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Rainbow Fruit Parfaits With Clouds on Top!
I can’t tell you how excited I am about the fact that our local market has recently started stocking berries that a) don’t cost an arm and a leg and b) actually taste good again… I look forward to this time every year! Of course, a fridge filled with all kinds of colourful fruit means delicious fruit parfaits, and with St. Patrick’s Day quickly approaching it means rainbow fruit parfaits {with clouds on top just for fun!}
St. Patrick’s Day Play Dough Kit
It’s been a long while since we put together our last play dough kit, so this week I finally made time to create a new one! And since I have a very hard time resisting anything rainbow, this time around we went with a St. Patrick’s Day play dough kit.
Rainbow Water Xylophone
As we stared out the window at the blanket of dust covering Mahboula and wondered what to do with the last bit of our day today, I realized that we’d have to come up with something fun to do indoors. Selfishly, I wanted it to be something that was fairly quick and easy to pull together, but at the same time, I wanted it to be something that would keep Miss G happily engaged for a while. That’s when I remembered all of the glass milk bottles I’ve been squirrelling away for the last several months in hopes of putting them to good use. I figured they’d be perfect for creating a rainbow water xylophone and it really doesn’t get much easier than filling a bunch of glass jars with water and a couple of drops of food colouring, does it?!
Magnetic Rainbow Name Busy Box
With Miss G being under the weather this week, we’ve spent quite a bit more time at home than usual. This has allowed us loads of time to dress-up, read in our new fairy tale fort, play round upon round {upon round upon round} of UNO, and do all sorts of fun creative projects and activities – one of which was creating this fun magnetic rainbow name busy box.
Rainbow Play Dough Kit
Grae and I absolutely love putting together fun play kits as gifts, especially when they involve sensory play materials. While we’ve made a very simple homemade play dough kit previously, time around we decided to make the birthday boy a colourful kit filled with a rainbow of play dough and a bunch of fun tools and loose parts to up its play possibilities.
A Rainbow Snack
Ever since our recent Shopping Sense tour, Gracen’s been talking about “eating a rainbow”. I really had no idea she was even paying attention to the registered dietician during the event, but since she’d never mentioned eating a rainbow until dinnertime after the tour, I’m guessing she was. It’s amazing to see what little sponges they are, isn’t it? Now she says things like, “Look, Papa… There’s orangey, purple, and green! Grae Grae’s eating a rainbow for dinner!”
This afternoon when she requested a snack “including all the colours of the rainbow”, I decided to do something fun.
Fruit lends itself to creating a rainbow so well that I could have easily made the entire thing just from one food group, but I decided to try and include at least a little bit of protein, dairy, and veg too. I ended up with strawberry chunks, all-natural sharp cheddar cubes, low-sodium chickpeas, edamame beans, fresh blueberries, and banana coins for the clouds (sorry indigo and violet – skipped you this time!)
The chickpeas were scooped up by my hungry little monkey before I had a chance to assemble the rainbow, so they were replaced with chunks of yellow pepper (just as well – she loves those too). Using a small plate and following its arc made shaping the rainbow really easy.
And you should have seen the eyes on my little rainbow loving girl when I set the plate down in front of her… She loved it so much that we had a great brainstorming session about all of the foods that could be used to create a rainbow snack (and she of course had way more ideas than I did).
Here are some of the options we came up with…
Red: strawberries . raspberries . red peppers . grape tomatoes . cherries . kidney beans .
Orange: cheddar . oranges . carrots . orange peppers . homemade cheese crackers . cantaloupe . apricots .
Yellow: yellow peppers . chickpeas . pineapple . mango . swiss cheese . yellow tomatoes .
Green: edamame beans . green peppers . cucumbers . pickles . broccoli . snap peas . avocado . kiwi . green grapes .
Blue / Purple: blueberries . blackberries . beets . red grapes . purple peppers . plums .
White: bananas . mozzarella cheese . tofu cubes . cottage cheese . plain yogurt . white kidney beans . hardboiled eggs
You never know… We just may have to repeat this idea on St. Patrick’s Day (or use it for a rainbow party one day!)
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Sticky Wall Rainbow
Gracen just recently started talking about rainbows a lot, which couldn’t have come at a better time with St. Patrick’s Day right around the corner. Since her Valentine’s colouring matching sticky wall activity was such a hit, I decided we’d do a variation of it for the week leading up to St. Patrick’s Day.
This time, using the same method as I did last time, I drew a quick rainbow with clouds on the contact paper.
And instead of construction paper cut-outs, this time I included tissue paper pieces (in coordinating rainbow colours) and cotton balls for the clouds.
I thought Gracen might ask what the cotton balls were for, given that the rainbow drawing really didn’t include any white, but not the case. She immediately dove into the bowl and started filling up the clouds.
Clearly, the cotton balls were the favourite of this activity. If I would have known, I would have attempted to dye cotton balls in all of the rainbow colours and skipped the tissue paper all together, but maybe we can try that another time.
Once all of the cotton balls had been used in one way or another, she began sticking the red tissue paper pieces on, lining them up just so. After a few, she looked at them sideways, then looked at me and exclaimed, “A row, Mum! Just like a real rainbow.” For the next week or so, I can almost guarantee that Miss G will be working on her rainbow rows.
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Rainbow Rice Sensory Bin
Today we gathered up some supplies, transferred the rice we dyed yesterday into a bin, and headed out into the backyard for some fun.
Gracen helped me pick out the items to add to our rainbow rice sensory bin. We kept things pretty simple today… Spoons, containers, cups, and a teapot (hmm… I wonder whose selection that was!)
First job – take everything out and get those colours mixed together!
The result? Rainbow rice!
Soooo beautiful!
Next job – filling up every single container in sight.
And then things got wild. For a while, it was raining rice, and shortly after the whole bucket tipped over, Grae still inside. The good thing was that Miss G found picking it all up and putting it back in the bin just as fun as dumping it in the first place.
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You can see Gracen’s other sensory bins here.