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Which classic children's modeling compound was first sold as a wallpaper cleaner?

✕ Silly Putty Your answer
B Crayola Clay
C Plasticine
✓ Play-Doh

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Play-Doh began in the 1930s as a putty for cleaning coal-soot from wallpaper. It was repackaged as a children's toy in the 1950s after coal heating declined.

Source: The Strong National Museum of Play: Play-Doh

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