Taste-Safe Rainbow Spaghetti is a fantastic sensory bin for babies and toddlers. It will help them to develop fine motor skills, vocabulary, and more. Learn how to make rainbow spaghetti with this easy recipe.
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Color Activities for Kids
To help your toddlers and preschoolers learn their colors, try some of these other color play ideas.
- Walking Water STEM Activity for Kids
- Color Wheel Art for Kids
- Color Match and Clip Cards
- magnetic color sort puzzle
- Paper plate color match activity
- Easy Paper Plate Rainbow Craft
- Color Matching Flowers
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For more ideas, check out this list of 25 Color Crafts and Activities for Kids
Materials Needed
- Spaghetti
- 1 Tbsp. Vinegar
- 10 drops Food Coloring per color
- Ziplock Bags – 1 per color
- Water
How to make Taste-Safe Rainbow Spaghetti
Step 1: Boil a pot of water and cook the spaghetti according to the package directions.
2. Drain the pasta and let is cool.
3. In a Ziplock bag, place 1 Tbsp. vinegar, 10 drops of food coloring and 1/6 of the cooked spaghetti.
If the spaghetti doesn’t get covered thoroughly or if you want the colors to be brighter, then add in more vinegar and food coloring. It’s easy to adjust the colors as you go until you get what you want.
4. Close the bag and shake it until all of the spaghetti is covered in color.
You can let your baby or toddler help you with this step. They love getting involved in the preparation of the activity as well as playing with it once it’s ready.
5. Let the spaghetti dry on a plate for 5 minutes
This helps the color to set and protect your babies clothes from staining.
6. Enjoy playing
If you’re trying this activity with toddlers, include some extra tools, such as tongs or scissors.
I gave my toddler some scissors so that he could practice his fine motor skills. He wasn’t too interested in cutting the spaghetti because he was having too much fun eating it. This taught me not to try sensory bins before lunchtime.
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