Birthday Play Dough Kit

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I am loving our 12 Months of Play Dough series, but something that happens throughout all of the months is student birthdays! This classroom-sized Birthday Play Dough Kit is a good one to keep stocked all year round as a special treat for those special days, or to use for fun sensory play anytime!

This birthday play dough kit is such a fun way to celebrate birthdays in the classroom, or for a fun sensory play center anytime!

My kids love any form of bake shop play and we make recipes as a group a couple of times a week, so I knew a cake-themed birthday kit would be a hit! Of course, you could customize your birthday kit to include references to birthday parties, increasing ages, etc.

The play dough and all materials are stored in my giant Ikea sectioned container, which I do all of my classroom-sized play dough kits in. You can also search snap lid containers on Amazon and find what would work best for you size-wise.

This birthday play dough kit is such a fun way to celebrate birthdays in the classroom, or for a fun sensory play center anytime!

Making a Birthday Play Dough Kit

First, gather your materials:

This play dough kit was intentionally open-ended, allowing children to create representations of their own birthday celebrations or birthday treats – if you had a significantly diverse group I would also add in small items that would be common in birthday celebrations in their cultures.

This birthday play dough kit is such a fun way to celebrate birthdays in the classroom, or for a fun sensory play center anytime!

My daughter helped me test out this kit right before her birthday – she was so excited to practice making her birthday cake!

First, she took inventory of what was in the kit to plan her creation. Then, she rolled out the play dough to make her cake.

This birthday play dough kit is such a fun way to celebrate birthdays in the classroom, or for a fun sensory play center anytime!

She experimented with the paint scrapers to make patterns in the “frosting” of her cake.

This birthday play dough kit is such a fun way to celebrate birthdays in the classroom, or for a fun sensory play center anytime!

She meticulously added sprinkles of barley to her cake – because what is a birthday cake without rainbow sprinkles?

This birthday play dough kit is such a fun way to celebrate birthdays in the classroom, or for a fun sensory play center anytime!

And then she ceremoniously added a single candle into the center of the cake, pinching the play dough around the pipe cleaners to hold them in place.

This birthday play dough kit is such a fun way to celebrate birthdays in the classroom, or for a fun sensory play center anytime!

And then, of course, we had to practice singing “Happy Birthday!”

This birthday play dough kit is such a fun way to celebrate birthdays in the classroom, or for a fun sensory play center anytime!

Other ways we could have played with this kit:

  • Patterning the candles
  • Slicing and serving the cake with the mini forks
  • Layering the different colors of “cake”
  • Making elaborate frosting designs with the different cake play doughs
  • Rolling the play dough in the barley
  • And more!
This birthday play dough kit is such a fun way to celebrate birthdays in the classroom, or for a fun sensory play center anytime!

How do you celebrate birthdays in your classroom?

More Play Dough Fun

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Jennifer
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4 Comments

  1. Hello!
    Where can I find the awesome plastic box this is in? I want to gift it to my daughter! Thank you so much!

    Shea

  2. Haven’t thought dough kit could be a birthday gift, btw good creativity in choosing birthday gift. Thanks for sharing with the community. Stay blessed

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