By now hopefully you realize that #kidsinthekitchen is about more than just letting the kids mix cookie dough or slice strawberries. In our home the kitchen in the backdrop for just about anything we have going on. Homework is done there, conversations about our schedule are discussed there, we eat meals as a family there and ofcourse we prep those meals there. The kitchen is also the place where we educate, create and play. Crafts and activities are HUGE in our home. They aren’t always blogged about but there is usually something happening each day.
This week we are playing with our food again. Colored Rice is an incredibly popular medium to stimulate sensory awareness, work on color recognition and work on fine and gross motor skills. In our house we play with it because it’s pretty and fun to run our fingers through it.
While sitting at the kitchen island this week Shae was admiring the flowers Sabreena gave me for Mother’s Day. Each day I sort through them, throw away the dead ones, change the water and re arrange them. Shae then decided she wanted to make me flower that would last forever. This is when the colored rice comes in.
We pulled out a piece of heavy cardstock, school glue, colored rice, popsicle stick, markers a couple fabric leaves from previously dismantle fabric flowers. I drew out flower shape on the card stock and let her create my flower.
The trick to getting a nice layer of rice is to go heavy on the glue. Shae used a paintbrush to fill each petal with lots of glue and then over poured the rice so it would stick in every nook and cranny.
The clean up was simple, rice is easy to sweep up. This needs to dry overnight at the very least.
Did you have fun in the “kitchen” this week? Did you try a new food or a new kid friendly restaurant? Did your littlest ones use their snacks to count to 10? We invite you to share your experiences, photos, stories or recipes that include your #kidsinthekitchen.
Come join me and my co-hosts, Paula at Frosted Fingers and Sara at Sensibly Sara, each week linking up a post, new or old, that feature the theme Kids in the Kitchen. It doesn’t matter what you are doing as long as you are doing it together, enjoying it and learning something along the way.
- working on a craft
- playing pretend restaurant
- counting skills with m&ms
- pouring from measuring cups
- discovering a local restaurant that your kids love
- creating new family friendly recipes
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I can’t wait to see the fun you worked on this week.
how pretty! i love it!
thanks so much. love that you always have kind words for us 🙂
My kids would love to do this! I need to make the colored rice.
it’s so easy to make, the kidscan do it!
New linky badge tested and is working! Woot woot!
thank you ! that was a pain in the butt
Love the rice flower! I was thinking of doing something similar just last week! Then got distracted.. haha
Thanks for hosting!
this would be good for any image really, not just flowers
Thank you for the invitation!! I hope you will come share with us at Sharing Saturday as well.
I have your button as a reminder to come visit. Sometimes I don’t get over there though 🙂
It is open through Wednesday evening each week.
I love it! Do you keep colored rice on hand at all times?!
It lasts a while. I have colored pasta that is 6 years old. I only remember because we made it so Shaun could make me necklace for mother’s day when he was 4. it’s still hang in my car
That’s awesome!
What a beautiful rice flower! Love the colors. 🙂 Thanks for hosting this fun link-up!
I want to make some more colors too. Its so addicting
I thought they were sprinkles! Such a cute idea! Time to make colored rice!
they wouldn’t of let me ‘waste’ sprinkles like that LOL
Thank you for inviting us over! I am so happy you said hello. We’ll be following along to see what other cute ideas you share!
-Rachael from The Rehomesteaders
http://therehomesteaders.blogspot.com/
so excited to see new additions.
Yikes. After receiving your invitation, I linked up and posts and looked through the others (love the linky rule #4!. Made me laugh!) and realized my posts don’t really belong this week but I can’t delete them! 🙁 Feel free to do so. I knew the title was “Kids in the Kitchen” but the number 1 rule was not as clear as what I read below your beautiful colored rice flower (great idea by the way) in regards to the theme! Oops. Anyhow, I’ll be back next week with kitchen themed links! LOL
no big deal at all. we do our crafts in the kitchen so it fits all the time 🙂 go through previous weeks and see how we always tie it in LOL
How sweet! Where do you get the colored rice?
we make it, it’s really easy and lasts a long time
https://lookwhatmomfound.com/2013/03/kidsinthekitchen-using-colored-rice-as-art.html
This is such a fun craft! I love it!! Thanks for sharing with us at Share It Saturday.
Colleen at http://www.sugaraunts.com