I did these pictures with the girls the other day. Since I had a rough day at work, I don't want to blog about my rough day... So, on to happier times :0)
To make these pictures, the night before, this is what we did:
6 bowls filled with 1/2 cup white rice
add 1 tsp of vinegar and 6 drops of food coloring to each bowl of rice
These are the colors we did:
blue
green
red
yellow
purple (mixed the red & blue)
pink (put less red drops in the rice)
The girls each took turns stirring the rice to coat it evenly (or unevenly) with color. Then, we spread the rice on foil on a baking sheet. We kept our colors separated, so I had to use two baking sheets. Then, we baked it at 250 degrees for 30 minutes to set the color.
The next day, I put the rice into cups. I drew the hearts on their paper, and filled the heart with a thin coat of Elmer's glue. They did the rest themselves. They poured a little blue on, and then a little red, and so on. They loved this project, and the mess really isn't that bad (just a quick move with the hand vac).
1 comment:
How fun! You can color elbow macaroni or penne pasta the same way and string it on yarn to make jewelry, or glue it on paper to make pictures like you did with the rice. If you have paper bags and construction paper, between the pasta and the paper and some glue and yarn you can make whole costumes to play dress-up in!
-Anne
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