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Pasta is not only a delicious side dish, but also an excellent material for creating all kinds of crafts with your own hands. After all, they are so easy to process, available in large quantities and in a variety of types. For preschool and school-age children, “pasta crafts” will help develop fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination, and for adults it will become an exciting hobby. In this material you will find 15 ideas for DIY pasta crafts, 100 inspiring photo examples, several simple instructions and a step-by-step master class on coloring pasta with food coloring.
Idea 2. Hair accessories
Pasta can be so beautiful that you can even decorate your hair with it. So, for example, an ordinary hairband will become more elegant if you stick on it spikelets painted with gold spray paint.
You can also make a tiara for a little princess from a headband and wheels and flowers glued together.
You can make hair decorations from butterflies. To do this, they need to be decorated and then glued to bobby pins, clips or hairpins.
Pasta in the picture
It is enough to take gouache or an aerosol can of paint, and the most ordinary horns, tubes or bows will turn into a beautiful bright material for creativity.
If you are creating with your baby, use sizes of pasta that are appropriate for the development and age of your child. In addition, always monitor the process to avoid getting into the mouth and swallowing them by the youngest masters!
Also for creativity you will need PVA glue or any other fast and strong glue, cardboard, colored paper and scissors. The further process depends only on the flight of your imagination.
Idea 4. Panels and paintings made from pasta
From pasta of different sizes, shapes and colors you can create wall panels or “paint” real paintings - portraits, landscapes, still lifes and abstract scenes. There are at least two techniques for making pasta paintings.
Method 1: Find a suitable embroidery pattern on the Internet and select identical small-sized pasta. For example, these could be very small tubes or stars. Paint the pasta in the desired colors (see the master class at the end of the article), and then glue them to the canvas on a stretcher according to the chosen embroidery pattern. You can glue the parts using PVA glue or thermal glue (in this case, it is better to apply the glue to the pasta and not to the canvas).
Method 2: By hand or using a ready-made/homemade stencil, draw a schematic sketch on the canvas. Think about what kind of pasta will suit your design. So, for example, spirals are suitable for depicting hair, tubes can depict the bricks of a house, shells can be themselves, and all the small horns, stars, etc. can be used to “fill” or “draw” contours. You also need to plan what colors will be used for the painting. Keep in mind that you can create a composition not only from pasta, but also from cereals and beans. Having decided on the palette, paint the pasta (see the master class at the end of the article), and then glue them in the desired order.
The following selection of photos provides examples of panels and paintings from pasta that children can make, for example, to decorate their room, for a school assignment, or to give as a gift to a loved one.
Panel of shells, feathers and butterflies
Panel of pasta bows
Here are ideas for crafts made from cereals and pasta for creative adults.
Portrait of Ernest Hemingway made from pasta and cereal
Abstract composition of spaghetti and pasta on a base of CDs
Box of pasta
You will need: a metal round box for cookies, pasta of different shapes, glue, brush, paints.
Master Class
- Place the pasta flower on the lid of the box.
- Lay out pasta of different shapes, creating a pattern (a pattern around the circumference of the lid).
- Take a photo of the placement of the pasta on the lid, then remove it.
- Paint the pasta a bright color and leave to dry.
- Paint the lid and box, then leave to dry.
- Place the pasta on the lid of the box according to the pattern you created.
- Glue each pasta to the lid.
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The pasta box is ready!
Idea 6. Stationery organizer
Any glass and even a tin can can be turned into a cute organizer for stationery items. All you need is pasta, glue and acrylic paints.
Simple DIY pasta crafts for kids
When you don’t know what to do with your baby so that he doesn’t get naughty, prepare several small packs of pasta of different fractions, glue, cardboard and start creating.
Amazing sea craft - fish
Interesting applications with pasta and colored cardboard
Having prepared the necessary materials and a list of tools, make a sketch according to which you will realize your handmade masterpiece. You can come up with applications on any topic, it all depends on your desire. Let's start with the marine composition.
Idea 8. Pasta box
A box made of wheels or flowers may seem like the result of the finest work of a master, but, in fact, anyone can make such a craft with their own hands. To do this, you need to select a small box, line up the bottom of the box according to its dimensions, then assemble the walls of the box directly around the walls of the box using glue, and finally, make a lid of the appropriate size. If desired, you can glue handles assembled from several parts to the sides of the box, and glue the legs to the bottom. Next, the lid and the box should be connected to each other using pieces of flexible plastic or leather. When the product is ready, all that remains is to cover it with spray paint.
There is an easier way to make a box of pasta with your own hands, when a ready-made box or box is taken as a basis, and the pasta is used only for decoration.
