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Neon Rice Sensory Bin

January 2, 2015 by Emma Edwards 2 Comments

This is Day 2 of our 31 Day Sensory Play Challenge and today’s sensory item is rice. We love rice sensory bin play – especially with rainbow rice. However, I had the perfect items to create an unusual rice sensory bin for today’s challenge. Over the Summer I entered a competition hosted by Children Are Welcome and won neon paint from Rainbow Creations and a handheld UV blacklight. It was finally time to make a neon rice sensory bin!

Making the neon rice was easy. I poured economy rice into a zip-loc bag along with a dollop of neon paint. I closed the zip-loc bag up and gave it to Adam. He squeezed and shook the bag around until the paint had covered all the rice. I laid the rice onto a baking tray for it to dry whilst I repeated the same procedure for the other colours.

Adventures of Adam making neon rice

The rice only took a few minutes to dry but I waited for night fall before pouring the neon coloured rice into a plastic box.

Adventures of Adam neon rice

We placed the Tuff Spot Tray (affiliate link) on the living room floor and ensured the curtains were shut tight. It felt strange turning the lights off in order to play! It was pitch black until we turned on the Handheld UV Blacklight (affiliate link).

Adventures of Adam Glow in the dark rice

We were really impressed with the results. The neon paint made the rice glow. The blue paint worked the best. I added some neon plastic tubes and cups for Adam to use.

Adventures of Adam Night time rice play

I had expected Adam to not like playing in the dark but I couldn’t have been more wrong. He absolutely loved it. Adam spent ages scooping up the neon rice and pouring it out onto the tuff spot. He enjoyed mark making in the rice and watching the rice fall from above him. The neon rice sensory bin will certainly be reused again and again.

Adventures of Adam Pouring glow in the dark rice

Blog Hop

The blogger joining us today on our 31 Day Sensory Play Challenge Blog Hop is Learning 2 Walk. They have shared 3 ways to play with rice and a Valentines sensory bin.

Equipment:

* Handheld UV Blacklight (affiliate link)

* Neon Paint – ours were from Rainbow Creations

* Ziploc Heavy Duty Freezer Bags (affiliate link)

* Tuff Spot Tray (affiliate link)

* A variety of neon plastic containers – ours were purchased from Asda.

Adventures of Adam Neon Rice Sensory Bin

Other sensory play activities using rice:

Adventures of Adam rainbow rice
How to make Rainbow Rice
Adventures of Adam Alphablock Rainbow Rice Hunt
Alphablock Rainbow Rice Hunt
Adventures of Adam Rainbow Rice Fishing
Rainbow Rice Fishing

Adventures of Adam Earth Day Sensory Tuff Spot
Earth Day Sensory Tuff Spot
3 Ways to play with rice from Learning 2 Walk
Adventures of Adam Pirates Love Underpants sensory bin
Pirates Love Underpants Sensory Bin

To find out more about our 31 Day Sensory Play Challenge 2015 click here.

 

31 Day Sensory Play Challenge calendar download

Day 3 of our Sensory Play Challenge is shaving foam. Take a look at our Shaving Foam and Sand Tuff Spot.

Adventures of Adam 31 Day Sensory Play Challenge 2016

Filed Under: Play Challenges, Some time required, Supervision needed Tagged With: 31 Day Sensory Play Challenge, Colours, Night time activity, Painting Activities, Rice, Sensory Play Activities

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  1. Clare's Little Tots says

    January 6, 2016 at 2:04 pm

    This neon rice is AMAZING!

    Reply
    • Emma Edwards says

      January 9, 2016 at 7:20 pm

      Thank you. A year later and it is still going strong!

      Reply

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During a difficult pregnancy suffering from Hyperemesis Gravidarum (HG) Emma vowed to make every day an adventure once she had recovered. Adventures of Adam is the outcome of completing a 100 day play challenge with Adam as part of that promise. Emma has a section dedicated to HG friendly play activities so that Mums can still be part of their children’s play whilst they are ill.

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