Coloured macaroni, pasta, and shredded coconut

Buying craft supplies can be expensive. Here is an idea for you to make at home with your children. My monkey children love to help me with this one. You'll need rubbing alcohol, rice, different types of pasta, macaroni, shredded coconut, small and large ziploc bags, and food colouring. Children can not do this one on their own, they will need to be your helpers with this part. First decide what kinda of pasta you will use, bowties, elbows, scoobi doo, shells, the choices are endless. Then you put a little bit of rubbing alcohol in a small ziploc bag, add a few drops of food colouring, put the macaroni in the bag, zip it up and let your children shake it till the macaroni is fully covered. You can do the same with rice and shredded coconut. The large ziploc bags can be used to colour lasagna noodles, which you will have to do on your own without the children. These noodles are a little more delicate. Once everything is colour you will have to place them on a tray or plate and set them out to dry. Out side in the sun works really well. This activity is great because you can teach your children that if you mix certain colours together you can make new ones, like yellow and blue food colouring together makes green. Let your children explore with the different colours to see what they can come up with. As soon as we make some cool crafts out of these I will post them. For now save your frozen juice lids!