Materials:
- A large plastic tub or sensory table
- Several bags of white rice, depending on the size of your tub
- A bag of dried black beans
- Black or white measuring cups or scoops
- Black and white plastic animals
Directions: Fill your tub with several bags of white rice, to a depth of about 2 inches. Add a bag of black beans and let your child mix them in. Feel free to use other black items if you wish, such as black buttons, pompoms or even checkers! We used a black measuring cup set for pouring the rice. We also had a couple of short, white PVC pipe pieces that we included for scooping the rice into. The children poured rice into the PVC pipe and watched it come out the other end—amazing! Finally, we added some plastic animals—a mother and baby zebra, a black and white cow, a penguin, and mother and baby white tiger, a black and white horse, etc. The children loved burying the animals in the rice and digging them up again!