Materials:

• Uncooked rice (as to not be wasteful of food, I used repurposed rice from a previous I-spy bottle from my classroom, you could also used expired rice)
• Small washable container(s) (plastic bags if you don’t have a container/jar)
• Acrylic paints (red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple)
• Letter beads (one of each letter of the Alphabet)
• Plastic bottle (I used a recyclable smoothie bottle, washed and dried throughly)

Instructions:

• Start by separating your rice into 6 small amounts.
• Place one portion of rice and a small dab of paint into your container.
• Shake well until all rice is coated in paint.
• Spread the painted rice out on a sheet of parchment paper to dry (try to avoid any large clumps).
• Repeat this process for each color of rice.
• Once the colored rice has dried you can run your fingers through it to break up any small clumps that may have formed.
• Add all of your colors of rice and letter beads to a clean plastic bottle.
• Close tightly and shake well.
• Once the desired appearance has been reached I highly recommend hot gluing inside the lid to help prevent the bottle from being opened. (This is not a fail safe and these bottles should be played with while being supervised by an adult)!

Time to Play!