The kids all gathered on the kitchen floor, much easier to contain mess and clean, and prepared to make cloud dough... none of them knew what was coming!
We scooped 4 cups of plain all purpose flour into trays. Flour on its own is soft and fluffy, but when we added 1/2 cup of baby oil and mixed super well, the dough was silky and no longer stuck like flour!
We could mould it and play with it and the couldy softness just got more fun!
TO make the dough pretty we added sparkles... perhaps a little more than we planned! The added sparkles intrigued some of the little ones that weren't too sure about getting messy and they were soon all mixing and playing with the cloud dough.
What we discovered with this experiment was that a) flour mixed with baby oil creates soft silky playful dough, b) flour mixed with baby oil is just as messy and not so great for anyone wearing black, c) that even after vaccuming up the could dough the floor was left super slippery, but very shiny!, and d) cloud dough should be played with outdoors.
It was a fun morning and the kids had a blast. And thank goodness for me, none of the moms minded the messy floury pants!
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