• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
Craftulate logo
  • Art
  • Crafts
  • Fine Motor
  • Food
  • Play Recipes
  • Sensory
  • Gross Motor
  • DIY Crafts
  • DIY Gifts
  • DIY Projects
  • Inspiration
    • DIY Guide
    • Parenting
    • Learning Resources
    • Product and Service Opinions
menu icon
go to homepage
search icon
Homepage link
  • Art
  • Crafts
  • Play Recipes
  • Food
  • Fine Motor
  • Sensory
  • Gross Motor
  • DIY Crafts
  • DIY Gifts
  • DIY Projects
  • Inspiration
    • Parenting
    • Learning Resources
    • Product and Service Opinions
×

Beach Themed Cloud Dough

This crumbly, yet moldable cloud dough is a new substance for us – and to combat the winter blues I decided to make it beach themed!

Beach Themed Cloud Dough

The following post contains affiliate links, which means that at no extra cost to you I can make a tiny bit of money to help support this blog. Thank you!

Snow is everywhere here. It’s cold, we haven’t been to the park in months. I decided to put us in a summery mood – if only for a short while!

I checked out many cloud dough recipes -essentially it is made from oil and flour – but I saw variations with baby oil, vegetable oil, flour, cornstarch and many different ratios. I had one bottle of dollar store baby oil and decided to add as much flour to it as I needed in order to make a dough that I liked. Because of the beach theme I wanted to make it yellow and came across a method of colouring it from Growing a Jeweled Rose using powdered chalk – and as it happened, I still had the leftover powdered yellow chalk from our Chalk Spray Painting activity!

This was my final ingredients list:

  • 1 small bottle of baby oil (6.5 fl oz or just over 1 cup) *
  • 3.5 cups of white flour
  • 2-3 tbs yellow powdered chalk

* If you are making this cloud dough for little ones who put everything in their mouth, replace the baby oil with vegetable oil (or similar).

Beach Themed Cloud Dough

I put the cloud dough into a dish and added some sea shells and a scoop. The baby oil made the dough smell a bit like suntan lotion! And yes, we still have our snowflake tablecloth but I say “pah!” to the winter today!

Beach Themed Cloud Dough

The dough is crumbly yet moldable. Not exactly like wet sand, more like slightly damp sand. In fact if you’ve ever rubbed flour and butter together in your finger tips, it’s pretty similar. Which is not really a surprise, now I think about it!

Beach Themed Cloud Dough

F has been trying to make sandcastles with beans from his Dried Bean Sensory Table – but as you might imagine they haven’t been that successful. So he enjoyed making sandcastles with this sand dough.Beach Themed Cloud Dough

We also made some sandcastle towers together!

Beach Themed Cloud Dough

Mess free, this is not. Due its crumbly nature, it is all too easy to crush a molded ball of the cloud dough and then bits fly everywhere. And it gets stuck in your fingernails way easier than regular play dough.

The next day he played again! Again he didn’t get stuck in with his hands, but we’re working on that!

Pin56
56 Shares

More Play Recipes

  • Spring Slime
  • Nerf Slime
  • Letter Hunt in Sensory Dough
  • Coconut Play Dough
Pin56
56 Shares

Primary Sidebar

Latest Crafts for Kids

  • Everything You Need to Know About DIY Custom Patches
    Everything You Need to Know About Custom Patches
  • Finger Painting with Slime
    Finger Painting with Slime
  • Educational Resources You Can Use to Balance Parenting and College
    Educational Resources You Can Use to Balance Parenting and College
  • How To Work With An Autistic Child On Your Own
    How To Work With An Autistic Child On Your Own?

Footer

↑ back to top

About

profile

Hi, Thank you so much for taking the time to stop by and explore Craftulate!! This blog was started in January 2013 and offers a wide range of arts, crafts, activities, fun games, printables for toddlers, young children and kids of all ages. Find More

Contact

  • Contact
  • Advertising
  • Privacy Policy and Disclosure

Craftulate is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites.

Copyright © 2022 Craftulate - Art and Crafts for Kids