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Pasta is not only a delicious side dish, but also an excellent material for creating all kinds of crafts with your own hands. After all, they are so easy to process, available in large quantities and in a variety of types. For preschool and school-age children, “pasta crafts” will help develop fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination, and for adults it will become an exciting hobby. In this material you will find 15 ideas for DIY pasta crafts, 100 inspiring photo examples, several simple instructions and a step-by-step master class on coloring pasta with food coloring.
Necessary materials
You should stock up on adhesives, paints, and in the case of bulky items, inflatable balloons and cardboard. At the same time, the costs for raw materials are extremely insignificant.
Glue
The best quality fixation of the elements will be ensured by a glue gun filled with silicone glue. First, squeeze out a drop of glue, and then apply the required amount with a toothpick. PVA glue is also used. However, it does not have the required qualities, in particular reliability and durability.
Coloring agents
When making a large painted item, for example, a decorative vessel, the pasta is painted with a composition for Easter eggs in advance.
To fix the dye, the pasta is placed in a weak vinegar solution with dye, until it is uniformly colored, and then laid out to dry.
The finished pasta product is also painted with acrylic paints with a brush or using a can of paint.
DIY pasta crafts for children in the form of applications
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This type of work is considered the simplest and most interesting for small children - suitable for crafts with children 2-3 years of age.
Prepare a sheet of paper with objects drawn on it, grease the objects with glue and invite the child to line the inner space of the objects with the pasta they like along the contour. Regular PVA glue is quite suitable for gluing.
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Making a teapot
The ball is inflated to the desired diameter, and then its surface is covered with pasta glued together in the shape of a gear. This form allows you to avoid gaps and cracks.
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At the same time, we should not forget about the need for free space for the lid. The ball is pierced and removed, and a stand is glued to the bottom of the structure.
Panel
At the first stage, you need to stock up on a photo frame, draw it yourself or find a sketch of the planned panel on the Internet and purchase the most suitable shapes of pasta.
Thin pasta can be useful for creating sunbursts, and bow-shaped pasta makes great butterflies. Then the finished drawing on cardboard is pasted over with the prepared material.
Cereals, coffee and legumes are also used in the production of panels. Plasticine as a base will be more convenient for the child.
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Material properties
History is silent about when pasta first expanded human views on creativity. But most likely, the masters paid attention to them because of their unusual properties, which best contribute to a riot of imagination. As a starting man-made material for children and adults, pasta is attractive because it:
- simple and widely available (at a price as well);
- incredibly durable;
- safe (in every sense);
- durable;
- extremely varied in shape, size, color;
- practical.
Pasta is extremely diverse in shape, size, color.
It is difficult to find a kitchen in our country that does not have pasta. They are not in short supply, and their affordability means that both beginners and experienced craftsmen do not lack raw materials.
Pasta is not easy to break, and this is a big plus for preserving finished crafts. The safety of the horns is unconditional: there are no preservatives, harmful substances, or chemical dyes in them. The variety of pasta products only increases every year. Moreover, this applies not only to shape and size, but also to color. Today, thanks to natural vegetable additives, you can find yellow, red, green, black, and brown products. The shelves of modern stores are literally bursting with spaghetti, horns, bows, stars, snails, shells, curls, tubes, alphabets, and cobwebs. And there are clearly no reasons to stop this species riot.
Vessels
Such vessels will give the kitchen a more aesthetically attractive look. Pre-selected small jars should be washed and dried.
Pasta of various types must be painted with food colors of different colors, dried and placed in jars, covered with pieces of burlap and tied with twine.
The color of the pasta is selected in such a way that it does not create a feeling of dissonance with the predominant color of the kitchen.
Crafts made by children
Pasta crafts for children, made by children themselves, develop useful skills in them and prepare them for adult life. These products should be easy enough to make so that the child gets a taste of independent activity.
Pasta for little ones
Everyone has creative inclinations. And they need to be developed from early childhood. Pasta in this sense is a fertile material for several reasons. They will teach kids to see “miracles” in the most ordinary objects, that is, to think outside the box. They will perfectly develop fine motor skills of still immature fingers, help them master counting and sorting identical objects by shape and color.
On a note! Before starting creativity, you can simply play with preschoolers or first-graders.
You can give everyone a box with empty cells and ask them to arrange the pasta according to shape and color; you can learn counting and even the alphabet if you lay out letters from ordinary straight pasta. Then you can proceed to the simplest crafts.
There are several options for developing pasta creativity for kids:
- beads;
- simple flat pictures;
- coloring macaroni bows;
- preparation of paperwork.
Of course, this list can be expanded. Beads and bracelets made from pasta for little fashionistas are fun and beautiful, especially if you pre-paint the blanks in different colors. And if you have gold and silver paints, you can make excellent handmade beads for the New Year. Seeing your child’s handicrafts on the Christmas tree is not just a pleasure, but also a real pride.
Beautiful beads made from pasta
The technology for making pasta pictures on paper is similar to crafts made from cereals: a sketch is made, a thin layer of plasticine or glue is applied, and the pasta is laid out. In this type of work you can go a little further. Prepare a finished figurine from thick paper or cardboard, for example, a Christmas tree, a house or an angel and ask your child to decorate it with pasta. The Christmas tree can be pre-painted green. If, with age, interest in handmade pasta has only increased, you can move on to more complex and impressive products.
Beads
To make this pasta craft with your own hands, no special preparation is required. This work is available to children of any age.
Pasta of the desired size and shape is selected, colored, dried and strung on a fishing line or thread. The same method is used to make a bracelet. Rings and pendants can be made from butterfly-shaped pasta.
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How to achieve a ball shape in pasta crafts?
You will need a regular balloon. It should be inflated in the shape that the workpiece is needed. For example, if you plan to make a small round teapot, you can take a small ball. If your child wants to make a heart-shaped craft, a ball in the appropriate shape will come in handy.
The ball should be inflated and covered with pasta. They should be placed tightly together on top of the ball. After the glued parts have dried, you can use a sharp needle to pierce the ball and deflate it.
Important recommendation: do not inflate the balloon too tightly. If a tightly inflated balloon is punctured, it can simply explode and thus damage the finished and glued pasta structure.
The simplest homemade crafts made from colored pasta are colored souvenirs in a jar! To do this you will need jars of different shapes, small burlap, thread and colored pasta.
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An important nuance - select pasta in a jar so that it fits harmoniously into the interior of the furniture or kitchen design.
As you can see, this is not a difficult task at all - how to make pasta crafts with your own hands. This is a great way to spend time with young children of preschool and school age, as well as developing fine motor skills and imagination.
Applications
The level of difficulty of the work is selected so that the child can do it without outside help. For example, an applique depicting a sheep is made using a paper cut-out body, which is glued to a cardboard base, and pasta is glued onto it to give shape.
Applications can depict various birds, animals, fish and plants. For convenience and ease of work, plasticine is used as a base.
Christmas angels
To make the head you need a foam ball. You will also need large pasta for the body, bows for the wings, smaller ones for the hair and horns for the arms.
After gluing, a hanging loop is attached, and finally you can draw a face and decorate the finished figure with pasta stars.
To choose the option that suits you, you should familiarize yourself with photos of pasta crafts posted on the Internet.
DIY pasta beads
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This is also a great way to collaborate with children. What will you need? A simple fishing line and various pasta that can be strung on it - tubes, wheels, spirals, stars, etc.
After all the pasta is strung on a fishing line, invite your child to decorate them with gouache or watercolors.
If you are working with an older child, you can use a needle and thread rather than a fishing line.
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