There are many good things to be said about buying rice in 25 lb bags. It is super cheap, easy to store, easy to cook and will make it easy to feed your family cheaply. It is also super cheap, easy to store and assures that you will always have art materials for your kids.
We are trying to learn a bit about the real meaning behind St. Patrick's Day so today we talked about how St. Patrick used the shamrock to explain the Blessed Trinity. 3 leaves on one plant representing the 3 persons in the Blessed Trinity. Then we made green shamrocks. (See, there is more to the holiday than green beer and food and parades.)
I dyed the rice green using food coloring and vinegar. I've also seen recipes using rubbing alcohol to set the color on the rice but since Gabe would be working with us, I decided that would not be a good idea. The vinegar worked just as well to set the color.
The kids were all amazingly quiet and involved. Even the older ones. I figured this would be a quickly done project before they ran off to do something else but I was happily surprised when they stayed busy for at least 10 minutes. Most of the kids seemed to try to cover the entire shamrock surface with rice.
Gabe enjoyed this project and made sure to try eating the rice and sticking glue covered q-tips in his ears. Other than those small issues, this was a very low mess and low hassle project.
One of the finished projects done by the older boys.
We are trying to learn a bit about the real meaning behind St. Patrick's Day so today we talked about how St. Patrick used the shamrock to explain the Blessed Trinity. 3 leaves on one plant representing the 3 persons in the Blessed Trinity. Then we made green shamrocks. (See, there is more to the holiday than green beer and food and parades.)
I dyed the rice green using food coloring and vinegar. I've also seen recipes using rubbing alcohol to set the color on the rice but since Gabe would be working with us, I decided that would not be a good idea. The vinegar worked just as well to set the color.
The kids were all amazingly quiet and involved. Even the older ones. I figured this would be a quickly done project before they ran off to do something else but I was happily surprised when they stayed busy for at least 10 minutes. Most of the kids seemed to try to cover the entire shamrock surface with rice.
Gabe enjoyed this project and made sure to try eating the rice and sticking glue covered q-tips in his ears. Other than those small issues, this was a very low mess and low hassle project.
One of the finished projects done by the older boys.
1 comment:
Cool project! I might have to snatch it. I've got word searches for the older girls printed out and we'll be making green cookies for dad's class.
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