How To Get Playdough Out Of Carpet

Slightly separate the carpet fibers with your hands to reach a bit of deep downplay dough.

How to get playdough out of carpet.

Brush the play dough off the carpet with a stiff brush to remove any small bits of play dough stuck to the carpet. Separate the carpet fibers slightly with your hands to reach bits of deep down play doh. If the stain still remains try to blot the stain in the carpet with a bit of rubbing alcohol on a clean white dishcloth. Don t soak the cloth but rather just keep it damp.

Dampen a cloth with hot water and place it on top of the play dough. Pour a small amount of rubbing alcohol onto a clean paper towel and blot the playdough stain gently to loosen any remaining residue. Apply rubbing alcohol to a paper towel and gently blot the carpet. Let it sit there for about an hour.

If there is still some soft dough that has made its way deep into the carpet take some white play dough and tap and dab a bit so that the white dough will attack itself to the soft dough deep inside the carpet. This will soften the play dough making it a lot easier to remove. Make sure you only blot the stain as rubbing could make it worse. Sometimes even the hardest treatments won t get playdough out of the carpet.

Soft solution pick up large or loose pieces of play doh from the carpet by hand. If the remaining parts trapped in the carpet is still soft flick at it with a ball of pliable white fragments so it leaves no color behind. To tackled dried play doh find a blunt dull object like a butter knife or a nail file or even a spoon and begin to scrape beneath the product to work at removing it from your carpet. A sopping wet cloth will soak the carpet padding.

If the remaining substance trapped in the carpet is still soft dab at it with a ball of pliable play doh ideally a white piece so it leaves no color behind.