My son’s beloved preschool teacher, Jodi, made batches of this colored rice last year as an alternative to sand for the nursery school playtable and the kids played with it for weeks. At our previous preschool, the colored rice was eventually rolled onto juice cans which had been covered in glue to make pencil holder gifts for Mother’s Day.
At home, I used a ten pound bag and divided the rice into four one gallon Ziplock bags. We dropped a different color of neon food coloring into each bag and gave it a really vigorous shake, then combined the whole colorful lot in our big playtable outside. It’ll probably be too much colored rice for us to use for crafts, but a quick Google search indicated that dried rice can at least be composted. Or maybe thrown in a hippie wedding?
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Love it and want it in our play table outside…How much food coloring per bag? And how long does it take to dry before you can use it?
Hi Anne – The rice dries almost immediately. We used different amounts of food coloring depending on the color. The blue looked vibrant with just a few drops but we used up almost the whole bottle of yellow trying to match the intensity of the blue. We used neon food coloring – I’m sure Mika will want to try the pink!