Sensory Play with Spaghetti

Playing with cooked and coloured spaghetti is an inexpensive way to have some good sensory fun with our little ones. Babies as young as 5 months and preschoolers up to age 4 year old can have fun touching, tasting and creating art with spaghetti.  It looks like it would be a messy activity, but it isn't!  

Instructions:

1.  Boil 1lb of spaghetti in a large pot. Once it is cooked, drain it and separate into a couple of bowls.

2.  Add about 1/2 tsp oil to each bowl and some Wilton gel food colouring (start with a small dab, add more if needed). The oil helps keep the colour from running onto clothes (though make sure to use a spoon while you are mixing the colour into the spaghetti!).  

Aside from being a tad oily, no colour leaked onto clothing or hands!  We used a plastic table cloth on the kitchen floor and added some toys and tools for fun.   

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