Craft Ideas For Kids - Kids and Pasta

Photo frames - We use either the bow pasta or the shell pasta. Start with thick cardboard. I
tend to use white so that we can add any color we want. Your frame can either be circular or
square. Cut out the frame, this is the actual full size you’ll want at the end. Then cut out the
middle to fit the size of the photo you want to put in there.

Now decide if you want to spray paint the pasta or use food coloring. Gold metallic spray paint
looks great. We have also made various colors of pasta and made rainbow frames.

If you want to turn your frame into a magnet, add some magnetic tape to the back.

Necklaces and Bracelets – Penne pasta and macaroni noodles make wonderful necklaces
and bracelets. I suggest fishing line. It just doesn’t break. As with the frames, you can use
multiple colors of pasta by adding food dye or you can spray paint the pasta, allow to dry and
then string the pasta onto your fishing line.

Decorative Jars - Save empty jars. Then fill the far with an assortment of shapes and colors of
pasta. These jars make pretty decorations for bathrooms, bedrooms or even end tables.

Pipe Cleaner Figurines - Grab a pipe cleaner. Now arrange pasta on the pipe cleaner to create
people and animals. Mix and match shapes and sizes and then bend to create almost anything.

Self Portraits - Use spaghetti and linguini. Boil just until soft. Then press the pasta onto
construction paper into a self portrait. You can also create landscape scenes using the soft
long noodles.

These are just a few ideas of how to use pasta to create great art projects made by kids.

Audrey Okaneko is mom to two girls. She can be reached at audreyoka@cox.net or visited at
http://www.scrapping-made-simple.com