Cloud dough
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Flour and oil kneaded into a soft, moldable dough at 8 to 1, with colored and chocolate versions.
What You’ll Need
- Flour: 2 cups
- Oil: 1/4 cup (baby oil or canola oil preferred)
- 1 tsp candy food coloring (oil-based) for colored
- For chocolate: cocoa powder
- Large bowl
- Ratio: 8 to 1 flour to oil (1/8 cup oil per cup of flour)
Equipment
- mixing bowl
Directions
- Basic: put 2 cups flour in a large bowl, pour in 1/4 cup oil, stir, then knead by hand until completely mixed.
- Colored: first stir 1 tsp candy food coloring into the 1/4 cup oil, then add it to the flour, stir, and knead so the color spreads.
- Chocolate: make the basic dough, scatter in cocoa powder, and knead.
Notes
Don’t use coconut oil (it hardens as it cools). Water-based food coloring won’t blend into the oil and looks speckled. Play in a shallow bin, outdoors, or over a tablecloth.
Safety: NOT edible: raw flour can carry E. coli, and baby oil is mineral oil, which is dangerous if inhaled or swallowed. Supervise toddlers who mouth things; for them, a heat-treated flour and food-oil version is safer. Flour dust can bother kids with asthma or wheat allergy.