Rainbow Crafts, Inc. | |
Trade Name: | Rainbow Crafts |
Type: | Subsidiary |
Industry: | Toys |
Fate: | Merged with Kenner in 1971 |
Successor: | Kenner |
Founder: | Noah McVicker, Joseph McVicker |
Location: | United States |
Products: | Play-Doh |
Parent: | Independent (1956–1965) General Mills (1965–1971) |
Rainbow Crafts, Inc. (traded as Rainbow Crafts) is a former toy manufacturing company created and operated by Noah McVicker and his nephew Joseph McVicker as a subsidiary of the midwestern soap company, Kutol Products.[1] [2] The company manufactured Play-Doh, a modeling compound for children. Rainbow Crafts operated under the McVickers from 1956 until 1965 when it was sold to General Mills with all rights to Play-Doh. In 1971, Rainbow Crafts and Kenner merged.
Hasbro currently manufactures Play-Doh today.