Buddy announced last weekend he wanted to “do an activity”, which is his way of saying he wanted to try something a little different. After talking through some ideas, we decided to pull out our cloud dough. We did our digging for dinosaurs activity with cloud dough about a year ago, and we haven’t done it since then.

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The recipe for cloud dough is a 8:1 mixture of flour to oil. Originally, I made a batch with four cups of flour and a half cup of canola oil, and then I added a little bit more oil. I saved it in a Tupperware container, and a year later it was still the same texture! It was amazing! I decided to add another 2 cups of flour and 1/4 cup oil to give Buddy a little more cloud dough to play with.

I put the cloud dough in a 9×13 glass pan. Buddy asked to help bury the dinosaurs, and then he dug them out. He used a small spoon to dig and a small paint brush to brush them off. He had a lot of fun, but I was thinking of new things to do with the cloud dough.

Buddy still loves doing his construction site sensory bin, so I thought it’d be fun to put the CAT mini trucks into the cloud dough. Those trucks made the cloud dough so much fun! Buddy had the best time putting cloud dough into the dump truck and having his T-Rex drive it around.

I also pulled out a Dixie cup and helped Buddy make some sandcastles. The bulldozer and backhoe had a lot of fun knocking them down. Then we would make more sandcastles and start over again.

The cloud dough was so much fun, and I’m glad I pulled it out. It made a huge mess, but it was worth it. (I needed to clean my kitchen anyway.) Looking back at the pictures from our cloud dough activity last year, I wish I had thought to put Buddy in his apron, like I did then! He needed an outfit change when this activity was done (and I did too!) But we had a lot of fun together for an hour. It’s always great to do something special with materials I already have at my house.