Sometimes, all we need is a minute to breath. If your kids have been feeling especially irritable or anxious lately give this easy recipe for play a try!
Rosie and Jewel love cloud dough, and we have found all sorts of ways to make it over the years. Today, I added a bit of essential oil to the traditional recipe to make lavender scented cloud dough. Read on for the full tutorial.
Lavender is said to have therapeutic properties, often helping people to feel calm and soothed. I am not sure if the scent of lavender actually has this effect, but this activity definitely helped my little one to relax! This activity is especially great for time-out and for just before bedtime.
Rosie and Jewel love cloud dough, and we have found all sorts of ways to make it over the years. Today, I added a bit of essential oil to the traditional recipe to make lavender scented cloud dough. Read on for the full tutorial.
How to Make Lavender Cloud Dough
Materials- 8 cups of flour
- 1 cup of vegetable oil
- Lavender essential oil
- Optional: candy coloring
- Play bin/container
Method
- Add all of the ingredients into a large bin or play container and mix until combined.
- Add buckets/toys, and play can begin!
Playing with Lavender Cloud Dough
Cloud dough is an amazing sensory material in that it is super soft and fluffy, yet mold-able.
If acts like play dough but feels like sand, which is super cool! Besides that, handling sensory materials like cloud dough is relaxing in itself and can help to calm little ones.
Adding the scent of lavender provides another calming attribute, as many people find it soothing.
Whatever the reason this cloud dough really helps to chill-out my kids and refocus their energies in positive ways!Extend the Fun
- Calm kids down using lavender water beads.
- Make cloud dough that glows-in-the-dark!
- Make cloud dough in every color of the rainbow!
- Make holiday scented cloud dough.
- Store cloud dough in an air-tight container between play times, and it can be used again & again!
- You can use any type of cooking oil to make cloud dough. We used vegetable oil. Baby oil also works!
- The lavender essential oil that we used for this activity can be purchased on Amazon here.
- If you want to add color to your cloud dough you will need candy coloring, as traditional food coloring does not work.
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