Sensory Dough
- Grades Pre-K
- Grades K-2
Discover the science of smell through this dough-lightful project! Stir together the flour-salt mixtures, scented oils, and colorful paints to create colorful dough perfect for sensory play. Then, explore how your sense of smell helps keep you safe, remember things, and even enjoy your food — after all, your nose knows best!
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Why it’s awesome
DIY Dough
Mix your own dough for hands-on sensory play.
Scent-sational
Use your sense of smell to explore 3 different scents.
What’s included?

Topics explored
Kitchen experiments
Multi-sensory learning
Science of smell
From the desk of the product designer:
Behind the design
“Squishing & kneading this scented, colored dough gives young ones a chance to explore tactile and olfactory senses in a novel way.”
- KiwiCo Product Designer
By the numbers
11
Dough recipes tested in development
6+
Scents smelled by our product designers
31
Colorful batches of dough made by our kid testers