Make Pasta Art with Your Kids

Pasta art is a inexpensive art project for kids to do. A rainy day or snow day is a good day to pull out the pasta and see how creative your kids can get. Pasta comes in many shapes and sizes so it makes a great art project that can create many things. You can use rainbow, elbow, spaghetti, lasagna, or any type of pasta you have in the house.

Pasta usually comes in just one color. It is a tan color for most pasta but you can find green or orange as well. If your kids want to have different color pasta for their art project then you can actually die the pasta different colors.

Dying pasta is very easy all you need is a plastic bag, food dye and rubbing alcohol. Just take the pasta that you want to dye and put it in the plastic bag. Add several drops of food coloring to the pasta in the bag. After you have the pasta and food coloring in the bag put in a squirt of rubbing alcohol and seal up the bag. Shake the pasta and other ingredients in the bag until the pasta is well coated and the desired color. Let the child shake the bag since it is entertaining for the child and gives you a minute to think. After you have the pasta the right color spread it out on a cookie sheet to let it dry. It will dry fast and then it is ready to use for art projects.

Children can use the colored pasta to make a necklace with. To make a pasta necklace give the child a piece of yarn long enough to slip over a head with four inches or more to spare. The extra inches are for tying the yarn together. Let the child take some elbow pasta or a pasta with a hole running through it and sting the yarn with the pasta.

Pasta picture fames are easy to make with pasta and they can be made any size you want. Just give the child a piece of cardboard cut out to the size of the picture frame you want and give the child some glue and pasta. A pasta picture frame is a great way to display a photo, artwork or creation the child made.

Pencil canisters can also be decorated with pasta. Take a clean can and open it up all the way. Take some glue and pasta and glue the pasta into a design on the outside of the can. These pasta pencil holders are great for a gift for a teacher.

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