Color rice can be used as filler for a house sandbox and material for development of fine motor skills. It is fine material for children's creativity: dry painting, appliques, hand-made articles. Rice can be painted in several ways.
It is required to you
- - white long rice;
- - food colorings (water paint);
- - vinegar;
- - plastic container (ziplok package);
- - salt;
Instruction
1. Put 0.5 glasses of rice in capacity, having added several drops of food coloring and 0.5 tablespoons of vinegar, for paint fixing. Mix well to a condition of homogeneous mass. Spread out the painted rice on parchment paper and put for 45 minutes in the oven which is previously warmed up to 200 °C.
2. Mix couple of drops of vinegar with food coloring on which amount the saturation of color of rice will depend. Fill up in a ziplok package rice with dye, having as much as possible let out the air, mix carefully contents, at the same time moving rice with paint. Then it is necessary to pour out rice on paper, to allow to dry.
3. If it is necessary that color rice remained firm and was not fragile, then together with dye add a large amount of salt to water, that is prepare saturated salt solution. Thus, rice, having become impregnated with salt, becomes strong.
4. By means of color rice it is possible to do drawings in "sand animation" style.