I recently read that it is dangerous if kids or pets ingest the commercial mouldable sand and, while I don’t believe everything I read, I wanted something that I was sure was non-toxic – my nephew Liam has yet to meet an object he wouldn’t like to taste.
For those of you new to cloud sand, it is a mouldable powder similar to the kinetic sand you buy in stores. It is just much softer and easy to whip up at home.
The texture is not exactly like kinetic sand; it’s much lighter and fluffier, more of a mouldable powder than anything else. It cost me about R40 for roughly 2kgs of the stuff and I still have ingredients left over for a second batch.
What you need
8 cups of flour
1 cup of cooking oil 
A half a cup of non-toxic powder paint (the kind you mix with water to form poster paint/ powdered food colouring is even better)
A sealable tub (it helps to seal it in the container they will be playing in, much less mess with back and forth)–
Small beach toys
Measuring cups
Big spoon
What to do
Mix the flour and coloured powder of your choice (TIP: normal food colouring is water-based so will form clumps)
Add oil and mix.
Add toys . . . and TAH DAH!!!! Instant fun for kiddies.