Rainbow Pasta

You may have noticed…Spring is my favorite season AND I love rainbows! The colors are majestic and they are the peace after the storm, which makes my heart happy! So, it only makes sense to have fun with Rainbow Pasta!

Ingredients:

• 16 oz. Box Cooked Spaghetti Noodles
• Food Coloring

Directions:

• Prepare your Spaghetti Noodles per the box’s instructions.
• Open a Gallon Zipper Bag and place in a bowl for stability.
• Add a squirt of Food Coloring into the bag and 1/4 of the Spaghetti Noodles.
• Seal the Bag and mix it from the outside with your hands. ***Noodles will be HOT, so use an oven mitt!***
• Repeat this process all of the colors.
• Rinse the colored pasta in a strainer to get any remaining Food Coloring cleared off.

Notes:

• Don’t overcook the noodles!!!
• Make sure that Zipper Bag is fully closed so that you don’t have a HUGE mess as you mix the colors!
• Kids could help with the color mixing in the bags with the oven mitts too!
• You can double or half this recipe easily if needed too!
• This pasta is great for kids (like mine!) who love plain Spaghetti Noodles. A quick drizzle of olive oil and a sprinkle of salt or mix with some butter, and your kiddos will be in rainbow heaven!

Additional color ideas:

• Snow Day – all blue
• Valentine’s Day – all red
• St. Patrick’s Day – all green
• Easter – all colors
• 4th of July – red, blue, & no color added
• Back to School – school colors
• Halloween – black & orange or purple & green
• Christmas – red & green
• The list could go on & on!!!

Want to use this for sensory bin exploration?

• Let the Spaghetti Noodles fully cool, and let your littles explore it with their hands.
• This can help with fine motor skills, sensory awareness, and more!
• Spaghetti Pull Activity – Using a plastic strainer, thread individual noodles through different holes on the strainer. Then, give the strainer upside to your child. Let them explore and pull each of the noodles “out”, working on even more fine motor skills and the pincer grasp and you can talk about the colors with each pull and see if they can find another one that is “blue” (as an example).

This is a great dinner to get the kids involved in, and it was so easy to whip up! Why not have a little fun with your food?

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