{"id":2545,"date":"2017-12-14T02:57:16","date_gmt":"2017-12-14T02:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/saynplaycolumbus.com\/?p=2545"},"modified":"2017-12-14T02:57:16","modified_gmt":"2017-12-14T02:57:16","slug":"how-we-color-pasta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bestsidedesign.org\/snp\/index.php\/2017\/12\/14\/how-we-color-pasta\/","title":{"rendered":"How We Color Pasta"},"content":{"rendered":"

When it comes to sensory bins, I generally just dump different materials into the container and call it a day. With the holidays approaching, I decided to get a little more festive by coloring dry pasta red and green. It did take a few combinations in order to get the set up just right, so I thought I would share the combination that worked the best for us.<\/p>\n

Step One:<\/span><\/p>\n

Gather supplies: Pasta (different shapes and sizes), rubbing alcohol, gallon size plastic bags, and food coloring.<\/p>\n

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Step Two:<\/span><\/p>\n

Combine 16 oz dry pasta and 1 tsp rubbing alcohol into a ziplock bag. Shake it up to spread the rubbing alcohol evenly on the pasta.<\/p>\n

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Step Three:<\/span><\/p>\n

Add food coloring of your choice. I added 50 drops of food coloring to 16 oz of dry pasta.<\/p>\n

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Step Four:<\/span><\/p>\n

Spread the pasta out on a pan to dry. I let the pasta sit for 24 hours before adding to the bin.<\/p>\n

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Step Five:<\/span><\/p>\n

Add to your sensory bin of choice.<\/p>\n

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For this sensory bin I added string to give my daughter the opportunity to start stringing the pasta. I tied a piece of pasta to the end so the other pieces wouldn’t slide off and applied scotch tape to the other end so the string wasn’t flimsy. After a few examples of pushing the string through and then pulling out the other end, my daughter was able to make a necklace completely on her own. I did remind her to “pinch and pull” when the string was coming out the other end of the pasta.<\/p>\n

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When it comes to sensory bins, I generally just dump different materials into the container and call it a day. With the holidays approaching, I decided to get a little more festive by coloring dry pasta red and green. It did take a few combinations in order to get the set up just right, so […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-play-at-home"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestsidedesign.org\/snp\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestsidedesign.org\/snp\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestsidedesign.org\/snp\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestsidedesign.org\/snp\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestsidedesign.org\/snp\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bestsidedesign.org\/snp\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestsidedesign.org\/snp\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestsidedesign.org\/snp\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestsidedesign.org\/snp\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}