12 months of sensory dough: cloud dough

It's the second month of "12 Months of Sensory Dough" and this month is Cloud Dough!

We made our dough while cousin Adele was visiting, so it provided a lot of fun for the girls. 

 

Again, I had never made any homemade dough before joining this challenge.  So the cloud dough was completely new to me. 

 

First, I set out to find a recipe....I only looked at one blog and it was one google had found for me.

You can find the recipe I used here.

 

After looking further, it seems all recipes use an 8:1 ratio of flour and oil for the recipe.  Super easy and I love it when I have the ingredients in my pantry! So this cost me a total of zero dollars:)

The recipe says baby oil...but I don't have that. So we used vegetable oil.

 

Lemon Lime Adventures is the home blog for sensory dough series and lists other blogs that are participating.

 

Our ingredients:

Tried adding food coloring but it didn't work.  Also added glitter later and that didn't do much either.

 

 

Step 1: Make a flour "mountain"

Step 2: Make a hole in the top of the mountain and pour the oil in.

The girls were very serious about their mountain making.

Step 3: MIX and get MESSY! :)

To go along with our birthdays and also our BFIAR book, Ask Mr. Bear, the girls made cupcakes with the dough

Adele adding sprinkles

concentrating hard

Having a great time!!!!

Again, this dough didn't turn out the way all the pinterest pictures look.....but the kids LOVED it and that is all that matters!!! It was messy, but easy to clean up.  And doesn't contain anything that they couldn't eat which is nice--since that is always a big temptation--especially when sprinkles are added;)

12 Months of Sensory Dough: Foam Dough

I saw this link up on a blog that I follow.  I've never done a link up before, so I'm not even sure I'm going to do this right!
I've also never made homemade dough before, so that is why I was up for the challenge! I always see these recipes on pinterest but have never attempted them.  I thought one a month seemed like a great idea and I know the kids will love it. 

So each month there is a new dough recipe to try and then post about.  I will post the link where I got the recipe and then post about our outcome. 

January is: FOAM DOUGH

 

 

I liked this dough to begin with because we already had the supplies at home.

 

 

Shaving Cream + Cornstarch = Foam Dough

 

 

I searched a few blogs for recipes but they were all pretty much the same.  So I just went with the recipe and instructions from the blog I follow: Delightful Learning

(This blog is one of the featured bloggers with the 12 months of dough and was how I found out about the 12 months of dough idea.)

Another recipe for rainbow foam dough was linked up as well, and said it is a one to one ratio for the shaving cream and cornstarch

 

 

This proved to be messy! But messy is always fun for toddlers!

I didn't have much cornstarch, so I was a little stingy at first. 

After putting cornstarch in the bowl, we headed outside. I added the shaving cream (equal to cornstarch) and food coloring

The kids had so much fun mixing and playing with the colors!

But it just wasn't getting 'doughy' at all.  So I added the rest of the cornstarch that we had and we tried to put it on the cookie sheet to form it more into a dough

It never did get to a consistency that they could really form anything. BUT, even though I thought it was a fail--they knew no different and had a BLAST! They were 'making it snow' and throwing it around in the grass.  It was great fun and an easy clean up.
 

Looking forward to next month's dough and I will be a little more prepared this time so we have enough of all the ingredients to fully experiment.

 

February is: Cloud Dough

So find a recipe and join in the fun!