Rice Rainbow

Turn rice any color of the rainbow with food coloring and hand sanitizer. Then, make a rainbow!

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Have you ever dreamed for you own rainbow?


Let's Get Started!

 

1
Make red rice.

Put one handful of rice, two squirts of hand sanitizer and three drops of red food coloring into a plastic bag. Shake it up!
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2
Let rice dry.

Lay out the rice on newspaper to dry for about an 25 minutes.
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3
Make orange rice.

Put one handful of rice, two squirts of hand sanitizer, two drops of yellow and one drop of red into a plastic bag. Shake it up!
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4
Let rice dry.

Lay out the rice on newspaper to dry for about an 25 minutes.
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5
Make yellow rice.

Put one handful of rice, two squirts of hand sanitizer and three drops of yellow food coloring into a plastic bag. Shake it up!
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6
Let rice dry.

Lay out the rice on newspaper to dry for about an 25 minutes.
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7
Make green rice.

Put one handful of rice, two squirts of hand sanitizer and three drops of green food coloring into a plastic bag. Shake it up!
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8
Let rice dry.

Lay out the rice on newspaper to dry for about an 25 minutes.
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9
Make blue rice.

Put one handful of rice, two squirts of hand sanitizer and three drops of blue food coloring into a plastic bag. Shake it up!
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10
Let rice dry.

Lay out the rice on newspaper to dry for about an 25 minutes.
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11
Make purple rice.

Put one handful of rice, two squirts of hand sanitizer, one drop of blue food coloring and two drops of red food coloring into a plastic bag. Shake it up!
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12
Let rice dry.

Lay out the rice on newspaper to dry for about an 25 minutes.
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13
Make a C.

Make a big C with glue on a piece of white or black construction paper.
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14
Sprinkle red rice.

Sprinkle the red rice onto the glue and let dry for a couple minutes.
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15
Sprinkle orange rice.

Draw another C with glue under the red rice and sprinkle the orange rice.
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16
Sprinkle yellow rice.

Draw another C with glue under the orange rice and sprinkle the yellow rice.
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17
Sprinkle green rice.

Draw another C with glue under the yellow rice and sprinkle the green rice.
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18
Sprinkle blue rice.

Draw another C with glue under the green rice and sprinkle the blue rice.
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19
Sprinkle purple rice.

Draw another C with glue under the blue rice and sprinkle the purple rice.
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20
Add clouds.

Add a couple cotton balls for clouds!
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