How to make pumpkin spice & orange colored sensory rice

I have been wanting to try the colored rice with my son for some time now.  I am so cheap sometimes  that not until I had to put my sons hand held radio in a bag of rice( because he threw it in the tub filled with water) to dry it out did I know we would try colored rice!  When the radio had dried out,  it did work after doing this:-), I set the rice aside until I knew what I wanted to do with it.  Well, this week was the week the idea came to me for pumpkin spice orange colored rice.  Here is the how to on what I did to create orange and pumpkin spice rice.


What you need:  a few cups of rice( you can use as little or as much rice as you want), food coloring, water, pan ( or a metal or glass bowl), spoon, newspaper, and pumpkin spice.

What to do:  put the rice in the pan.  Then in a small bowl put 5 Tbl of water and mix in food coloring( I have a gel orange food coloring I used and we squeezed about 2-3 drops out).  Add the mixture to the rice.  Now stir until blended.  Add a few sprinkles of pumpkin spice and mix again.  My rice was slightly wet.  I then transferred it to newspaper to dry overnight.

My son got to help me make this and he had fun pouring in the color and mixing it up.

The next morning we had a fun new sensory substance to play with.  Now for the fun part, deciding how we want to play!  Will post back later what we came up with.


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