We Did Something FUN!

To begin, I should state that I got this idea off Pinterest and more specifically from this site. And it seemed just easy enough that I could remember all the ingredients and pull it off.

1-Rice   $10 for 20 lbs, more than enough

2- Large Bucket/Rubbermaid Thingy  $8 but you might have one if you check

3- Rubbing Alcohol $2

4- Food Coloring  $5

I was worried about the food coloring because the original blog poster said she used like 2 T of color. That seemed like a lot. I let Anna do the color and did not supervise super well, but we ended up with like half of each bottle, so not too bad.

Here was our set up, I measured the rubbing alcohol into the cup and the rice into the Ziploc (we only used one bag and just went through the colors in order, I didn't see it as a problem, more like a solution!) We also only used one color cup and didn't bother washing it either. This project was right up my alley.

 Anna was my colorist. She did a great job. After I poured in some rubbing alcohol (like 3T ish) she squeezed in the colors that I recommended.

 Here is red. We were doing Orange for our last color but it didn't turn out very orangy, more salmon. We do have more rice so I might try that one again. After we poured the liquid into the bag with the rice we mushed it around until it was all covered, then we poured it in the bucket! (The original blogger recommended spreading it out on a cookie sheet to dry. I did not do this. It is probably a good idea.)

 TA-DA! Isn't that some rainbow awesomeness?

 Eliza was ignored for an entire 20 minutes while we were doing this. She found a crayon and colored the fireplace tiles.

Eliza got to play for it for a minute, but she didn't understand the concept of keeping it in the box. That's like, the only rule. Well, that and not eating it. Two rules.

Anna loves her rainbow rice, she wants me to stop blogging and go play with her some more. that is all.