If your little ones love play dough as much as mine do, then you should add one (or all) of these homemade play dough recipes to your repertoire. There is really no need to buy play dough when it is so easy and fun to make it yourself at home! Here is a roundup of some of our favorite DIY play dough recipes.

Our favorite recipe for Valentine inspired play dough – can you guess the ingredient we used to give it such a deep pink?

We turn to the Minieco blog (and book) every time we make play dough at home. I love the ideas for using simple ingredients to make a natural dye for colorful play dough.

How cute is this fairy dust play dough from Sugar, Spice and Glitter? We can’t wait to make this one!

You can’t get more colorful than this beautiful rainbow play dough from Housing a Forest.

And finally, for your little inventors at home, check out our review of the incredible DIY Electro Dough Kit from the company Technology Will Save Us