Mix a couple dishes full of rice,
A few drops food coloring,
A few treasures, and what have you got?
Rainbow Rice!
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Hey Alissa, Does that get the color on their hands at all? Not that it’s a big concern of mine (my little one that would really enjoy this often walks around with marker on her face and hands, lol) but I am curious.
We started out stirring with a spoon and the rice absorbed the color very
quickly. The kids might have gotten a tiny bit of color on them…but not
much since I don’t recall their hands being colorful.
Thanks for this. Did this today with my kindy class as part of a healthy food day. They loved it. I mixed the food colouring in front of them with gloves in a sensory play trof. The rice quickly absorbs the colour. We gave them measuring spoons, cups jugs and tong to play with. The other activity was painting with spaghetti
I assume this is meant to be cooked and eaten then? or no? Not trying to be a downer about this fun craft but food coloring might actually be a bad thing to be feeding kids. My younger brother acts like a crazy child after eating it, and studies have linked it to ADD like behaviors. I haven’t personally researched the topic (my mom has) but I can imagine hyper active kids is the last thing any parent/teacher wants
and I do know food coloring is in soo much food so its hard to avoid all together, but its something to look into if its of interest to you.
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