Sensory Play Activity: How to Make Beautiful, Kid-Safe Rainbow Rice

Sensory Play Activity: How to Make Beautiful, Kid-Safe Rainbow Rice

The easiest recipe for beautiful, food-safe rice to fill your little one’s sensory bin!

Sensory Play: Ice & Water

Sensory Play: Ice & Water

It’s 30° outside, but at least twice a week, my four-year-old is requesting that we go to the pool.  These boys miss their summer water play! To substitute, we are using lots of indoor water activities, especially those involving temperature

Science Activity: Oil, Water, and Color Mixing

Science Activity: Oil, Water, and Color Mixing

Here’s a quick and simple way to add a color-mixing element to a classic oil and water activity.

Preschool Science: Magic Milk

Preschool Science: Magic Milk

All of our preschool science projects lately have to have a color-mixing element.  My three-year-old is fascinated by this process and will plunge with delight into any project that involves food coloring.  Here is one of my favorite science/art crossover

Preschool Science: The Walking Rainbow

Preschool Science: The Walking Rainbow

To reinforce the color-mixing ideas we’d talked about previously, we tried another experiment with food-coloring and water.  This demonstration relies on the tendency of liquids to reach equilibrium.  When we connect the jars, the water will flow until it has