Pasta crafts and activities are a favorite of ours. My daughter & I love working with the different types of pasta. All of the assorted shapes and sizes offer so many possibilities.
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One of our favorite crafts was a fall tree craft using pasta shells. This was a huge hit with my daughter. Moving into the holiday season, I thought that we could do another pasta tree craft, this time with a Christmas theme.
I am sure that it is no surprise to my readers that I love pasta crafts. They are my favorite. As I have told you before, I have more pasta boxes set aside for crafting than I do for cooking. Here are 20 fun pasta crafts that you can do with your kids.
Next week starts football pre-season. While I don’t actually care for football (see my post ‘A Football Widow’s Rant’), my husband does & so does my daughter. She watched her first game at only one week old. I am not actually sure if it is the game that she enjoys or the fact that she gets to cuddle up with her father & eat chips & dip.
With football season quickly approaching, I thought that a football craft was essential.
As you all know, I am a huge fan of making pasta crafts. I especially love working with jumbo shells. They were perfect for what I had in mind.
Pasta Shell Footballs
This is an easy & quick craft. All you will need is jumbo pasta shells & brown & white paint.
Directions:
Paint the jumbo pasta shells in brown & let them dry.
Use a skinny paint brush to paint white lines on the shells & give the appearance of a football.
Let your little footballs dry.
I thought Mai did a great job on her football. She painted in her lines very carefully.
I painted a football field for our tiny pasta footballs to sit on. Mai wanted to make pasta football players too. Maybe another day little girl.
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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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I am beginning to think that there is nothing that cannot be made out of pasta shells. Because my daughter loves working with them just as much as I do, we are back with another round of pasta crafts. Tonight, our craft of choice is fish.
What you will need:
Jumbo pasta shells
Medium pasta shells
Bowtie pasta
Chick peas
Acrylic paint
Glue gun (use caution when operating a glue gun. Not recommended for small children.)
Directions:
To assemble your fish, glue a medium pasta shell into the end of the jumbo shell.
Glue 2 more medium shells to the side of the jumbo shell to form fins.
Glue a piece of bowtie pasta to the other end of the jumbo shell to form the back fin.
Paint your fish with acrylic paints.
Paint a chick pea in white for each fish that you are creating.
Add a black dot in the center for the eye ball.
Glue the eyes to the painted fish to finish off the craft.
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Our daughter is becoming quite the artist. She has been drawing & painting up a storm. One of her favorite things to draw is a snail. She loves to draw them. She makes a swirling circle for a body, antennae with eyes & she never forgets to add his snail slime.
We have been making a lot of crafts lately to celebrate her new found love for the snail. Tonight we used mommy’s favorite crafting material, pasta shells.
What you will need:
Jumbo pasta shells
Ziti for the antennae
Elbow macaroni for the tail
A medium sized shell for the head
Chick peas for the eyes
Glue gun
Acrylic paint
You may choose to paint the pieces first or assemble the pieces & then paint. We typically paint first. Tonight we did both.
To assemble, start by gluing the small shell into the larger one.
Glue 2 pieces of ziti on top of the jumbo shell. Hold into place until the glue hardens.
Glue the elbow macaroni to the empty end of the shell so that the macaroni is pointing up.
Paint the chickpeas white with a black center for the eyes. Glue to the top of the ziti.
Paint swirls on the side of the snail bodies in a different color to complete your creatures.
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They say “The way to a man’s heart is through his stomach.” This could very well be true & the fastest way to get there is with a strip of bacon. I don’t know what is about guys & bacon, but I don’t think I have ever met a man yet that didn’t love it, My husband would literally put it on everything if he could. One of his favorite phrases that he mutters during dinner is “I bet this would be good with bacon on it.” Tonight’s meal is all about the hubby.
Ingredients:
1/2 of a package of bacon
1/2 cut of seasoned breadcrumbs
1 1 lb box of shells
2 cups of shredded sharp cheddar
1/2 cup of margarine or butter
2 cups of milk
1 tsp worcestershire
1/4 cup flour
1/2 tsp sea salt
1/2 tsp ground mustard
1/8 tsp pepper
Directions:
Bacon bread crumbs
Prepare bacon. Cook it on the crispy side. Drain well & blot to get the excess grease off. Cool and crumble into a food processor. Pulse until all of the bacon is in crumbs. Blot more if needed. Mix with the bread crumbs & set aside.
Cook pasta according to package directions & drain. Pour drained pasta into a large pot.
Preheat oven to 400. In a saucepan over low heat melt the margarine or butter. Add the flour, salt, ground mustard & pepper. Stir well until smooth. Stir in the milk & add worcestershire sauce. Increase the heat and stir continuously until the mixture comes to a boil. Remove from the heat and stir in the cheese. Stir until smooth & then pour over the pasta. Mix well until shells are evenly coated & transfer to a baking dish. Top with your bread crumb mixture. I used about 3/4 of a cup. Use how ever little or a lot that you prefer. Bake for about 20 minutes.
Enjoy!
