Whew! The kids and I made our own play dough today. They had a great time learning about colors, sequence and even a little science! We tried two different approaches to coloring the dough. First we tried 5 different colors of powdered Kool-Aid! We really loved the colors we got out of that, especially the lemon-lime and orange colors. Then we augmented the remaining colors: cherry red, grape and lemonade with food coloring! Next, we used different shades of neon and traditional food coloring shades to make even more colors! For storage we put the play dough in individual zip-loc bags and stored them in an old 5 quart, plastic ice cream tub! The end result: our own, homemade play dough pail! Tiring, but fun!
