Fun Crafts to Make with Italiano Pasta

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.