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Truth be told, I don’t usually decorate for Memorial Day. I don’t usually decorate for Fourth of July because I’m always in Utah. But for some reason, I saw my little flags in the hutch drawer and I really wanted to do something with them. I also wanted to do something with my old jars. It was time to try a Memorial Day Craft!
Memorial Day Ideas
I thought about what I could fill the jars with that would be festive for either Memorial day or Fourth of July. I wanted to use something I already had. I grabbed my bag of rice and food coloring and colored me some rice.
I wanted to do about 5 of these and set the outdoor table,with a long line of jars. But it was raining, so my indoor display will have to do.
Coloring Rice:
This was the simplest idea I have ever done. I poured the rice in a glass bowl, dropped a few drops of food coloring right on the rice and mixed until well blended. Once blended, I poured into my jars by color. Done!
See? Simple.
The beauty is that I can leave this up til after the fourth of July. Sweet!
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I love the colored rice!!! You could do that for anytime of year with different colors. I’m thinking Halloween & Christmas!!! Pinned it.
Great idea!
Love that jar with the little flags in it. Great idea & so easy to do. Stop by and link up if you have time.
Mary
This is so fun and simple Kim! I love it!
I love this idea. simple and sweet looking!
I love this idea! Pinned to use for our 4th party. Thanks for sharing.
Great idea! I love the colored rice in the jars. Very cute. You can probably even stretch it all the way to Labor Day too given the color scheme.
OMG KIM, I love this idea and am totally “borrowing” it for our Memorial day BBQ. How fun!! Thanks for always having such great ideas.
Thanks so much for linking up Kim! I featured your post in my wrap up http://tidymom.net/2012/summer-ideas/
Have a safe and fabulous holiday weekend!
What a clever idea! I had no idea it was quite so simple to color the rice. I think I may have to try this on the 4th!
Linda
So cute! Every year I say I am going to do this with rice or beans and never do! I’m doing it this year, lol!
I saw this in a linky party and loved everything about it. I’m getting the food coloring and rice out tomorrow! Great ideas!