By edible I was thinking that great.It's safe if she does put it in her mouth but she's 14 months old and of course, she wants to eat little pieces and picks them off.These were nice to use with the play dough tools that we had. The orange one smelled like to turmeric So I knew that they were natural. I didn't smell any of the other ones yet. But it's Best to follow the directions for water to powder ratio so that it doesn't turn out too watery.