Food colouring questions

[Ying]

This stems from my previous thread re Playdoh

So we made playdoh this morning and Becky had a ball. We used those food colouring from supermarket, the 4 primary colour tubes. Now the problem is Becky wanted certain colour that's not on the package like pink. Now I know that to make pink, you mix white and red together but there is no white food colouring

What do you do in my situation? Are there more food colouring choices out there besides the ones I mentioned? I don't usually visit the baking aisle at supermarket so I have no idea

[Lousmum]

you can get pink food colouring Ying

[Ying]

ok, so definitely there are more to choose from besides those 4 tubes I have

[Theresa]

or just add less colouring?

Or, for a natural alternative use beetroot juice

[KristyMum]

as above lol
have fun

[Mandy]

the red food colouring should make pink, if you don't use too much

[kirrily]

Just add a tiny bit of red to make pink. The dough is whitish, right? And yep, there are other colours at the supermarket!

[~*Bron*~]

i'd go the beetroot juice, it's a gorgeous pink! you can also get food colourings made from natural foods, so muted colours, but no chemcials

[megsie]

if you have the primary colours you can always make the secondary and tertiary ones
or let becky simply mix the playdough primary colours together to make other colours. A great way to introduce to colour mixing to her Ying.

[Obsi]

I make pink with just less of the red... infact to make a bright red you have to use like all of the tube of colouring, otherwise all you get is pink unless your playdough base isn't white like mine is....