Recipes
for children's play messy creative
activities
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Colouring
pasta shapes with dye
In much the same way as colouring
rice for play, coloured pasta adds new opportunities to explore the
dye process itself and goes on to encourage lots of colourful activities
including sorting, matching, threading, craft, collage and adding pieces
to playdough.
Rainbow
research! enjoy your choosen colours.
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Ingredients
needed to colour the pasta
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Pasta shapes
For threading - pasta wheels/Garofalo Ruote and pasta tubes
Distilled white vinegar
Gel food colouring - on amazon.co.uk
A5 sized Zip lock or grip seal bags
Trays to dry the pasta
How to dye pasta shapes
Place a handful of shapes into the self locking bag and add 20ml of
vinegar or enough to wash over the pasta whilst in tohe bag without flooding
it + a few drops of food colouring.
Seal the bag securely then move the pasta around to absorb the dye.
Let the bags stand for 10 - 20 minutes occasionally shaking to redistribute
the liquid.
Once ready, snip a corner of the bag and drain away all excess fluid.
Spread over a baking tray and dry in a warm oven - 50c
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