2 Ingredient Cloud Dough (Pinterest Inspired)

 

My kids love all kinds of play dough.  They could spend hours molding and playing with it.  Between our basic play dough recipe, this peppermint variation, and this pink lemonade variety, we are constantly making sensory doughs.  Especially now in the summer, we love having the time to experiment with play dough.

So when I came across this cloud dough recipe on pinterest, I knew we had to try it.  And what could be simpler than flour and baby oil?  

Basic Cloud Dough

8 c. flour

1 c. baby oil (we used lavender)

closable shoebox from Dollar Tree

Just mix it all together and store in an airtight container (we used a shoebox)!

Couldn't be any easier, could it?

The verdict?

The kids love it, especially my 8 and 4 year olds.  It's so soft and shapes well.  It really does live up to it's name; you feel like you're touching a cloud.  Plus the lavender scent is beautiful.  

So tell me...

Have you ever made cloud dough?

Summer Reading List ll 2026

 Fiction:

Emma by Jane Austen

The Melody of Love by Wanda E. Bunstetter & Lorine Bunstetter Van Corbach

Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

Non-Fiction:

Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus by Nabeel Qureshi

Holy Sexuality and the Gospel

by Christopher Yuan

Making Peace with What I Can't Control

by Lysa trekkers

Read Alouds:

The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt

The Mona Lisa Vanishes by Nicholas Day

The Pursuit of God by A.W. Tozer

What are you reading this summer?

Weekend Links ll June 19, 2026

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Do-It-Yourself: Key Lime Ice Cream

  *This post was originally published on 7/25/12.  Enjoy!

At the beginning of the year, I set 12 DIY Project goals for 2012.  July's challenge was to try out this yummy looking Key Lime Ice Cream recipe that I've had bookmarked for over a year.  To say that it was fantastic would be an understatement.  Notice the lack of photo this month?  That's because my son and I ate it too fast.  I kept meaning to go back and take a photo, but we couldn't keep our spoons out of it.  

I made a few changes based on our own tastes.  I like mine a little more sour so that was the first change, but all in all, it was one of my favorite recipes I've tried in a long time.  After all, summer is the season for homemade ice cream.  Plus the original recipe includes a link for making ice cream without a machine.  Couldn't be simpler.  Here's the yumminess we came up with:

Key Lime Ice Cream

1 1/2 c. whole milk

1 c. bottled Key Lime juice (I may have even used 1 1/2 c.)

1 c. heavy cream

1 can sweetened condensed milk

Optional: Coursely crushed graham crackers, key lime wedges

Combine milk, Key Lime juice, cream and condensed milk.  

Freeze according to manufacturer's directions.

Crush 1/3 c. of graham crackers and mix into ice cream near the end of freezing.  Transfer to a freezer safe container and freeze for 1 hr or until set.  Serve with crushed graham cracker topping and key lime wedges.

Weekend Links ll June 12, 2026

 

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