STEAMwork | sensory play
cloud dough
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Use everyday ingredients to bring fun-in-the-sun into your home! In this week’s STEAMwork sensory play, make your own cloud dough, or kinetic sand, and learn about some of the fun chemistry behind what makes it stick.
materials
a measuring cup
a large bowl
a fork, spatula, or your hands to mix everything together
5 cups of flour of any kind
1 cup of oil of any kind
to make it safe for our youngest learners, use cooking oil, like olive oil or vegetable oil
additional resources
Silicones are polymers, or molecules made up of long chains of repeated units. This property is known as viscoelasticity.
Once you have your kinetic cloud dough, try molding the kinetic dough into shapes or slicing it with a plastic knife.
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podcast
STEAM Daydream with National Children's Museum, a podcast that elevates children’s voices and answers their biggest questions.