For Cloud Dough you will only need:
8 cups of flour
1 cup of baby oil
Put the oil and flour into a bowl and mix together
with your hands.
Until you end up with a mixture that resembles
breadcrumbs. That's it!
Well it has a wonderfully soft texture (hence thename!) but has properties similar to that of wet sand. If you squeeze it together it can be formed into shapes but will then crumble apart again.
Like me, J was perfectly content to explore the dough with his hands. Watching it fall from his fingers.
Scooping handfuls
Moulding it with his hands
Patting it.
Grabbing armfuls!
Squeezing the dough.
Reeeeaaaallly squeezing the dough - his expression was fantastic (great activity for relieving stress:))
Eventually we got round to adding some equipment to the tray.
We could then scoop and pour.
Fill and Empty
I did make some cloud dough castles, but J was intent on splatting them before I could take pictures!
WARNING: Can be quite messy so probably best to wear an apron!!
Links to EYFS:
PD: Using Equipment and Materials (using scoops, spoons etc to put the dough into containers)
CD: Exploring Media and Materials (exploring the dough with their hands and with the equipment)
Oh, how neat! We've never made cloud dough! I can't wait to try this with my boys, they love this kind of thing!
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What a great idea! I would love it if you would come link up to Show-and-Share Saturday on my blog! www.icanteachmychild.com :)
ReplyDeleteThis looks fantastic and so simple! Will be trying this tomorrow. I just discovered your blog via Pinterest. I LOVE it. Please please please consider creating a facebook pafe. It makes following a blog so easy. Thanks for all the inspiring posts.
ReplyDeleteHow might be best to store this and how long do you think it might keep?
ReplyDeleteSo far I have stored it for about a month in a sealed bag and it has been fine. Don't let it get wet though. My last batch got a bit wet when it started to rain and it ended up with hard lumpy bits in it!
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ReplyDeleteWhat kind of tray is that? Is it a old water table or something homemade?
ReplyDeleteThe tray you can get from nursery catalogues and is called a tuff spot tray. Alternatively you can also get them from your local diy store. Here it is called a builders tray and I think is used for knocking up cement. Both are virtually identical and cost around £20.
ReplyDeletelove this-so happy to find your blog :-)
ReplyDeleteWas inspired by you and made cloud dough with my girls. I linked up to you here!
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Thanks, Vicky
can u make it with regular cooking oil or does it have to be baby oil?
ReplyDeleteOooh! What a fun recipe! I have another idea that you might like to try one day using this recipe :)
ReplyDeleteMy Grand used baby oil all the time, she had the smoothest and softest skin I've ever seen or felt and she was almost 90 years old! When she became bedridden, the Hospice Nurses started using "Lavender" scented baby oil to lift her spirits. I picked it up at Wally World and even found some at the Dollar Tree.
I was thinking that this recipe would also be fun to make using the lavender scented baby oil too! What do you think?
Thank you so much for sharing this! I tried this with my kids (ages 1 and 3) today and they LOVED it. They used bowls, spoons, whisks, and stamps from a play-dough kit. I gave each child a tray with some on it and they had a blast.
ReplyDeleteI love a new sensory activity! No special equipment required, either. We will have to co this outside before it gets too cold :)
ReplyDeleteI just made this! My son play with it for about a hour. I didn't have baby oil but I did have Biosilk oil, which has mineral oil in it. It worked fine and I even added color. That took some trial and error though.
ReplyDeleteBeware, altho' fantastic, the oil in it does leave immovable marks on clothes and carpets!!
ReplyDeleteLuckily we are moving to a new building soon so it isn't too much of a problem but the cleaner wasn't happy, lol
Baby oil is toxic so be extra cautious if working with very young children.
ReplyDeleteI guess we will be making cloud dough when we get back to school in January! Thanks, I may have to call it snowflake dough tho'-:)
ReplyDeleteCan you keep this stuff after they play with it to use again?
ReplyDeleteNothing to go bad, at least for a few rounds of playtime. If you refrigerate it I bet it would keep better until next playtime.
ReplyDelete"Baby oil is toxic so be extra cautious if working with very young children."
ReplyDeleteYes. Actually, it can be extremely dangerous. My DS is almost 12 months, and he 'tasted' this stuff, and I had to call poison control. Luckily, he seems fine, but I wouldn't recommend it for a baby that is still in the 'goes in the mouth' stage.
Ran out of baby oil so topped it up with olive oil it does the as far as I can tell. So guessing you could have a non toxic one with olive oil and flour just won't smell as pretty
ReplyDeleteThanks for the tip, I now have a little one who eats everything so might try edible oil instead of cooking oil:-)
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