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Tag Archives: rice

Vibrantly Coloured Rice

9 / 5 / 139 / 13 / 13

Vibrantly Coloured Rice | Mama Papa Bubba

It’s no secret that we love sensory play in our house.  Like a lot.  Sadly, our recent move meant saying goodbye to many of the sensory materials that had become staples in our everyday play repertoire… (What – It doesn’t make sense to ship pounds upon pounds of coloured pasta, pea gravel, packing peanuts, dried beans, and glass gems?? Hmph.)  And so we begin again!  This week’s mission was replacing our stash of coloured rice, and did we ever!  In fact, we now have 22 pounds of vibrantly coloured rice.  

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Japanese Rice Sensory Bin

8 / 11 / 133 / 24 / 14

Japanese Sensory Bin | Mama Papa Bubba

Our rice-filled, Japenese-themed sensory bin was such a hit with the little girls at Gracen’s 3rd birthday party, we decided to bring it out to enjoy again today.  We brought a soft blanket, parked ourselves in the shade of a big tree on the far side of the yard, and Grae snuck in the calm, quiet time she quite desperately needed in order to regroup after a couple of busy people-filled days (if you’ve yet to try it, slowly running your hands through dry, cool rice is quite therapeutic).

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iPhoneography // Simple Rice Tray Play

6 / 9 / 139 / 12 / 13

Simple Rice Tray Play | Mama Papa Bubba

This morning I had a little bit of housework to do and Miss G suggested that she’d play with some freshly coloured rice I’d made while I got my clean on.  It’d been a quite a while since she’d last opted to play with a rice bin or tray, so I was happy to hear that she was still excited about such a simple sensory activity.  While I put the rice into small containers, she picked out items she wanted to use while playing with it.  She gathered up a divided plate,  heart-shaped ice cube tray,  cup, scoop, bowl, and funnel and we laid everything down on a large blanket in the living room.

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She got to playing right away and immediately mixed the different colours in the bowl while using the funnel.  Watching the individual colours mix into speckled sea of rainbow colours is always so much fun (and so is crazy bed head ☺).

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There was a lot of mixing, dumping, and pouring, but the favourite of the morning was definitely this little scoop paired with the funnel.  She quickly learned that using the two together was a great way to fill the little heart-shaped ice moulds and we later on we even experimented with extending our funnel using a bubble tea straw.

After she was through playing, we scooped up the rice, added it to the bin of coloured rice we keep in the solarium, and shook the remaining grains off of the blanket outside.  Easy, simple fun.

To see how we make our coloured rice, click here.

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Rainbow Rice Sensory Bin

6 / 20 / 123 / 24 / 14

Today we gathered up some supplies, transferred the rice we dyed yesterday into a bin, and headed out into the backyard for some fun.

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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!)

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First job – take everything out and get those colours mixed together!

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The result? Rainbow rice!

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Soooo beautiful!

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Next job – filling up every single container in sight.

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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.
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