{"id":5354,"date":"2010-01-27T20:48:47","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T03:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/?p=5354"},"modified":"2026-01-31T14:31:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T22:31:07","slug":"dyed-rice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2010\/01\/27\/dyed-rice\/","title":{"rendered":"Dyed Rice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While Bean napped, I started a new endeavor. Last week we dyed pasta for making projects, and she helped. But the rice was going to be much messier, so I waited until she napped. I wanted to make her a surprise (which I will give her Friday morning).<\/p>\n<p>I did some research and found helpful instructions. You can go to <a href=\"http:\/\/foresterclan.blogspot.com\/2008\/08\/homeschool-thursday_21.html\">The Forester Clan<\/a> for instructions.<\/p>\n<p>I used food dye and rubbing alcohol, and here are some notations:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I started using watercolor from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Reeves-24-piece-Watercolor-Paint-Set\/dp\/B000SSNE98\">my set<\/a>, but the rice hardly absorbed the color. I used scarlet red, but the rice turned out pink (which is fine, but I realized then I should use food color and alcohol). It took longer to dry, too.<\/li>\n<li>At first I used only two teaspoons of alcohol in the zip-lock bag, with 20 drops of color and two cups of rice. This produced a batch of lighter colored rice with variations &#8212; some grains light and others dark.<\/li>\n<li>By using more alcohol &#8212; about two or three tablespoons &#8212; the rice took the color more thoroughly.<\/li>\n<li>I dried the riced in the oven on baking sheets at low heat, around 180-200F.<\/li>\n<li>I made some colors according to food coloring box, and in all I ended up with 14 colors: white (no dye), pink, red, watermelon red, raspberry, light orange, dark orange, light yellow, dark yellow, green, jungle green, teal, blue, indigo.<\/li>\n<li>I put it all in a bin of low height to make easy scooping. I kept the colors separate so Bean can have the fun of blending it all.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And here are the results.<\/p>\n<div class=\"photopost\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mindfulone\/4309561817\/\" title=\"wet rice waiting to be dried by Mindful One, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2700\/4309561817_48dd6d1786.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"wet rice waiting to be dried\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"photopost\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mindfulone\/4310300414\/\" title=\"in the oven drying by Mindful One, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2678\/4310300414_0588799ef1.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"in the oven drying\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"photopost\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mindfulone\/4309644493\/\" title=\"rainbow rice by Mindful One, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4035\/4309644493_2cbdafa5a9.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"rainbow rice\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While Bean napped, I started a new endeavor. Last week we dyed pasta for making projects, and she helped. But the rice was going to be much messier, so I waited until she napped. I wanted to make her a surprise (which I will give her Friday morning). I did some research and found helpful [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,25,34,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-education","category-motherhood","category-recreation"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5354"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13608,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5354\/revisions\/13608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}