Pumpkin Cloud Dough

What would it feel like to touch a pumpkin cloud?  Could you hold it, mold it, or maybe even squish it?  We sought to find out the answer to this 3-year-old question using a few ingredients from our pantry and a little bit of imagination.  Read on to see how you can easily make pumpkin cloud dough at home.

Cloud dough is an incredibly fun play material for kids.  It is squishy, mold-able, and so soft it feels like clouds, or at least what we imagine clouds to feel like.  Cloud dough can also be stored after play and used again and again!  Are you ready for the recipe?

HOW TO MAKE PUMPKIN CLOUD DOUGH FOR KIDS PLAY

Materials

• 7 cups of flour
• 1 cup of cooking oil
• Pumpkin spice
• 1/2 cup paint powder (optional)

Method

• Begin by combining the dry ingredients in a large container or sensory bin.

• Add the vegetable oil and mix until combined.  It takes a bit of elbow grease to fully mix the oil into the flour, but after some kneading you will be left with a slightly damp, mold-able play material commonly referred to as cloud dough.  

Give kids kitchen gadgets, sand toys, diggers, and whatever else you might have on hand to make things fun.  

Even if given a bin of pumpkin cloud dough by itself kids are sure to have a blast!

Extend the Fun

• Make a cloud in-a-jar.
• Experiment with rain clouds.
• Make cloud dough that glows!
• Get in the holiday spirit with this cloud dough recipe.
• Make rainbow cloud dough.
• Experiment with rainbow rain.
• Chill kids out during difficult times with calming cloud dough.
• Make pumpkin moon sand.
• Turn real pumpkin into play dough.
• "Magically" grow a jack-o-lantern.
• Give these pumpkin activities for kids a try!

A Few Tips: 

• If you do not have powdered paint on hand and would like to color your cloud dough you can make paint powder using chalk.
• Store cloud dough in an air-tight container between playtimes, and it can be used again & again!

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