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Making Rainbow Play Rice


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Dry rice makes a great medium for kids to play with. You can make a mini sandbox filled with rice that they can play in with trucks or action figures. White rice isn't very exciting though. It is very easy to dye rice whatever colors you want using food coloring.

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Supplies:

  • 12 cups of rice
  • 6 Ziploc bags
  • hand sanitizer
  • food coloring
  • glass pan or large garbage bag

Instructions:

  1. Place 2 cups of rice into each bag.
  2. rice divided up into Ziploc bags
     

  3. Add 5 pumps of hand sanitizer and 2-3 drops of food coloring.
  4. Adding hand sanitizer to bags of rice.
     
    Adding food coloring to bags of rice.
     

  5. Zip the bag shut and shake the bag to coat the rice. Add additional food coloring to achieve the desired color. Repeat with each bag.
  6. Mixing contents of bag.
     
    Bags of rainbow dyed rice.
     

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  7. Once you have finished coloring all of the bags, pour them into a large glass casserole pan or spread them out onto a large garbage bag. Allow the rice to completely dry, preferably overnight.

Rice drying in a baking dish.

 

Ideas for using your rainbow play rice:

By lalala... from Port Orchard, WA

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April 20, 20120 found this helpful

This is so clever! Thanks for the great idea!

 
April 23, 20120 found this helpful

Can this be later cooked and ate?

 
October 27, 20190 found this helpful

I wouldnt because there is hand sanitizer on them

 

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