How to Make Cloud Dough Fluffy With Two Ingredients
I am telling you… this is one of the easiest cloud dough recipes out there.
The kids will love the fun they have while making this 2 ingredient cloud dough recipe. And you will love how easy and inexpensive it is to make!
If you have kids at home these days, you’re probably well acquainted with the rage of homemade slime and cloud dough..
Today I’m bringing you a super simple recipe about how to make cloud dough that only takes two ingredients – and you may already have them. If you don’t, they are inexpensive.. A Printable “recipe” is at the bottom of this post.
Learn How to Make Cloud Dough
Ingredients you will need to make cloud dough:
- Corn Starch
- Scented Conditioner
Any conditioner will do
but I like to stick with Suave because it is inexpensive and smells good. Today we’re using coconut. I’ve also used strawberry and it was wonderful as well.
- Measure out your corn starch into a bowl and add conditioner.
- Begin stirring until it’s well incorporated but crumbly and hard to mix.
Now we need to use our hands.
- Knead it together until it becomes smooth. Continue kneading until it’s fully blended and cloud like.
- Store in an airtight container when you’re not enjoying it.
Have fun with your cloud dough!
Ingredients
- 2 Heaping cups cornstarch
- 1 Cup Scented Conditioner I love Suave Coconut or Strawberry
Instructions
- Measure and add your cornstarch to a large mixing bowl.
- Measure your conditioner and pour into your bowl of cornstarch.
- Use a long spatula to mix your two ingredients until it gets hard to mix.
- Use your hands too finish kneading the dough together. One way I do this is to put it all in a gallon zipper seal bag and continue kneading it.
- Now it's ready for play!
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Notes
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Homemade Lemon Scented Play Dough!
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How much money I had in the bank
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What do I do when they make something you want to keep? just let it dry out?
This sounds amazing. I would love to make it with my special education class. Does it make a lot? Or is this recipe per person? Thanks!
Per person
This stuff is even fun for grown-up kids.
It really is!!
I have a 12 year old daughter that would love this. She is very creative and I can see her making sculptures from this. I would like to know if this is not kept in an air tight container will turn hard? Thank you so much for all your great recipes, inspirational postings, and all the great tips that you are so generous in sharing with us.
Yes it will.
This looks like such fun! My 6 year old grandson is coming to visit me in a couple of weeks. I know that he will love making this with me. Thank you so much for sharing this with us, Christy. You are such a blessing to so many.
Thank you so much Linda!! I hope you and your grandson have a great time making memories!!!
Is this stuff messy?
Yes, it is messy. I have made this with my 10-year-old daughter (who is an avid slime maker) and she found cloud dough to be fun at first, but it dries out VERY fast and gets crumbly. Honestly, we prefer to make doughs that last a bit longer.
We made ours in a large bowl and kept it in a covered container when they were playing with it. Had no issues. But as a mom, I hope all slime is somewhat temporary, otherwise my house would be overrun! 🙂
Whenever mine gets crumbly I just spray it with a little water, it does the trick
Great tip!
Thanks for the tip!
thanks for sharing Josie!
I love that this only has two basic ingredients! I wanted to let my daughter make it but wasn’t loving the ingredients since our skin absorbs chemicals. This is perfect
I hope y’all have a fun time and make lots of memories while making this!!!
Will adding food coloring to this , like they do with slime work with this recipe? I will get the ingredients so my granddaughter, also 12, can make it this weekend.
Yes you can definitely add food coloring. If it were me, I’d add it to the conditioner separately and stir it up real good, then proceed as directed. 🙂
Christy, what is the purpose of this fluffy dough. I never saw what they did with it after it was made. Thanks, Ruthy Wilson
It’s just something kids play with, like play dough or silly puddy. 🙂
I’d suggest adding a little green water based craft paint…food coloring stains your hands (and everything else) and befriends for days:(
We added food coloring to the dough and kneaded it in. If you want dark, rich colors similar to the colors of play-doh, it’ll take quite a bit of coloring. We used 9 drops of blue with the recipe in this post, and it came out as a shade that resembled sea foam.
Can you use flour instead of cornstarch?
We used flour and it worked