2 Ingredient Cloud Dough Recipe | Little Bins for Little Hands (2024)
We first played with homemade cloud dough just over a year ago! It has an amazing texture, crumbly and moldable at the same time. Bonus, it has just 2 ingredients! Cloud dough can be a bit messy but cleans up easily and feels amazing on the hands. Cloud dough has to be one of our favorite sensory recipes.
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What is Cloud Dough?
Cloud dough is a simple recipe of two ingredients, flour and oil. The combination creates a silky mixture that can be packed and molded but is still crumbly. It is light and airy, and it doesn’t leave a sticky mess on the hands. Bonus, it sweeps up easily too!
There are two simple ways to make cloud dough. One istaste-safe(vegetable oil), and the other is this cloud dough recipe below{baby oil}. Both use only two ingredients and can be made in two minutes. All you need is flour and oil.
You may also hear cloud dough referred to as moon sand, although we have a different recipe for that too!
You can also make cloud dough bubble and fizz , smell like hot chocolate, or even Christmas cookies! Check out 10 fun variations of cloud dough!
PLEASE NOTE: This cloud dough recipe is not taste-safe! But you can easily make it taste safe by switching baby oil for cooking oil. Raw flour should not be consumed.
Ingredients:
Bin or container
5 cups of flour (we have used all kinds, including gluten-free and buckwheat!)
1 cup of cooking oil (or baby oil which is not taste-safe)
Play tools (we chose playdough accessories, kitchen tools, and a small plastic bowl)
How to Make Cloud Dough
STEP 1. Add flour to a bowl.
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STEP 2: Add oil to the flour and mix (optional add food coloring)
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You should be able to grab a chunk of the dough, mold it and have it hold. If not, you may need more oil. If it is too oily, add more flour!
STEP 3. Transfer the mixture to a clean baking pan or sensory bin to play! Add tools and play accessories to your moldbale dough, and it is time to play!
Scoops
Sand Molds
Playdough Tools
Potato Mashers
Cookie Cutters
Make a Cloud Dough Sensory Bin
This is an awesome sensory bin to dig your hands into! I love to play with it as well. It feels soft on the skin and doesn’t leave a heavy residue on the hand. Bonus, it sweeps up easily too! Add any of your scented extracts to it for scented dough.
It’s easy to add a theme! Add seashells for a quick beach sensory bin, themed cookie cutters for a holiday, or pirate treasure and go on a hunt. Construction vehicles are sure to be a hit as well.
Check out tons of sensory bin ideas!
This sea turtle is having a blast!
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Make another batch and add blue food coloring to the oil and tropical fish for an ocean theme! Now you have both a beach and an ocean.
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Why Sensory Play with Cloud Dough?
Soft, moldable, light, and airy… These characteristics make our cloud dough recipe an amazing sensory play material. Recently our homemade cloud dough is a real favorite for go-to sensory play activities.
Sensory play makes for awesome hands-on fun and learning for young kids as they explore and discover more about the world through their senses! Sensory activities can also calm a child, help a child to focus, and engage a child.
SENSORY PLAY IS IMPORTANT!
Sensory play helps a child explore, discover, and create using motor skills like dumping, filling, and scooping.
It is great for social and independent play; sensory activities allow children to play cooperatively or side by side. My son has had many positive experiences with other children over a bin of rice!
Sensory play increase language development. Kids get to experience with their hands all there is to see and do, which leads to great conversations and opportunities to model language.
Many sensory activities include a few ways to use the 5 senses! Touch, sight, sounds, taste, and smell are our 5 senses.
Sensory play recipes are calming for many kiddos who are anxious or worried. You might find that one works better than another for your kiddo. Some sensory play materials can settle and soothe, while others can help keep kids’ attention and connection with you.
More Fun Sensory Play Recipes To Try
Kinetic Sand
No Cook Playdough
Cloud Slime
Oobleck
Foam Dough
Dye Rice for Sensory Play
Free Sensory Play Guide
Are you Looking for more cool ways to explore the senses? Try these simple sensory recipes for sensory play. Grab the free sensory play guide and get started!
Mix in the hair conditioner with your hands–it will just start coming together and it will be pliable and very, very smooth. If desired, add a drop or two or food coloring.
You may need to add more conditioner as you go. Use food coloring to color as desired.
Start off with a little conditioner or shampoo in the bowl. Mix in some flour or corn starch and start folding the two ingredients together. Add in the food coloring of your choice. Keep mixing, rolling, and experimenting with the flour and conditioner until the dough comes together!
Add 1/2 cup of lotion to a bowl. Add 1-2 drops of the food coloring (if using concentrated gel, if using regular food coloring you'll need more drops to color) and mix. Mix the lotion and food coloring until combined. Add 1 cup of cornstarch and mix.
Store the cloud dough for future play in an airtight container. Really, this stuff doesn't go bad. You know you'll need to toss it when it gets impossible debris in it.
Have you ever heart about 'Cloud dough' and 'Moon sand'? It is basically the same thing: it uses the same basic two ingredients namely flour(of some sort) and oil(of some sort). What type of flour and oil you use could make it Edible, Gluten free etc.
- 1 part baby lotion or conditioner (we used 1/3 cup) - 2 parts cornstarch (we used 2/3 cup) - A few drops of food coloring (optional but. recommended!)
Two-ingredient dough consists of self-rising flour (a combination of all-purpose flour, baking powder and salt) and Greek yogurt. That's it. The baking powder in the self-rising flour gives the dough its quick rise; yogurt makes it tender and pliable for easy rolling.
You simply need to mix together 4 parts of flour with one cup of oil. To make homemade cloud dough that is baby safe, I use all purpose (plain flour) and vegetable oil, but any cooking oil will work.
The basic recipe for cloud dough is 1:8, oil to flour–for every cup of oil, add 8 cups of flour. This can be scaled down or up according to your needs (1/2 cup oil to 4 cups flour, 1/4 cup oil to 2 cups flour, 2 cups oil to 16 cups flour, etc.). The amount of color added depends on how intense the desired color.
Just mix baby oil and flour in a 1:8 ratio-- we used 1/4 cup baby oil and 2 cups flour--and you have cloud dough! It looks like flour, but it holds its shape when pressed.
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