3Y2M play with color

Lately we have been experimenting food coloring. 

I found a packet of animal shaped pastas (in fact, there were only four kinds of animals, elephants, lions, turtles, and giraffes) and on that afternoon we dyed 5 different colors.

I happend to read online about coloring your own pasta and the very next day a friend talked to me that she's been doing just the same. It literally took one minute to get the color on and how much ever time to let it dry. Easy! Why didn't I think about color before? It immediately donned on me that I could color water, ice cubes, rice, beans, play dough... oh you name it. 

Here is the how to.

Simply use a take out container or a ziplock bag for the process. I used the same one for all the five colors as the color was easy to wash off. I just rinsed and paper towel dried the container in between colors. You'd put in a bit of food coloring (both gel and paste worked fine), add a teaspoon or so of rubbing alcohol to dilute the food coloring, add the pasta, close the lid and last but not the least, SHAKE! Kodi helped with the shaking motions and she loved it!

 Orange and red worked the best while green somehow was hard to stick to the pasta. Purple and blue turned out to be a few shades darker than what I'd in mind. Nonetheless, colored pasta just look so much more fun and attractive than the plain kind. We lined them on recycled magazine papers to dry. Afterwards we just packed them up in individual ziplock bags and they are now ready for necklace/bracelet and paper plate crafts. 

This is one finished rainbow made of color pasta. We also made a necklace and a fall wreath with the orange ones. 

I also played with color water and Kodi was thrilled! She played with the big bowl of green water in the bathtub and kept saying "This is going to be fun!"

The ice cubes didn't work as well in this climate. They just melted too quickly at the balcony facing the afternoon sun! We will try to play with them indoor next time. I guess you could add these to a glass of water and drink it.. Honestly I thinkithey are fun to play but may be no to the mouth.