Rainbow Grilled Cheese Sandwiches (2 ways!)
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If you are like me and always on the lookout for good books... here are our 15+ favorite books on rainbows:
- A Rainbow of My Own
- Planting a Rainbow
- The Magic School Bus Makes a Rainbow
- The Rainbow Goblins
- The Rainbow Book
- Elmer and The Rainbow
- My Many Colored Days
- The Day the Crayons Quit
- Moonbear's Skyfire
- Mix it Up
- A Day With No Crayons
- Red: A Crayon's story
- The Crayon Box that talked
- Mouse Paint
- Little Blue and Little Yellow
- A Color of His Own
- Quest
and our favorite unicorn books.. (because rainbows and unicorns go together like peas in a pod!)
- Unicorn thinks he's pretty great
- My Little Pony Friendship is Magic books (This one is for older kids... but my son enjoys listening to the easier-to-read ones!)
Ok Wanna know the secret to making these fabulously colorful rainbow grilled cheese sandwiches?
Gel food coloring!
Yup.
Now here are 2 ways of making them!
Method 1: Paint Rainbow Bread
Mix drops of Gel food coloring with milk. Watch in amazement as the milk turns super brightly colored. Then, grab a cooking brush and paint your bread!
Aren't the colors just yummy?
Then, place your bread on a pan, and make grilled cheese sandwiches like you normally would. :) Ooh la la! You've got yourself a colorful and edible piece of art!
Method 2: Make Rainbow Cheese
This time, we're going to dye our cheese rainbow colors. Once again, grab your Gel food coloring and mix it with your favorite white cheese. Only a few drops will do!
Then, sprinkle your rainbow cheese onto bread and pop it under the broiler....
and you've got yourself an open-faced rainbow grilled cheese sandwich!
(Note: I tried making a traditional 2-bread grilled cheese sandwich with the rainbow cheese thinking that the rainbow colors would ooze out when I cut the bread. Urmmm... they didn't. I used uber cheap white bread that just remained stuck together. So the open-faced sandwich definitely is the way to go if you want to showcase the colors.)
My son happens to love corn tortillas, so we made him an open-faced rainbow tortilla on the frying pan.
:) I hope you have fun with this colorful food art project. And if you're looking for other fun food activities, here are
16 More Creative and Fun Food Activities!
- Make Tortilla Art
- Tattoo Your Bananas
- "Stamp" designs on Toast
- Make Candy Mosaics
- Shiny Corn Syrup Paint
- Rainbow Milk Explosions
- Oil and Colored Ice Science
- Gummy Bear Science
- Gumdrop Flowers and Leaves
- Magic Appearing Food Prints
- Shake shake- make your own butter!
- Corn Husk Dolls
- Silly Veggie Monsters
- Eggshell Sidewalk Chalk
- Oatmeal Face Masks
- Chocolate Face Masks
