Our autumn sensory tub is proof that you can salvage something from an activity that went spectacularly wrong! Ever since my husband went to Bangalore, I've felt inspired to create a kolam (a picture that is drawn on the floor of Indian homes using coloured powders). Instead of using powder, I coloured some salt with food colouring and the result was some very pastel-looking colours, not quite the bright colours I had seen in the images of kolams from India. The colours incidentally turned out to be very similar to the colours of Autumn at this time of year in the UK, so I decided to convert our activity into an Autumn sensory tub.
I had some leaf-shaped pasta in the cupboard so I added some more yellow food colouring to this. I noticed that the food colouring hadn't been absorbed evenly throughout each pasta leaf, but this actually contributed to the autumn theme as it looked as though each leaf was changing colour from yellow to orange.
I arranged the coloured salt into a tub together with the pasta leaves and some scoops and funnels and let Wugs experience, for the first time, the colours of Autumn.
What we used:
Salt
Green, orange and yellow food colouring (Brand: Bake King)
Le Fantasie Pasta Shapes
Ziploc Bags (the pasta and salt was placed inside together with the food colouring and some distilled white vinegar)
A tablespoon of Distilled white vinegar per colour
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