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    Follow the easy steps how to make cloud dough with this easy 2 ingredient cloud dough recipe. This cloud dough is toddler safe because it is made without baby oil or cornstarch. You can color it with a third non-toxic ingredient making it perfect for use in sensory bins or as sensory play.

    Let’s make this easy cloud dough recipe

    Best Cloud Dough REcipe for Kids

    Cloud dough is so lovely to the touch, kids will love running their hands through the bin of fluffy cloud dough, squeezing and shaping the dough and watching it crumble when they release it back into the bin. I’ll bet you won’t be able to keep your hands out of it either! Of all the homemade dough recipes we use in my daycare, Cloud Dough is one of the kids favorites.

    Related: Looking for cornstarch and conditioner cloud dough?

    Toddler-Safe Cloud Dough in a blue heap with plastic toys, shovels, and a heart mold.
    Shape it anyway you want!

    This cloud dough recipe is the best because:

    • It uses cooking oil instead of baby oil making it safer for toddlers to play.
    • It can be colored or left without coloring.
    • It takes less than 5 minutes to make and can be scaled for larger batches easily.
    • It uses flour instead of cornstarch.

    Ingredients Needed to Make Cloud Dough Toddler Safe

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    Toddler-Safe Cloud Dough ingredients, tempura paint powder, all purpose flour, and vegetable oil.
    You just need 3 ingredients for this simple cloud dough recipe: vegetable oil, all purpose flour, and tempura paint powder.

    Directions To Make Toddler Safe Cloud Dough

    Watch Our Video How to Make Cloud Dough

    Step 1

    Step 1 - How to Make Toddler-Safe Cloud Dough being mixed by wooden spoons in a bowl.
    Make sure you mix the ingredients for cloud dough well.

    In a large mixing bowl, stir together the cup of oil and flour.

    Step 2

    If you are going to color the cloud dough, add the Tempera paint, give it another stir. You can use different colors, it doesn’t have to be blue like mine. 

    Step 3

    Then using a pastry cutter or potato masher, work the dough for several minutes until the colour is uniform and the ingredients are soft, silky, and well-mixed.

    Playing With Homemade Cloud Dough

    Finished Toddler-Safe Cloud Dough being played with by kids by putting it in a heart mold, patting it, and digging it with a small shovel
    Pat it, roll it, dig it, there is so much to do with it!

    Transfer your dough to a shallow storage container (a dollar store kitty litter bin works well), and add spoons, scoops, bowls, cookie cutters, and plastic molds.

    Kids of all ages will have a blast stirring, mixing, scooping, pouring and molding their cloud dough. Even my older kids have of fun with moon sand. 

    Toddler-Safe Cloud Dough that looks like scoops of ice cream in a blue plastic cone.
    This cloud dough looks like an ice cream cone!

    This cloud dough won’t have that heavenly scent that it would if it were made with baby oil, but it still feels amazing, and your hands will be so soft after playing with it.

    You gotta love it when a few simple ingredients provide so much fun and exploration! Plus, this is perfect for any sensory bin or in general, cloud dough makes a great sensory activity. 

    Toddler-Safe Cloud Dough turned into a sensory bin with silicone cup cake molds, cups, shovels, and sticks.
    You could use this cloud dough for a sensory bin.

    Why We Made This Cloud Dough Recipe Toddler-Safe

    Traditional cloud dough is an amazing sensory substance that’s easy to make with just two ingredients – flour and baby oil.

    • As fabulous as it is, I often have parents ask me if cloud dough can be made with alternative ingredients so it’s safe for toddlers who aren’t yet past the stage of putting things in their mouths.  
    • For this recipe, I’ve swapped out the baby oil with an alternative ingredient, and I’m happy to report that the results were terrific making this an even better cloud dough recipe than the traditional one.
    • I found a way to colour it too. I’m just thrilled to share with you our toddler-safe, simpe coloured cloud dough recipe!

    How to Store Cloud Dough

    Store your cloud dough in an airtight container. The homemade cloud dough or sensory dough, whatever you want to call it will last much longer in an air-tight container. 

    Materials

    • 8 cups Flour
    • 1 cup Vegetable Oil
    • Heaping TBSP non-toxic Tempera Paint Powder

    Tools

    • Potato Masher or Pastry Cutter
    • Wooden Spoon

    Instructions

    1. In a large bowl, stir together the vegetable oil and flour.
    2. Add the Tempera paint.
    3. Give it another stir, then using a pastry cutter or potato masher, work the dough for several minutes until the colour is uniform and the ingredients are soft, silky, and well-mixed.

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    Did your toddler love playing with the homemade cloud dough recipe?



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