Wednesday, June 25, 2014

CLOUD DOUGH




Hi, everyone! Sorry I have not been blogging in a long time : ) Its hard to think up stuff to write. Well, any way, I wanted to share a cloud dough recipe with you guys.

I first got the idea to make this on an amazing blog called Growing a Jeweled Rose. Very awesome blog - so check out the link a the end of my post. Most of you probably don't know what cloud dough is, so I will explain it. It is moldable dough but is much softer than play dough. Here is the recipe.

You will need:
Seven cups Flour
One cup of oil (vegetable, olive)
(Optional) Scent and food coloring


Get a bin, bowl or any size container you want to use and put in the flour. It's about seven cups to each one-cup of oil. Then put in your scents and/or food coloring. I used cinnamon for hot chocolate cloud dough. No food coloring was needed. Then add oil land mix thoroughly.

With the cinnamon dough make a hot chocolate shop for kids to play with. Put in spoons, cups and glitter. Use cotton balls for marshmallows. Add learning by asking kids to give you a certain number of marshmallows for them to engage counting practice.

Also, for this activity you could substitute scented and colored rice for the cloud dough. I have not tried it yet but will try soon and make a future post about it. Explore with all kinds of scents and colors for more play.

Sorry I did not include pictures in this post, but I did not have my camera on me.

Until next time, hoot-hoot and have a hootsome day!

Link to growing a jeweled rose is here