How to Make Cloud Dough | Children's Museum of South Dakota (2024)

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How to Make Cloud Dough | Children's Museum of South Dakota? ›

This easy no-cook dough requires just 2 ingredients: cornstarch and hair conditioner. Easy enough! Mix equal parts together in a bowl. There is no cooking required and students can get their hands messy while helping to make it.

This easy no-cook dough requires just 2 ingredients: cornstarch and hair conditioner. Easy enough! Mix equal parts together in a bowl. There is no cooking required and students can get their hands messy while helping to make it.

You can use hair conditioner, baby oil, shampoo, hand lotion, body lotion, or baby lotion.

The recipe calls for 1 part conditioner and 2 parts corn starch. (So you put 2 times as much corn starch in as you did conditioner.)

Mix flour, baking soda, and vegetable oil to make the cloud dough. Use spray bottles or eye droppers to spray vinegar into the mixture and watch it fizz!

Making cloud dough is incredibly simple. All you need is flour and oil (baby oil or vegetable oil works well). The typical ratio is 8 to 1 of flour to oil, but you can adjust to get your preferred consistency. Add food colouring or glitter for a visual twist, or scented oils for a sensory boost.

Aside from being easy to make, cloud dough is also easy to store. In an airtight container, cloud dough can last months – and if the mixture starts to dry out, just add in a little more baby oil.

Have you ever heart about 'Cloud dough' and 'Moon sand'? It is basically the same thing: it uses the same basic two ingredients namely flour(of some sort) and oil(of some sort).

Continue to mix and knead the cloud dough fluff until it won't mix anymore! If you pick it up, it will hold a shape then crumble back down to the original soft dough. Because cloud dough fluff is made with 2 of the softest ingredients (baby powder and baby oil), it is incredibly silky and fun for kids to play with!

Add 1/2 cup of lotion to a bowl. Add 1-2 drops of the food coloring (if using concentrated gel, if using regular food coloring you'll need more drops to color) and mix. Mix the lotion and food coloring until combined. Add 1 cup of cornstarch and mix.

Can you put glitter in cloud dough? ›

One of our favorite summer activities is making homemade cloud dough. All ages love this stuff and it only takes 3 ingredients to make – Johnson's® Baby Oil, flour and a sprinkle of glitter. We used gold glitter to look like sparkling sand, but you can use whatever you have on hand.

Start off with a little conditioner or shampoo in the bowl. Mix in some flour or corn starch and start folding the two ingredients together. Add in the food coloring of your choice. Keep mixing, rolling, and experimenting with the flour and conditioner until the dough comes together!

Just mix baby oil and flour in a 1:8 ratio-- we used 1/4 cup baby oil and 2 cups flour--and you have cloud dough! It looks like flour, but it holds its shape when pressed.