How to Get Homemade Playdough Out of Carpet

Homemade play dough, a pliable, clay-like substance, lets your kids create almost any object or creature they can imagine. Kids aren't always careful when they play with this colorful toy and inevitably, play dough gets stuck in the carpet. Your first reaction is to clean the play dough with hot water but this actually makes the mess more difficult to clean. To remove homemade play dough from the carpet, use cool water along with a stiff brush, dish soap and rubbing alcohol.

Stiff brush
Dish soap
Rubbing alcohol
Towels
Vacuum cleaner

Instructions

- 1
  Allow the homemade play dough to dry completely before you try to remove it. This makes removal much easier.
- 2
  Scrape the dried play dough with a stiff brush or other hard, flat object, like a credit card. Pick up and discard the chunks of dried play dough.
- 3
  Dab rubbing alcohol on the play dough. Scrub the carpet with a towel. Move the towel in one direction to avoid spreading the play dough stain around the carpet.
- 4
  Squirt dish soap into a cup of cold water, if the rubbing alcohol does not remove all the play dough. Blot the play dough with a soapy towel to loosen and remove.
- 5
  Vacuum the carpet after you remove the play dough, if small particles remain.

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