The main thing here is to create beautiful and neat patterns and carefully paint both the box itself and the pasta decorations. To paint this pasta craft, it is best to use aerosol cans.
How and what to glue pasta in crafts with
The following options are suitable for combining pasta in crafts:
- Hot-melt adhesive in the form of a glue gun, which is sold in craft departments. The glue here is silicone and comes out hot, and when it hardens it forms a hard plastic drop. The supplied consistency hardens quickly, and therefore it is advisable to glue a large number of parts in one feed.
- PVA glue gives a short-lived result and can come unglued at the slightest impact. Using this product, the elements will have to be glued together longer. One of its advantages is considered to be clean work, without the presence of drops and adhesive sagging.
The best means for gluing parts in pasta crafts are a glue gun and PVA glue
- Glue stick is considered a cheap but unreliable product.
- Other types of glue such as “Moment”, “Titanium”, “Dragon” and “Crystal” are also suitable.
Idea 10. Postcards with pasta decor
The same bows or, say, pasta hearts can be used to make cards with your own hands. The principle of operation remains the same as for making bookmarks (see Idea No. 9). And here is a selection of photo examples of “pasta” postcards.
Educational games made from pasta
Pasta is an ideal material for playing with children of the first year of life . Every mother can make DIY pasta crafts for playing with her baby without much time or money.
Color palette learning games
With the help of pasta, you can teach your baby to distinguish the colors that surround him in everyday life. Considering the fact that children under one year old put everything in their mouths, stock up on larger pasta. Then coat them with child-safe paint using a basic color palette. That's it, great material for the gameplay is ready!
Number learning games
Tube-shaped or butterfly-shaped pasta can be used as counting sticks.
For ease of use, you can paint them in a neutral color and lay them out on the table one at a time, studying counting and the concept of many and few.
In the future, it will be possible to ask the child to independently select a certain number of pasta from a common pile at the request of an adult.
Baby's first sorters
The range of pasta products on supermarket shelves makes them an excellent option for a child's first sorter. For such an activity, you need to buy special children's pasta in the form of animals or geometric shapes. Next, make boxes with compartments from scrap materials or simply use ordinary transparent disposable cups.
Give your child the task of putting figures of a certain shape into the compartments of a box or into cups, gradually filling them. Thus, the baby will learn not only to concentrate, but will also succeed in developing fine motor skills.
Idea 14. Mini Christmas tree
If you liked the idea of making pasta angels, garlands or Christmas tree decorations, then we suggest adding a Christmas tree made from pasta to your collection of New Year’s decor. This craft would look great on a holiday table, console table, or mantelpiece.
Instructions:
Prepare thick paper or cardboard, a glass bottle or a large glass, hot glue, spray paint (for example, gold), a pack of butterfly pasta and any additional decor such as beads. Cut a semicircle out of cardboard, roll it into a cone and secure with glue. Keep in mind that the higher the cardboard, the taller the tree will be. Having placed the cone on the bottle, start gluing butterflies in one row on its lower edge. Then proceed to the second row, but now place the pasta so that it overlaps the gaps in the first row.
Continue gluing butterflies using the same principle until the very top, so that the cone is completely hidden under the Christmas tree “branches”. Once the glue is dry, spray paint on the tree and then glue on beads for decoration.
In the following selection of photos you can find other ideas for creating Christmas trees from pasta.
Scallop Christmas tree
Christmas tree made from different pasta and Christmas tree made from shells
Christmas trees made of feathers and spirals
Choosing a pasta shape
The more different figures are used, the more interesting it becomes. The stores sell feathers, shells, stars, spirals, spaghetti. The elements are small. It is important to remember: it is dangerous for children under three years old to play with them; adults need to be careful. An exciting, useful game, you can't refuse it. It promotes the development of visual-figurative thinking, imagination, and fine motor skills.
It is convenient to make marine-themed crafts from shells. Stars make the best holiday crafts, enchanting ones. And from spaghetti, spirals, rings - cars, mechanisms. A bouquet of vermicelli flowers, a portrait of superheroes, characters from a fairy tale will delight those around you, but you need dyes to add brightness. Which ones can I use? What do you use to glue pasta together?
Angel
You will need: pasta of different shapes, wooden balls, glue gun, string, paints.
Master Class
- Take a pasta tube and glue it with a wooden ball.
- Glue 2 small noodles as handles.
- Take a bow-shaped pasta and glue it on as wings.
- Apply hot glue to the ball and attach small macarons as hair curls.
- Color the angel to your liking and wait for it to dry.
- Make a loop out of the string and glue it to the back of the angel’s head.
The pasta angel is ready! Also check out Easter Pasta Crafts.
