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    how to dye pasta

    Being a little addicted to Pinterest lately, I have discovered some amazing things, wonderful things really. And one of my discoveries I will share with you today.

    When I stumbled upon the idea and then the instructions by A Little Delightful, I was gobsmacked how easy it was. I thought I was going to have to put the pasta in water, and then colour it, and do it repeatedly for a rainbow, colourful effect. But no! So easy.

    So easy in fact, that I even got my Little Miss to help me out too. And she loved it! She is a little lady that loves to help, loves. I guess I am pretty lucky like that. And she got right into it!

    You will need:
    Uncooked pasta
    Hand sanitizer {containing alcohol}
    Food dye
    and zip lock bags
    a tray
    paper or baking paper

    how to dye pasta

    ♥ Firstly, I picked up really cheap pasta from the supermarket, especially for this activity.

    ♥ Place your pasta in a ziplock bag.

    ♥ Put 1-2 squirts of hand sanitizer in the bag, and then some drops of food dye. I was a little unsure as to why the hand santiliser, but I think it has something to do with the alcohol and food colouring sticking to the pasta.

    how to dye pasta

    ♥ Close it up and gently ‘massage’ the pasta so as to spread the colouring evenly all over. In our case, we did a lot of ‘shacking’.

    ♥ Allow to sit for a few minutes in the bag while you line a tray with baking paper.

    ♥ Empty the bag of pasta onto the paper. Allow to dry in the sun or on a table inside. Alternatively, you can put the tray in the oven on a ‘warm’ mode or the lowest of lowest settings to speed up the drying process.

    how to dye pasta

     

    Enjoy the hours of play. This little one spent a good solid hour sorting, stringing and re-packing her pasta. She just loves it!

    Linking up with Essentially Jess

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