Cloud Dough

We recently made cloud dough after reading the post at Tinker Lab.  This is so easy and kids love it!  We had a 3rd grader, two pre-kindergarten students and a two-year old digging in, collaborating, and absorbed in play for over 20 minutes.  My kids and I have played with it often, and keep it stored in the garage so we can play outside and worry even less about clean up, but this stuff really is a nice sensory product.

 (This photo was taken on a different day, while the little man was busy digging in the dirt.)

I just googled cloud dough and found this blog with some variations.  I have a giant bag of flour from Costco and I bought some cheap baby oil (rather than using my more expensive olive oil supply) so this is a very inexpensive project.  I think we'll try the lower flour:oil ratio just to see what we get and of course my kids will LOVE adding glitter.  And of course we have lots of shells around, I'm not sure why I didn't think of using those before.  The silicone baking cups have been a big hit, too.

(Random photo of S waving good-bye to Daddy.)

I haven't done much sewing lately, except to alter some old clothes to fit my expanding baby belly.  Perhaps I'll take some photos eventually...