Friday 10 July 2009

Making a rainbow and treasure bottle

The last few days have been really fun because we've had G.A.S. (aka Great Auntie S) staying with us. We did lots of projects and even went to a castle!
A few days ago I was perusing some blogs and found this fantastic idea on Unplug Your Kids.
Coloring rice!!! Love it, love it, love it! It was so easy and all three generations had a great time making it. I won't write out the instructions as I've posted a link if any one wants to try this.

We decided to make a rainbow. First we put the food coloring in and shook up the bags. I put tape across the tops just in case. It was also really cool to do the secondary colors and see how the two colors blended to make a new one.


Once we had all the colors for our rainbow L layered them according to one of our favorite songs I Can Sing a Rainbow.


Here she is singing and pointing out the colors. (anyone who is really observant will notice we got two of the colors mixed up!)
We also made the "treasure bottle" from Unplug Your Kids. I took a picture of all of the objects so L can see what she has to find. I have to say this was a really fun project for me as well and I can imagine I will be trying to find all of the objects after L has gone to bed! : )





1 comment:

Montessori Moments said...

I actually made some of these for Christmas gifts one year using old wine bottles and bird seed.
My parents still have theirs sitting on the coffee table and it gets picked up by almost every visitor. (The dime I put in is almost impossible to find)

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