Dinosaurs are basically my 2.5 year old favorite thing ever, other than work trucks. I hadn’t done a combination for the sensory table with dinosaurs yet. Luckily came across one of my friend’s posts on Instagram where she had this amazing idea!
I made homemade cloud dough out of flour and oil which was the perfect place to bury the dinosaurs for my son to find! I already had the dinosaur collection for my son, so just picked out some of the smallest ones so they would hide in the cloud dough easily. I didn’t have any of the cute sensory table set brushes (yet) so I just used an old clean makeup brush and it worked really well to wash the cloud dough/sand off. For the water I didn’t currently have any bath tablets so I just dipped in a crayola washable marker about 5 times and it dyed it blue, this of course isn’t needed and only for looks. For the “play area” I used pebbles and flattened blue marbles for the water in the play zone and random aspen wood slices for “trees”.
Dinosaur Dig Wash and Play
Items Needed
- Sensory Bins/ Sensory Tubs
- Pretend Play Dinosaurs
- Coconut/ Olive/ Vegetable Oil
- Flour / Rice Cereal
- Water
- Bath Color Tabs
- Brush (I used a makeup brush)
- Pebbles
Directions
- First I made the “cloud dough” I feel like it turns into more of a homemade-kinetic sand texture. I used 8 cups of flour and 1 cup of olive oil. You can use any kind of oil and it will work just fine! You can mix it all into a mixing bowl, at first i used a fork and then moved onto mixing it with my hands. Once I was able to form a ball with it I knew it was the perfect mixture. If you are just doing tubs or a smaller bin than what I did (which was the Flisat Table) use half the amount of flour and your oil. *another tip: use 1 tsp vanilla to make it smell better š
- Dump “cloud dough” into the sensory bin and hide dinosaurs- for extra “dirt” look i added a bit of chia seeds to the mixture as I was laying it out. Then I hid the dinosaurs under it for my son to unbury and find!
- Use pebbles and whatever else you’d like for the “playzone” for the dinosaurs.
- Fill another bin with water, you can use bath color tablets and make it extra blue just for fun!
- Make sure to grab some things around the house like a brush to dust the dinosaurs off and a small shovel for you child to dig out the dinosaurs!
Dino Dig 
Cloud Dough Mixing 
Dino Dig Wash n Play
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I made this and it really was easy enough even for someone who is not artistically inclined š
And I followed the tip by adding vanilla essence and my daughter said the sand smelled like cookie dough š
Lol! It did kind of smell like cookie dough! I’m so glad you liked it and your daughter got to enjoy it too!
Super cute idea and great for small kids!
thankyou! my son really loved it!