You will surely want to dig your hands into this! Cloud dough is an awesome and simple sensory play recipe that is quick to whip up! Our apple pie sensory play activity is also taste safe!  Cloud dough is quick sensory play and all the supplies are in your kitchen! I love the smells associated with Fall. Adding spices to sensory play is a great way to engage multiple senses at once.

SCENTED APPLE PIE SENSORY PLAY & HOMEMADE CLOUD DOUGH

Young kids love themed sensory play ideas for the changing seasons and holidays and there are tons of fun ways to engage little kids with sensory play while even including simple science concepts.

Adding apple and fall themes is the icing on the cake! You can see more of these great apple sensory ideas here or click on the picture below.

READ MORE ABOUT THE BENEFITS OF SENSORY PLAY AND SENSORY BINS

This is the easiest sensory play recipe! It’s a bit on the messy side, so you may want to be prepared by putting a blanket or tablecloth under your apple pie sensory bin! However, this will sweep up or vacuum up nicely.

Sensory bins and sensory play activities are a neat way to have fun and learn at the same time. You can pair activities with books or add letter/number activities to them! Sensory bins are also amazing for social/emotional development as well as practical life or fine motor skills.

Plus, sensory ideas are incredible tactile sensory put for kids who love to feel everything! Read more about all of these ideas in the resources below.

All About Sensory Bins

Ultimate Tactile Sensory Play Guide

How To Make Awesome Sensory Bins

APPLE PIE SENSORY PLAY RESOURCES

This recipe will make a taste safe sensory play material for all kids. It won’t be yummy and really shouldn’t be consumed like a snack. However, if you have kids who like to taste their play materials, this apple pie sensory play cloud dough recipe is a great alternative!

Only 2 basic ingredients, flour and cooking oil make it simple to make anytime. We added gems to our apple pie sensory play. Try apple chunks if you need a taste safe alternative! And of course we added spices!

MAKE SURE TO CHECK OUT: Pumpkin Cloud Dough too!

Flour

Cooking Oil

Apple Pie Spice {or combination of spices on hand}

Large Bin {for play}

Red Gems or Acrylic Apples from Craft Store or Apple Chunks {taste safe}

Bowls and Spoons for Apple Pie Making!

RECIPE FOR APPLE PIE CLOUD DOUGH

To make your apple pie sensory scented cloud dough, mix 5-6 cups of flour and one cup of cooking oil in a large bin. It will be messy at first!

The mixture should hold together pretty well when squeezed into a ball. It will be pack-able and mold-able too. Once completely mixed it becomes less messy on the hands.

Sprinkle in your spices to desired scent and get ready to fill the house with the wonderful smell of apple pies!

Add in red gems, small plastic apples, or even real apple chunks.

This scented apple pie sensory play is perfect for a Fall Day!

Cloud dough provides tons of tactile sensory play. Scented apple pie sensory play is also perfect for the body’s olfactory system! Spices are a a great way to incorporate scent into a sensory play experience! We love lemon scented rice and cinnamon scented rice too!

Great options for pretend play with our apple pie sensory scented cloud dough! Provide a pie plate for kids to make their own apple pies. We also love these two apple scented play dough recipes you can find here and here.

TRY: Apple Sauce Oobleck for a combination of science and sensory play.

If you are busy baking apple pies this Fall, keep your kids busy with their own apple pie sensory play baking experience!

We filled the dish with a “crust” and then we spread out the “apples”. It really felt like crust and since we were using flour and oil, it felt like we were really baking!

Now I can’t wait to make a real pie or crumble with him after we pick apples this fall. We scooped and filled and patted and spooned more crumble on top. Of course it had to bake (for like 10 secs) and we had to try spoonfuls of it!

It is fun to mold and holds it shape for a bit (not great for really sculpting though like play dough)!

We enjoyed about 45 minutes of apple pie sensory play which is great for young kids! You can easily leave it out for more play the next day. If the dough feels dry, add a touch of oil to get it to the right consistency again! We think it’s the perfect, last-minute sensory play idea!

Enjoy Fall with Apple Pie Sensory Play and Scented Cloud Dough!

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