Comments on: Tiny – Cool Colored Rice: An all-ages project!! (Weekly Unplugged Project)

By: Mama to 3 Blessings - Our Hoemschool Blog

Mama to 3 Blessings - Our Hoemschool Blog — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 12:59:31 +0000

I love this idea! I am going to use this & make a texture / sensory box for my toddler as well as using it for him to pour.
Thank you! :)

By: Treasure Jars – The Letter “B” (Weekly Unplugged Project) | Unplug Your Kids

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:25:52 +0000

[...] and “B”? The children decorated their jars with dried beans and barley (and some of our colored rice, not “B,” but pretty!). The Unplugged Project is as flexible as you need it to [...]

By: Mom Unplugged

Mom Unplugged — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 02:51:17 +0000

Hi Tamara,
Great question! This particular rice is for crafts only (especially if you decide to use the rubbing alcohol, obviously). By the way, we have made a few more batches of rice since this post without alcohol and they turn out fine.

I think it would be fun and entirely possible to color rice for eating. I would Google for natural, food-based dyes. For example, red onion skins make things purple. It might impart a bit of an onion flavor to the rice though (OK if you like onions).

As for cooking, my thought would be that you would perhaps boil down the dye material (onion skins for example) and then cook the rice in the liquid so the cooking process itself would color the rice.

Hmm…I might have to try this! Please let me know if you experiment and discover something wonderful, I’ll post your findings!

Thanks for the comment!

By: Tamara

Tamara — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 02:41:21 +0000

Is this rice intended for craft purposes only? We generally don’t let our kids eat artificial colors, but I wonder what happens to the colors when you cook it? Do they mute, get brighter, disappear? Maybe we could experiment with natural coloring? (Sometimes we color our cooked rice with saffron or turmeric, but I wonder what other dry natural colorants we could use?)

By: Mom Unplugged

Mom Unplugged — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 14:25:29 +0000

Let me know how yours turns out! Thanks so much for the nice comment!

By: Zue

Zue — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 05:52:17 +0000

Beautiful! I love your project. I am working on one with my students and this is an inspiration. Thanks!

By: Container – Homemade “Find It” Jar (Weekly Unplugged Project) | Unplug Your Kids

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 00:17:14 +0000

[...] post is sort of a follow-up to last Sunday’s Tiny – Cool Colored Rice post. The rice coloring was such a fun project in and of itself, that I decided just to focus on that. I chose this [...]

By: Mom Unplugged

Mom Unplugged — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:29:06 +0000

Hi Patti, I am sure the kids would love this activity. Let me know how it goes!

By: Dawn

Dawn — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:51:38 +0000

I love it! I can’t wait to try it. I am thinking red white and blue rice for the fourth! Very cool indeed.
Blessings,
Dawn
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By: Patti

Patti — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:13:09 +0000

We use colored rice at school in the sensory tables. The kids love it. I think this year I might try coloring it WITH the kids. I usually just use the really large tub of stuff that someone else has already colored. Thanks for posting with such great photos!
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