Rainbow Stew

photographs to come:

Ingredients for Rainbow Stew:

1 Cup Corn Starch
1/3 Cup Sugar
4 Cups Water
Food Coloring
Med. Saucepan
Mixing Spoon
Ziploc Bags
Heavy Tape or Duct Tape

To make the stew, combine water, cornstarch, and sugar in the saucepan and stir/cook until thickened. When this is done, remove the mixture from the heat an allow it to cool. After cooled, separate the mixture into bowls and add different food coloring drops to each. Depending on the age of your children, you can allow them to spoon and mix their own combination of colors into their Ziplock bags, or you could do it yourself and allow them just to squish and play with it. Once the Ziplock has the mixture in it, help the children work all of the air out of the baggie and tape the edges shut for extra support during the squishing and playing!

Encourage the kids to draw using their fingers (single letter practice is fun in this stew!), mold into different colors, or make a design...then make a new one! They can keep them in their own cubby as a playtoy for any time they want to explore colors or writing.

We're making Rainbow Stew.
Red, Yellow and Blue
We're busy in the kitchen,

We're making Rainbow Stew.
(to the tune of Farmer in the Dell)