How To Make Cloud Dough

November 11, 2022 By: Sweet Frugal Life2 Comments

Easy two ingredient cloud dough recipe.

I recently learned how to make cloud dough and am so in love with how easy and quick it is to mix together!

If you are looking for a fun, cheap activity for your kids to do at home, then I highly recommend you try this two ingredient cloud dough recipe. It takes about 5 minutes to mix together, only requires two ingredients, and will provide hours of fun for your little ones.

The dough is soft, smooth, silky, and moldable. And addicting…seriously! I love squishing it through my fingers for hours and hours.

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One of the best parts of this recipe is the fact that it only requires two ingredients….and they are both cheap ingredients…..in fact you probably already have them in your house right now! Win, win and win!

Ingredients Needed:

To make this quick cloud dough you will need:

Supplies Needed:

You will also need these two basic supplies:

Homemade Cloud Dough Recipe

In a small bowl mix together:

1/2 cup hair conditioner
1 cup cornstarch

Use a spoon to stir the conditioner and cornstarch together. You might need to add a little more corn starch or a little more hair conditioner, you’ll just have to use a little bit of trial and error as you find the best consistency for you. It’s better to have the dough a little more dry than wet.

Once the cloud dough is mostly completely mixed together you will need to knead it with your hands together to make it nice and smooth.

If you would like to add a few drops of food coloring at this point, you are welcome to. I usually just let the color of the hair conditioner be the color of the cloud dough. But using food coloring will give it a much more vibrant color.

It only takes a few minutes of kneading before your dough is ready to play with. You’ll know it’s ready once you a soft, silky, and smooth dough.

Feel free to get out a few cookie cutters, knives, spoons, forks, rolling pins, and anything else you think sounds fun to let your kids cut and smooth and imagine with the homemade cloud dough.

After you’ve made this cloud dough recipe you might enjoy a couple of my other favorite play dough recipes:

Peanut Butter Play Dough
Classic Play Dough (best recipe I’ve ever tried….and I’ve tried a lot of recipes!!!)

Cloud Dough

A quick and fun play dough recipe for kids to play with at home.

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Prep Time 5 minutes mins

Ingredients

1 cup cornstarch
1/2 cup hair conditioner
2-4 drops food coloring optional

Instructions

Stir hair conditioner and cornstarch together in a small bowl.
Once mixed begin kneading the dough with your hands until it becomes soft and smooth.
If desired, add a few drops of food coloring to finished dough and mix through.

Have fun!

Now that you know how to make cloud dough it’s time for you to have fun playing with it with your little ones. I love cheap and quick activities for kids to do at home. They are some of the best ways to make memories, while on a small budget.