Rainbow Play Dough Kit

Grae and I absolutely love putting together fun play kits as gifts, especially when they involve sensory play materials.  While we’ve made a very simple homemade play dough kit previously, time around we decided to make the birthday boy a colourful kit filled with a rainbow of play dough and a bunch of fun tools and loose parts to up its play possibilities.

The idea actually came about after Miss G and I ran into a brand new stock of Ikea’s GLIS boxes…  We’d purchased a couple a little while back knowing that they’d come in handy even though we really didn’t have a plan for them at the time {I blame my hoarding tendencies on Kuwait – hah}.  Sure enough, the idea of a rainbow play dough kit came along and one of our stowed away boxes had a purpose! ☺

To go with our rainbow theme, we made 5 small batches of play dough – one red, one orange, one yellow, one green, and one blue.  We used our usual no-cook play dough recipe, but halved it and left out the Kool-Aid this time around.  {Obviously, this little kit could have any theme you wish and the play dough colours could be adapted to suit – ocean, Christmas, farm, Frozen, snow – the possibilities are endless!}

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After making our play dough, we filled the box with all of the rainbow coloured goodies we’d collected throughout the week…  Included were some small star-shaped silicon moulds, some large coloured craft sticks, a couple of fun cookie cutters, a set of flower-shaped silicon cupcake cases, some colourful straw pieces, a set of alphabet magnets, and some small colourful craft sticks.

Before packaging it up to give, we placed the play dough in a big zip-close bag just to make sure it stayed fresh.

Then we simply tied a piece of baker’s twine around it, added one of our favourite little mail tags, and it was done and ready to gift.

If you love making gifts as much as we do, check out some of our other homemade gift ideas here.

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