How to Dye Rice

Rice is a super fun sensory bin item that is also safe if ingested. You can choose any colors you looks to let your kids imagination soar!

Things You’ll Need:

• Rice (I went for the cheapest option from Aldi )

• Vinegar

• Food safe dye of choice

• Flat baking sheet

• Wax or parchment paper

We used a ziplock baggie to pour one cup of rice and one tablespoon of vinegar into. Then we added a little bit of dye.

Zip, shake and evaluate.

Add more dye if needed.

Once the desired color is achieved, pour the rice out to dry onto a baking sheet that you lined with wax or parchment paper.

We let ours dry for 2 hours while we played outside. Puppies were our first sensory bin theme and my daughter loved it!

For our lesson I paired this sensory bin with the book “In my Heart a Book of Feelings” by Jo Witek. A dogs love is unconditional so I thought this was a good pair to talk about love and feelings of the heart.