Play dough kits. We can’t stop making them. Not for ourselves, and not for our friends. Tomorrow morning we’re headed to a preschool co-op play date combined with a little birthday celebration, and since the birthday girl requested a mermaid themed celebration, we thought we’d make her a mermaid play dough kit to match. ☺

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Grae and I talked about our play dough colours ahead of time and then I made it this afternoon during quiet play time. She decided that there had to be sand play dough {because mermaids live in the ocean, obviously}, we had to have some water-coloured play dough {we went for blue and teal}, and there needed to be some green to make seaweed and fish out of too. We used our regular no-cook play dough recipe and added glitter to everything but the sand dough ‘because mermaids like sparkles’.

Of course a mermaid play dough kit also needs a mermaid. And while I’m not a Barbie fan, this Merliah Barbie Mermaid was the only small mermaid I could find during my toy store tour around Kuwait, so she’s what we went with.

As usual, we used a GLIS Box to house our kit, and added some aquarium seaweed, some glass gems, some sea shells, and sea glass to the compartments.

Then we laid our mermaid on the bed of seaweed and our kit was complete!

Here’s the finished product…

Before gifting a play dough kit, I do always put the dough into a large zip close bag in order to ensure freshness, so we did that, tied the box with baker’s twine, and added a little ‘mermaid play dough kit’ tag. Done – a simple gift that will hopefully encourage lots of play and creativity!

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