2 Ingredient Cloud Dough With Flour And Baby Oil - Happy Hooligans

2 Ingredient Cloud-Dough: the ultimate sensory dough! Cloud dough requires only 2 common household ingredients: Baby Oil and Flour, and it’s ready in minutes. It smells heavenly, and it’s a delight to run your fingers through!

I’m a sucker for a good, homemade sensory play activity, and this flour and baby oil Cloud dough is something I’ve been waiting all winter to make!

I’ve seen cloud dough on plenty of other blogs, but every one mentions the mess-factor so I’ve been waiting for warm weather so we could make it and play with it outside.

What is Cloud Dough?

Cloud dough (also known as moon dough or moon sand) is silky and mold-able and takes just two ingredients to make.  It’s an amazing sensory dough!  The hooligans absolutely loved it. It kept them engrossed for well over an hour.

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Along with our kid-safe Unicorn Slime and our 2-ingredient ghost mud, it’s become one of our favourite sensory substances.

Since first writing this post, I’ve also come up with a coloured cloud dough recipe and a toddler-safe cloud dough for little ones who still put everything in their mouths.

You’re going to love how easy this recipe is!

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Cloud Dough Recipe:

Ingredients:

• 1 cup baby oil
• 8 cups flour

To make your cloud dough:

Simply add the baby oil to 8 cups of flour. Stir well. I used a pastry cutter to mix ours, but a spoon or whisk would be fine.

That’s all there is to it!

Transfer the cloud dough to a bin or basin (I purchased this kitty litter box at the dollar store, and it’s perfect for sensory activities).

Set out some colourful bowls, scoops and molds and let the little ones at it.

There’s something so soothing and relaxing working with this dough.  The hooligans were so QUIET while they played!

You’ll want to have the kids wear old clothing or aprons.

Check out the awesome aprons I make from the legs of our old jeans!

This is definitely messy play so I would recommend taking it outside.  If you have to use it indoors, put down a plastic table cloth to contain any spills.

You may also like our microwaveable puffy paint recipe made with flour, salt and food colouring.

I had another activity set up as well. I filled the wagon with warm soapy water, and added containers, spray bottles, sponges and some farm animals.

The Hooligans went back and forth between the two activities but the Cloud Dough bin was by far the most popular place to be today.

How do you store cloud dough, how long will it last?

Cloud dough will keep indefinitely when stored in a container with a lid.

Want to make coloured Cloud Dough?

Since writing this post, I’ve figured out how to colour a batch of cloud dough! It took a few attempts because traditional water-based food colouring won’t work due to the oil content of the dough. Get the coloured cloud dough recipe here!

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More inexpensive, easy activities for kids:

• Homemade Giant Bubbles Recipe
• 2-ingredient Ghost Mud
• Homemade Watercolour Discs
• Expanding Ivory Soap Experiment
• Dino Dig – melting Ice with Salt

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Your kids will never be bored again! Jackie Currie

Jackie is a mom, wife, home daycare provider, and the creative spirit behind Happy Hooligans. She specializes in kids’ crafts and activities, easy recipes, and parenting. She began blogging in 2011, and today, Happy Hooligans inspires more than 2 million parents, caregivers and Early Years Professionals all over the globe.