again. This was bought for my young daughter. She loved to play with it, but kept losing sand every time to the vacuum cleaner when we had to clean up the mess. Sure we tried tossing what we could back in, but this toy was simply too frustrating to keep having to clean up after over and over again (especially five minutes after we had just cleaned it up). Playdoh isn't as messy as this. We limited our daughter to playing with it in the kitchen where our vinyl floor is. I would never allow the kids to play with this nor Playdoh on the carpet, as both are too messy. However, this one takes the cake as far as mess is concerned. Perhaps they should sell this with a mini-cordless vacuum instead of the mat - more ended up in that than in the play mat.
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