In our home, we love to do crafts and activity kits as a good break in the playing with toys routine. Sometimes we use this for a fun family night activity or for rainy day fun. We ask for these type of gifts for Christmas and Birthdays because it provides fun entertainment year round. I was thrilled to find Glee Gum’s Make Your Own Candy & Gum Kits.
Glee Gum is an all natural chewing gum made with sustainably harvested rain-forest chicle. It’s the best alternative to synthetic chewing gum and bubble gum.
Glee Gum also offers fun All Natural Make Your Own Candy and Make Your Own Gum Kits. You can Make Your Own Chocolate, Make Your Own Chewing Gum, and Make Your Own Gummies with their fun, easy to do kits.

Hands On Review of Make Your Own Gum Kit
We selected to review the Make Your Own Gum Kit because my kids love gum! The kit is for kids 8 and up but my kids have a blast with parental help. The kit comes with everything you need to make your gum. I only needed to supply a cutting board, rolling pin, and microwave (or stove top).

My kids enjoyed ready all about where gum comes from. This kit uses the sap from the Sapodilla trees that is gathered by the peoples in the rain-forest. Other gum sold in stores is made up synthetic gum bases and chemicals. By using the sap from these trees, there are less reasons to cut down the trees in the rain forest. Taking the sap does not hurt the trees.
Back to the review. The directions were easy to follow step by step. My kids took turns adding ingredients to together and couldn’t wait to do the next step.

What a sticky mess! My kids loved it! I let them stir the ingredients together but since it is sticky, I was sure to get it well mixed together before it had time to harden. That’s how it is with cooking with kids!

My kids were so into making this gum. I was surprised at how concentrated they were when they had to knead in the flavors (we had cherry & cinnamon) and the confectioner’s sugar into the gum base. They had fun pulling and stretching the gum.

I let the kids take a turn at rolling out the gum but in the end I had to finish it up. Next, we cut it up into about 50 pieces!

My kids were so proud of their home made gum. Elizabeth made the cherry gum and Elijah made the cinnamon gum. The flavor and smells of the gum were great. I don’t think we quite kneaded it through enough to reach the center but it was still good. Elijah wrapped up some to give to his bus driver and teacher at school. He was so proud that he made gum. Yes, the Make Your Own Gum Kit is worth it and lots of fun!
Buy Make Your Own Candy & Gum Kits
This would make an excellent kids birthday gift, kids Christmas gift, or just for fun kit to have when you need it the most! You can buy your own Make Your Own Kit on the Glee Gum website for about $13 each or find a retailer near you. You can also find the Make Your Own Chewing Gum Kit for under $12, the Make Your Own Gummies Kit
for under $13, and the Make Your Own Chocolate Kit
for about $13 on Amazon.com.
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Updated: 11-27-10 Winner Announced: Congratulations, Julie L.
Glee Gum is offering you the chance to win your choice of Make Your Own Candy or Gum Kits.
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I love the Make Your Own Chocolates.
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My favorite is the make your own chocolate ::) thanks
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I love the Make Your Own Chocolates. It looks like it would be so much fun!
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I really like the make your own chocolates kit.
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I commented on your Chocolate Cheesecake Bars Recipe, and it looks delish! Also, I voted for you at the Pillsbury site! Good luck! Entry #2.
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The Tangerine Glee Gum looks yummy. I love that these products are all-natural. My kids would enjoy making their own gummies!
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I would love to make the cinnamon gum!
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My kids would love the Make Your Own Gummies Kit!
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I like the spearmint gum!
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I like the Make Your Own Chocolate kit.
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I think I would enjoy the chocolate kit.
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Their spearmint gum is my favorite.
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I love the gummies kit. You can never have too many gummies.
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My favorite is the Make Your Own Chocolate Kit.
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My favorite product is the Make Your Own Gum kit, although the Chocolate kit is neat too. My kids have been asking how gum is made. This kit would be perfect.
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I would love to try Make Your Own Chocolate Kits
. Even though my kids only 3 and 1 , they love chocolate (maybe because they dont get to eat it very often :))