
My daughter likes to play different characters on a daily basis. Some days she is her favorite cartoon characters, such as Joy from ‘Inside Out’ or Elsa from ‘Frozen’, but most days she like to pretend that she is different baby animals. For the past few days we have been a whole family of ants. She even insisted that she had to wear a black tutu because ants wear black tutus of course. When our post dinner craft time came, it only made sense that baby ant & mama ant made some pasta ants to join our little ant family.
Hot glue 3 pasta shells together side by side as shown. (Adults should operate glue gun)
Glue pasta elbows to the sides to form legs.

Add a couple of short strands of spaghetti to the head for antennae.

Paint your little pasta ants in your favorite ant color. Let it dry.

Add googly eyes to finish off your ants.

Mai set aside a bowl of food for her ants. They were very hungry.

She continued to paint shells & told me that she was making leaves to cover her ant babies. That lead us into craft #2. We painted a handful of shells in green. We let them dry.

Since it was so late we went to bed & picked up our craft the next day. I cut a tree trunk out of construction paper & glued it to a piece of paper. I gave my daughter the shells & some glue and let her fill up her tree.

She scattered her shells all around the branches & then set her project aside to let dry.

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