Thursday, July 30, 2015

Rainbow Pasta

One morning last week I was browsing though my “Kid Projects” Pinterest board and found something I thought Riley would enjoy doing. So we made rainbow pasta for lunch!

Riley picked out six different colors to use. Once the pasta had been cooked, rinsed, and cooled, I divided it into six Ziploc bags and set him up at the kitchen counter, with Rory looking on in his highchair.

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Both boys got to squeeze out 20 drops of food coloring into a few of the bags, which I then added a tablespoon of water to and sealed. Then they got to mash it all around so the color would soak into the noodles.

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Once all six colors had been mixed into the pasta and the bags had sat on the counter for a couple of minutes, our rainbow was revealed!

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The next step was to dump all of the pasta into a colander for one final rinse and mix. Riley was a big help during this part.

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The rinsing was necessary to get rid of the excess food coloring, but it did wash off some of the vibrancy of the pasta. However, we still had quite a colorful bowl of pasta when all was said and done.

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Rory refused to try it, but Riley ate rainbow pasta for lots of meals the rest of the week and has already asked if we can do it again.

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Pinterest win!

1 comments:

QP said... Best Blogger Tips

Again, best.mom.ever.
Hey, do you think that would work with ziti?

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