Purple Bubble Art!

As part of our purple week, we tried a new activity of purple bubble art.  I grabbed some purple paint, some dish soap, some purple glitter, and a Hawaiian Punch Purple Single Packet:

 

Mix the ingredients together until you get some nice purple bubble solution (that also smells delicious thanks to the Hawaiian Punch)

and start blowing bubbles onto some white paper:

The end result is quite pretty!  We ended up making two batches: one with just purple paint and soap and the other with the Hawaiian packets...

 

The Hawaiian packet solution produced fun bubbles that crinkled as they popped (left side of paper).

 A truly fun sensory experience!

Purple Week: Purple Sensory Bin

Welcome to our PURPLE week! 

We started off our purple week as we always do, with a sensory box of our purple objects:

We go around our playroom collecting all of our purple objects and say "purple" over and over again...

I had some purple grape scented rice as the base.  Coloring rice is very easy...you simply need some food coloring and 1 tablespoon of rubbing alcohol.  Mix all the ingredients together then place it on some aluminum foil to let dry.  For this particular rice though I was inspired by this recipe from Play Create Explore's website (who also inspired our One Color, One Week series) and used Hawaiian Punch's Wild Purple Smash singles that I found at The Dollar Tree.  You'll want to make sure it's the sugar free one or else your rice will end up too sticky.  I used 2-3 packets for about 2 cups of uncooked rice and mixed it with 1 Tablespoon of vinegar:

When you're done, you will have some wonderfully smelling purple rice!