Great for Emma to take the naps but not so great for Michele and Grant who get a little cabin fever. So I have been doing lots of Pinteresting to find things for them to do.
We made ourselves some rainbow rice. Rice, food coloring, and a little vanilla extract. Perfect. I only had one bag of rice so we divided it in half and did red and blue colors.
Drying the rice.
I made some paper funnels and gave them a couple measuring cups and small plastic cups as well.
After we bought some more rice we made pink, purple, yellow, and green.
Now we have a fun rainbow of colors!
Yes, they make a mess EVERY TIME. But all it takes is a little sweeping and it is cleaned up. I have had them play with it outside before, but that ended up in a rice fight and they were just catapulting the rice at each other using stirring spoons. So now we just play inside where they KNOW that catapulting rice is OFF LIMITS.
