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While pasta is a favorite amongst foodies, it also is a great tool to make fun crafts with your little ones. While you’re stuck at home and looking for a way to entertain your children, it’s time to get out your Italiano Pasta in different shapes and sizes and make these super fun pasta crafts.
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From animals to jewelry, your children are bound to have an absolute blast making these DIY pasta activities:
Sunflower pasta craft
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You’ll need:
- White paper
- Paint
- Italiano’s fusilli shaped pasta
- Green pipe cleaners
- Glue
Instructions:
- Start off by making two circles in brown paint as you can see in the photo above.
- Dab some white paint on it to give a more natural effect.
- Connect a green pipe cleaner to the circle to make the stem and glue down.
- Surround the circles with Italiano’s fusilli pasta and glue down on the paper.
- Bend two pipe cleaners in half to make the leaves and glue towards the end of each stem.
Lion pasta art
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You’ll need:
- Italiano’s fusilli pasta
- Yellow or orange paper
- Orange and black markers or paint
- Glue
- Googly eyes
- Scissors
Instructions:
- Draw a large circle on your yellow paper and cut it out.
- Stick your googly eyes with your glue and draw the lion’s nose and mouth with a black marker.
- Surround the lion’s face with Italian’s fusilli pasta and color half of them in orange to add more some more fun to your lion pasta craft.
- Glue the pasta down and voila!
Fish and turtle pasta craft
You’ll need:
- Colored paper
- Paint
- Googly eyes
- Italiano Pasta in several shapes
- Glue
- Scissors
- Black marker
Instructions are shown in the video above.
Pasta snails
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You’ll need:
- Italiano shell pasta
- Paint
- Clay or play dough
- Thin wire
Instructions:
- Shape your clay or play dough into a short, thick wormy structure and lift the front part upwards.
- Paint Italiano’s shell pasta in various colors to make the snail’s shell.
- Add the shell pasta onto the middle back of your wormy structure and apply a little bit of pressure for it to stick into the clay.
- Cut two small pieces of wire and shape the end into a circle to make the eyes and insert them into the top front part of your snail.
Pasta Ornaments
You’ll need:
- Italiano Pasta in different shapes
- String
- Gold paint or spray paint
- Glue
Instructions are shown in the video above.
Pasta suncatcher
You’ll need:
- Italiano Pasta in several shapes
- Paint or you can dye the pasta in advance
- Glue
- Large plastic circular lid
Instructions are shown in the video above.
Pasta hanging crafts
You’ll need:
- Italiano’s penne pasta
- Paint
- Glue
- Mini pompoms
- Ribbon flower
Instructions are shown in the video above.
Pasta Jewelry
You’ll need:
- Italiano pasta in different shapes
- String
- Glue gun
- Foam
- Needle
- Jump rings
- Chain
Instructions are shown in the video above.
Further reading: The Easiest Way to Make Slime for Your Kids at Home.
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