Pasta Crafts

This framed pasta craft project gives your child's artwork an appetizing finishing touch. She'll enjoy pretending that she's a professional artist in a real gallery with this art craft.

What You'll Need:

Step 1: Have your child decorate the mat with assorted shapes of pasta, and glitter and sequins. Glue them on the frame in a random design; let the glue dry.

Step 2: Cut 4 pieces of magnetic strips and glue them to the back of the mat. Use this decorated mat to display your child's drawings on the refrigerator. Change the picture as often as you like.

Popcorn isn't the only food you can use to decorate a Christmas tree. Learn how to make a pasta lace ornament in the next section.

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These pasta lace ornaments not only make exquisite Christmas tree decorations, but they also look very pretty hanging in a window. Teach your child how to make this pasta craft.

What You'll Need:

Step 1: Cover the work surface with waxed paper. Mix some water and food coloring together in a small bowl. Repeat for other colors.

Step 2: Dip 7 pasta wheels and 6 elbow macaroni pieces in the bowls, alternating colors. Let all pasta pieces dry.

Step 3: Arrange 6 pasta wheels in a circular pattern with 1 pasta wheel in the center. Apply glue to the sides of the pasta wheels and glue them together.

Step 4: Glue the 6 elbow macaroni pieces around the circle of pasta wheels. To make the ornament hanger, bring the ends of a small piece of ribbon together to form a loop. Glue the ends to the back of the ornament.

Spell out your child's masterpiece with alphabet art. On the next page, we'll show you how to create alphabet art.

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Your child will love to spell out the objects in this alphabet art project with pasta letters. This pasta craft opens a new art form for your child.

What You'll Need:

This art form, known as word graphs, uses words to draw an outline of an object. For example, the words sun and shine form a sun's shape. The word sun is used to outline the round part of the sun, and the word shine is used to outline the sun's rays.

Step 1: Gather letters from alphabet pasta so your child can make a picture with words. If you don't have any alphabet pasta, you can still make a word graph -- just draw the letters.

Step 2: Glue the alphabet pasta to a piece of paper to make the picture. Fill in any missing letters or add more details with markers.

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