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Find out how to color beans for sensory play so you can enjoy some metallic colored beans in your child's next sensory bin.

I'm slightly addicted to metallic liquid watercolors. So I couldn't resist dyeing some sensory bin fillers in gold, silver, and copper.





The result? These beautiful metallic colored beans.





Quick and easy to make, these shimmery metallic beans are so much fun to play with.





I'm kind of obsessed with how they turned out. "They're magical," as my then five year old liked to say a lot at the time I made these.









Metallic Colored Beans: How to Dye Beans for Sensory Play To make some metallic colored beans for sensory play, you will need:





Liquid watercolors in metallic gold, metallic silver, and metallic copper - I use the brand found at Michael's.

Small white beans

Small resealable bags for dyeing the beans

Paper towel for drying the dyed beans





Oooh la la! Aren't they pretty?!













Metallic Colored Beans Sensory Bin

Now how about some photos of all those metallic colors mixed together?





J loved them so much that they literally had him seeing hearts. "Mom, mom, mom! It's a heart!!"









What do you think? What's your favorite color of the metallic dyed beans? I think I like the gold best.





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Put some beans in a bag, add a a few squirts of liquid watercolors, and then shake.Regular liquid watercolors don't seem to dye beans as well as food coloring. However, I find that these metallic liquid watercolors have a thicker consistency, so they did a great job at dyeing the beans.Once the color was evenly distributed, I placed the colored beans on some paper towel to dry. They dried pretty quickly, within an hour or so. Once they are dry to the touch, they are ready for play.Time for some close up shots. Bam!