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Taste Safe Rainbow Sensory Play

March 6, 2017 by Emma Gadsby Leave a Comment

I think we have a slight rainbow obsession. Over the past three years we have created over 20 rainbow inspired activities including:

Adventures of Adam Alphabet Rainbow
Alphabet Pasta Rainbow Tuff Spot
Adventures of Adam Rainbow Fine Motor Busy Bag
Clothespin Rainbow Busy Bag
Adventures of Adam Edible Rainbow
Edible Rainbow Tuff Spot

Rainbow Loom Band Busy Bag
Rainbow Loom Band Busy Bag
Stack a stone Rainbow
Stack-A-Stone Rainbow
Adventures Rainbow Painting
Rainbow Shaving Foam Bath Painting

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You can view all of our rainbow play activities here.

We couldn’t wait to get stuck into this weeks Virtual Book Club story – Rainbow of My Own by Freeman Don. Unfortunately we couldn’t get a copy from our local library but enjoyed watching this version several times:

Rainbow of My Own is a beautiful story about a boy who imagines what it would be like to have his own rainbow to play with. I wanted to create a rainbow that Adam could play with. Recently we wrote a post for Twinkl about how to colour mix with mashed potato. At the time we only used three colours. I wanted to extend the fun to include seven colours and make a Taste Safe Rainbow Sensory Play activity.

Taste Safe Rainbow Potato Sensory Play

You can find a handy Mashed Potato Colour Mixing EYFS Plan with links to the curriculum from Twinkl.

Resources needed to make Taste Safe Rainbow Sensory Play

* White potatoes – we used a 2.5KG bag to make two activities

* Food colouring – we used Wilton Food Colouring – Christmas Red, Pink, Orange, Lemon Yellow, Leaf Green, Sky Blue and Violet.

* Saucepans, hob, water and colander

* Storage box – we used a white one from Ikea

* Potato Masher

How to make Taste Safe Rainbow Sensory Play

1. Pour water into a saucepan and place on a hob. Dip the end of a spoon into the Wilton Food Colouring and stir the food colouring into the water. Bring to the boil.

Coloured water and potatoes

2. Meanwhile peel the potatoes and cut them into small cubes. Add the potatoes to the boiling water and cook.

Dice potatoes to make rainbow potato sensory play

3. Repeat the process for as many colours as you wish. We could only cook four colours in four saucepans at one time.

Coloured potatoes

4. Drain the colour water and place the coloured potatoes on a plate in order to cool.

Making a potato rainbow

5. Position the coloured potatoes in a rainbow formation inside a large tray or box.

Ways to play with Taste Safe Rainbow Sensory Play

We were at Nanas house celebrating Grandad’s birthday so I left the Rainbow sensory bin out for Adam, my niece and nephew to play as and when they wanted to. I left out a potato masher for them to explore the rainbow with, along with kitchen paper for them to wipe their hands on if needed.

Rainbow Potato Sensory Play

My niece liked to squish the potato between her fingers. She couldn’t believe that it was potato without having a taste. We certainly love taste safe sensory activities!

Squishing the potatoes with the masher proved to be a great activity for developing both fine and gross motor skills. Pushing, twisting and pressing the masher worked on fine motor development whereas moving the masher up and down strengthened hand and arm muscles needed for gross motor development.

Rainbow coloured potato dough

Eventually after using the potato masher for some time the potato rainbow turned into a playdough like substance. This was great for manipulating into sculptures, moulding and shaping. The colours looked incredible.

Rainbow potato playdough

Take a look at the Taste Safe Rainbow Sensory Play activity in action:

As I had used a 2.5KG bag of white potatoes I knew I had enough to make two sensory play activities. Take a look at our Sparkly Unicorn Play Dough (coming soon).

This weeks Virtual Book Club story is Rainbow of My Own by Freeman Don. Check out the other RAINBOW themed activities:

Rainbow Alphabet Activity – Growing Book by Book

Rainbow Name Craft for Kids – Toddler Approved

5 Math Games using Painted Rainbow Counters – The Educators’ Spin On It

How to make rainbow spaghetti – Sensory play for kids -Messy Little Monster

Find the Unicorn Rainbow Sensory Bin – Inspiration Laboratories

Preschool Color Activities – Roll and Cover Rainbow

Construction Paper Rainbow Craft – The Moments at Home

Mixing Colors to Make a Rainbow – Mama Smiles

CVC Word Family Rainbow Puzzles – Sea of Knowledge

Rainbow Words – Rainy Day Mum

Rainbow Preschool Music Craft & Song – Preschool Powol Packets

Rainbow Fine Motor Activity – Clare’s Little Tots

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Filed Under: Independent Play Activity, Play Activities, Some time required Tagged With: Book themed play, Colours, Cupboard Resources, Edible Play Activities, Fine Motor Activities, Food colouring, Independent Play Activities, Messy activity, Sensory Play Activities, Toddler play

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