Colored Sand

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Purchase sand from your local pet store (I use the kind for reptiles it is thin and soft) or hardware store. Place in ziploc bags and add gel food coloring or mix part water and a few drops of regular food coloring and pour into the bag. Zip the bag shut and massage the color through the sand.

Edible Candy Clay

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You Will Need:
1  pound of powdered sugar
1/2 tsp. salt
1/3 cup corn syrup
1/3 cup  margarine (softened)
1 tsp. vanilla extract
5-7 drops food coloring
What to do:
• Mix all ingredients together in a bowl until blended (add more powdered sugar if too sticky)
• make animals etc.. YES you can eat it Yummy!

       Playdough

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What you will need:
• 7 cups of all purpose flour
• 4 cups hot water
• 1/4 cup vegetable oil
• 3 tablespoons of cream of tarter
• 3 cups of salt
• several different colors of food   
  coloring
What to do:
~ Mix flour, cream of tarter and salt in a mixing bowl and mix
~  Add oil and water and knead (add flour to get softer dough)
~divide playdough and knead
different food coloring into each.
~ store in container with lid or divide it up and put in ziploc bags for children to take home.

Hint: if playdough dries out add water and knead through

      Dying Pasta

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How to dye pasta:
• 1/4 cup of alcohol
• 10 drops of food coloring
• Zip loc bags
What to do:
• put alcohol and food coloring
in bag then add pasta and shake until all the pasta is
covered.
• let sit overnight (the longer you leave it, the darker it will become)
• Pour pasta out on a cookie sheet and spread out to dry overnight.