Coloured pasta can be used for a colour sorting activity. It can also be used for threading. The children can thread pasta through a string/pipecleaner.

These are the steps to dye some pasta.

You need: raw pasta, bowl, cup, vinegar, food colouring, tray, container

• First put the pasta in a bowl.
• In a cup, mix together a teaspoon of white vinegar and some drops of food colouring.
• Pour the vinegar and the food colouring over the pasta, close the bowl and shake. After some time, open it and if the colour is not evenly distributed, add some more vinegar and shake.
• Put the pasta on a tray and let it dry. Store it in a sealed container.

These are some activities that can be done at home to help the children sort the colours.

The children can be provided with a box filled with bottle caps/pompoms/buttons/blocks or coloured pasta and they need to put them on the correct paper plate/container/cup or coloured paper.

The children can start by sorting two colours (for example red and blue only) but then, they can sort more colours.

These are some ideas: