Rainbow pasta is a favorite of mine as of the moment. I love love looking at them, and of course use them for homeschool.
It’s so easy to make! Gather various shapes of pasta like bowtie, penne, Rotelle, macaroni, shells etc. In a measure the right of pasta you wanted to use then put it in the zipper bag. Add around 1 tablespoon of alcohol and drop 5-10 drops of food color into the bag. Close the zipper bag, mix or shake the bag until all the pasta are covered with color. You can leave the pasta inside the bag for around 5 to 10 minutes. To dry, cover a try or a cookie sheet with kitchen towel. Carefully pour out the colored pasta, spread it out in single layer for faster drying.
Here’s how my son and I use our pasta:
1. Stringing and beadings. This is only good for penne pasta.
2. Used as counters for our counting activities. In here I used an egg carton box as the tray. The purpose here is to represent the amount of pasta based on the numbers written at the bottom of each box.
3. Playdough Tower
4. Color sorting activity. Here I used again an egg carton box, paint it, let it dry and vuela! If you used different shapes of pasta, you can also do a shape sorting activity as well!
Why not try it, right?? It’s a lot more cheaper that buying colored wooden blocks or pattern kits :-)
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