Hasbro celebrates Pantone’s 2026 Colour of the Year with Play-Doh partnership

Hasbro is celebrating Pantone’s 2026 Colour of the Year – Cloud Dancer – with a special Play-Doh collaboration.
Pantone 11-4201 Cloud Dancer is a serene shade designed to ‘reduce noise, restore balance and create space to simply be’.
The Play-Doh x Pantone 11-4201 Cloud Dancer is a creative play tool celebrating Play-Doh’s 70th anniversary that ’embodies the limitless creative possibilities of a blank canvas’.
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