Cloud Dough:))

This week our sensory activity has been Cloud Dough.  Be warned though, there is something a bit addictive about running your fingers through it that you might find it difficult to share it with your little ones!

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!

So what's so special about Cloud Dough?
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)