Cloud Dough

This was one of many activities I have had suggested to me by a great reception class teacher. I love to sit with the children and get our hands buried into something messy. Little man was able to get his hands in first to get used to it before P dived in with some of her toys. 

 

While little man was busy flicking the dough up using the animals and feeling it with his finger tips P was sqeezing the dough into balls. Accord to P the dough felt like wet sand and held its shape pretty well. Little man was soon trying to grap P's balls and squash them so in the end P pushed them down on to the bottom of the fruit bowl. After a little bit of a hint from mummy P passed her brother an animal and showed him how to make animal prints in the dough.

By the end of the activity little man had tried to eat quite a bit and had it all around his mouth while P had managed to get more on the floor than she had kept in the bowl. Never heard of cloud dough?

Here's the ingredients: 

1 part baby oil

8 parts plain flour 

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