Playful rice

The other day I made colored rice for R to play with in her play kitchen.  Her teachers at school said she LOVES table games, and particularly loves their sandbox and table.  So, I figured I would make this for her.  It actually started off with making art with colored water at school.  We tried it a home, and when we had left over water, I decided to through some rice in.

I later read that you should put vinegar in the water to slow its decay, but I of course didn’t do that.  I just used water.  This worked, but I did re-wash the rice in vinegar because it was starting to smell

Basically, you just make your colored water using regular old food coloring (or whatever you like) +/- vinegar.

Let them soak for some time, then rinse them and spread them out to dry.  You can use old newspapers or worse comes to worse, paper towels like I did.)   

And that’s it!  You are read to go with all your different colored rice!

Hope you have fun!