Head to the kitchen and make these edible water beads for your kids to play with for an inexpensive and fun Sensory Play Activity.
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These edible water beads are so slippery, squishy, and smooth they create an amazingly fun sensory activity. Talk about some inexpensive entertaining fun. I spent $1.58 on one bag of tapioca pearls. They start out hard and solid colored and end up soft with a slimy gel like coating on the outside. So cool! Tapioca pearls, also known as Boba are edible but they don’t taste very good unless flavored so your kiddo probably wont try to make a snack of them although I never suggest encouraging your kiddo to eat your activity.
This activity was inspired by The Kids Activities Blog, which is full of fun ideas including a yummy refreshing drink recipe to go along with this activity!!! You need to take a visit to see what they have been up to lately! I love drinking tapioca pearl drinks but had never thought of using them as edible water beads. Genius! This was my first time making tapioca pearls and I was thrilled to find out they are so easy to work with and so fun to use as edible water beads.
- Tapioca Pearls (White Tapioca Pearls or Rainbow Tapioca Pearls one bag can make a lot)
- Water
- Pan
- Strainer
- Food coloring (optional)
| If you look between two water beads you can see the clear gel coating that make them so fun to play with! |
If you are adding color to the pearls divide the pearls up into separate bowls, stir in the food coloring, and let them sit for 3 hours. Rinse the extra food coloring off in water and now they are ready to play. I wasn’t very patient and didn’t rinse ours very well so a little food coloring came off on our hands as we played with them but it rinsed off so I wasn’t worried about it.
| My kiddos loved playing with the edible water beads because they felt so cool. They kept dragging their fingers around their bowl as if they couldn’t get enough of this new feeling! |
Here are more Sensory activities for you to enjoy:
How to Make Insta-Snow
Ice Cream Play Dough Recipe
Edible Sensory Sand Recipe
They are so fun, we finally tried out the store bought kind of water beads too and we think they are amazing!
What a cool activity! Thanks so much for sharing at After School.
Hi Anna, thanks so much for visiting from After School. I am so glad to hear you think our activity is cool! 🙂
we only tried regular water beads but not edible. On our list of things to try!
What a great idea!! Congratulations on being most clicked this week!! Thank you for sharing on Sharing Saturday!
Hi Carrie, that is so exciting thanks for stopping by to share the news! Have a great weekend 🙂
Congratulations! This post is going to be featured over at Diana Rambles tomorrow and has been pinned in the Featured at Diana Rambles board at Pinterest, Tweeted, and Recommended on G+. Please grab a featured button off my sidebar or via the link under the features. Thanks for sharing this awesome idea!
Hi Diana, I am so excited thank you so much for all the social media support, time, and effort for my post! I will be sure to stop by and see what other fun activities you have and grab a button while I am there! 🙂
Love these!! So beautiful – just makes you want to dive in and play. 🙂
Hi Jolanthe, thanks! I am pretty sure my kids tried that and attempted to fit as much of themselves in their bowls as possible. lol 🙂
I find this fascinating! I will definitely be trying it with my kids! Thanks for sharing.
Tara
The Math Maniac
Thanks for visiting I am so happy to hear you are going to try this out. It's so fun, I hope you enjoy!
This is the coolest thing ever! Are these the same things they have at frozen yogurt places??
Hi Lauren, thanks for dropping by 🙂 Yes, it's the same thing. Who would of ever thought frozen yogurt and sensory beads went together 🙂