Rice Play.

When the weather turns cooler, or Mr A has a cold I turn our water table into a coloured rice table.

Coloured rice is SO easy to make.

What you need: 

Cheap rice - I prefer Long grain.

Snap lock bags.

Food colouring.

Hand sanitiser.

I half fill a few bags depending on how many colours I want.

Then squirt a couple squirts  of hand sanitiser into the bag followed by a drops of food colouring - enough to get your desired colour - As you can tell I like our Bright - I have tried natural  food colouring but found I didn't like the colour result.

Close bag & massage rice until its all mixed repeat with other colours.

I find that the rice dries quite quickly - I just pop it on the table in the sun for an hour or so.

Mr M. loves to be the one that mixes the colours up. Mr A. loves to play dump trucks moving the rice around. As much as I encourage him to use the small trucks on the play table the rice always seems to end up in the good old John Deere & moved around the yard. 

This is great sensory play for young & old.

Enjoy.