Playing Dough Dough
Published in Cash For Kids
Although there are many brands of playing dough available on the market today, you can create something that is different. Be creative with your playing dough by adding glitter and some other form of accessories to make the play dough look attractive, and wanted by children. Children love color and so the more colorful the dough you create, the better your business will fare. So why not create some playing dough for kids of all ages and make it a fun, beautiful and lucrative business for you!
Be creative; add glitter and other cool accessories. Sell it online with a catchy name. You could even add confetti, variations of colors that you do not normally see elsewhere. Creativity is something most children have within themselves. They love to make things using color and shaping dough. Usually children love making decorative items to hang around the house, and to show off to their families and friends. To make these decorative items, they need colorful, easy to use, playing dough.
When creating the play dough, make sure to use safe chemicals and substances so that parents do not hesitate to buy the dough for their kids! The color of the play dough will need to be safe, remember it has a chance of entering the child’s mouth when the child touches the play dough and puts his or her hands into their mouth! So make sure you use good safe materials when creating play dough. Sometimes, companies will sell play dough at reduced rates, play dough that is not safe for kids.
However, you could consider adding some confetti and mix colors so that the play dough results in a color that may not be available in other brands. Once you offer unique colors in your play dough, you are sure to find more and more people interested in buying your play dough. Use some catchy name to market your play dough. Think of some name that makes your type of play dough stand out from the rest of play dough there is in the market. The newer the name, the more inquisitive the child and parent will be in buying the play dough to see what is so special about your play dough!
You may need some publicity in propagating your play dough. In addition, the best thing that to do is not to print business cards, but to print pamphlets to be distributed. You could distribute pamphlets in shopping centers where there are sure to be parents and children buying things. Distributing the pamphlets in nurseries or kindergarten schools where the teachers use play dough with children would be a great means of letting people know about your play dough too.
Of course, you could also resort to Internet marketing, and facilitate online sales if you have a website and a merchant account. Today, many people buy gifts for their near and dear ones from all over the world through the Internet. So, if you advertise your play dough on the Internet, there is a high chance of people buying it from you.
With the creation of your play dough, you are sure to feel some sort of self-satisfaction with the fact that you have created something that proves to be educational, and helpful in the overall development of a child!
Resources:
www.teachnet.com/lesson/art/playdough061699.html
www.instructables.com/id/How-to-Make-Playdough-Play-doh/
www.creativekidsathome.com/activities/activity_8.html
