A young girl microwaved a popular squishy toy, which caused it to overheat and burst open, leaving her with scars Cara Lynn Shultz is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. Her work has previously appeared ...

The trend involves freezing a NeeDoh, a squishy stress toy made of rubber and filled with polyvinyl alcohol, and then microwaving it briefly to make it softer and more flexible. "She'd frozen the ...