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Apple Pie Cloud Dough
sensory play for kids
This DIY Apple Pie Cloud Dough recipe is so simple and fun to make, plus it smells absolutely delicous!
Cloud dough-sometimes called moon sand-is a homemade mixture used for sensory play with kids. It’s soft and mold-able like playdough yet crumbly like sand.
Cloud dough provides hours of independent play and is incredibly beneficial to a child’s development.
This Apple Pie Cloud dough recipe uses only 3 ingredients and looks and smells like apple pie mixture-plus it’s taste safe!
Before you begin, consider reading a book about Apple Pie! After reading your child can recreate the pie making with the Apple Pie Cloud Dough!
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purpose
- builds new brain connections
- improves child's ability to absorb what they are learning
- sensory play has a calming effect
- helps improve memory skills
- develops fine motor and language skills
- encourages self control
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directions
How to make
Apple Pie Cloud Dough
Add 6 cups of flour to a tray
Add 1-2 cups of vegetable oil
Mix well
If too dry-add more oil
If too wet-add more flour
Mixture should be wet enough to be mold-able but dry enough to crumble
Add 1-2 Tablespoons of Pumpkin Pie Spice
Mix well
Add in play items such as cinnamon sticks, cupcake liners, cookie cutters, pom-poms, measuring cups, pie pans and spoons
Set out cloud dough tray for your child to play!
Before you begin-consider reading an apple themed book-perhaps a book about making Apple Pie!
Here is a link to my absolute favorite Apple Pie book: How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World! We’ve read it so many times it’s literally starting to fall apart!
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