Last week I dyed Rosalie lots of rice so that we could have some sensory play time together.

I followed a ‘recipe’ from Happy Hooligans.

What do you need?

• 1 cup of cheap white rice per colour
• 1/2 teaspoon of white vinegar per 1 cup of rice
• A few drops of food colouring
• A plastic tub with a lid
• A baking tray to dry the rice on

How do you dye the rice?

1. Measure one cup of rice into your plastic tub.
2. Add half a teaspoon of vinegar and a few drops of your chosen food colouring.
3. Put the lid on your tub and shake it… shake it…. shake it…
4. Shake until all the rice is coloured.
5. Dump the rice out onto your baking tray.

Repeat steps 1-5 with each colour, then leave your rice to dry on the baking tray for a day.

We used our coloured rice to make a sensory shaker as Rosalie is still in the ‘everything goes in the mouth’ stage, but I have grand plans for the rest of it, which is currently stored in a large air-tight plastic tub.