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Playing with Play-Doh

  • Johanna Eubank
  • Oct 13, 2018
  • Oct 13, 2018

A second look at spontaneous Play-Doh creations by Star staffers made in 2016. 

Playing with Play-Doh

Playing with Play-Doh

What can you do with several colors of Play-Doh and a few minutes? Most of the sculptures in the following photos took less than 15 minutes each to construct, some as little as five minutes. When Star staffers were asked to make something out of Play-Doh, most demurred, saying, "I'm not creative." And then they created these.

Johanna Eubank / Arizona Daily Star

Playing with Play-Doh

Playing with Play-Doh

Reporter Johanna Willett was surely inspired by Nandi, the baby elephant at the Reid Park Zoo.

Johanna Eubank / Arizona Daily Star

Playing with Play-Doh

Playing with Play-Doh

Reporter (now former reporter) Kristin Cook, an experienced shoe shopper, created a flip flop.

Johanna Eubank / Arizona Daily Star

Playing with Play-Doh

Playing with Play-Doh

Videographer Nick Murray made this saguaro with fruit ready to pick.

Johanna Eubank / Arizona Daily Star

Playing with Play-Doh

Playing with Play-Doh

This rose was created by online producer Johanna Eubank.

Johanna Eubank / Arizona Daily Star

Playing with Play-Doh

Playing with Play-Doh

Reporter Becky Pallack made this prickly pear with a few buds coming out.

Johanna Eubank / Arizona Daily Star

Playing with Play-Doh

Playing with Play-Doh

Graphic artist Chiara Bautista made a javelina with bristles.

Johanna Eubank / Arizona Daily Star

Playing with Play-Doh

Playing with Play-Doh

Reporter Luis Carrasco created this mask for Dia de Los Muertos.

Johanna Eubank / Arizona Daily Star

Playing with Play-Doh

Playing with Play-Doh

Apprentice Natalia Navarro, a journalism student at the University of Arizona, has prickly pears on her mind.

Johanna Eubank / Arizona Daily Star

Playing with Play-Doh

Playing with Play-Doh

Editorial page editor and pet lover Sarah Garrecht Gassen made a wiener dog.

Johanna Eubank / Arizona Daily Star

Playing with Play-Doh

Playing with Play-Doh

Food reporter And Berlin created this agave cactus.

Andi Berlin / Arizona Daily Star

Playing with Play-Doh

Playing with Play-Doh

News assistant Barbara Poole paid tribute to "A" Mountain.

Johanna Eubank / Arizona Daily Star

Playing with Play-Doh

Playing with Play-Doh

Reporter Becky Pallack made this little duck. Or perhaps it's the Twitter bird?

Johanna Eubank / Arizona Daily Star

Playing with Play-Doh

Playing with Play-Doh

Online producer Johanna Eubank made this Diamondback snake.

Johanna Eubank / Arizona Daily Star

Playing with Play Doh

Playing with Play Doh

What can you do with several colors of Play Doh and a few minutes?

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