Shake It Like It's Hot

Make & Play Colored Rice

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• Does it offer an educational experience? Yes
• What does it teach? Experimentation, cause and effect, tool use, fine motor skills
• Is it age (i.e., 2 - 3 year old) appropriate? Yes

What You’ll Need:

• Rubbing Alcohol
• Rice and/or pasta
• Liquid food coloring
• Tupperware or ziploc bag
• Measuring cups or scoopers

Adult Prep Work:

1. Mix 1 tsp rubbing alcohol & 10 drops of liquid food coloring in a tupperware dish
2. Add 1 cup of rice or pasta
3. Put the lid on or seal

What Your Child Will Do:

1. Shake it to mix the color evenly over the rice or pasta
2. Let it sit to dry
3. Put it in a sensory bin or bowls & play

In one tupperware container, we mixed rice with red food coloring. In another, hard pasta (you can use alphabet or shaped pasta) and blue food coloring. My son loved shaking the containers. And they made such different sounds, which was fun.

Note: You should obviously keep the rubbing alcohol away from your child. But also do not open the bag or tupperware near your child after mixing as the smell is quite strong.