Playdough & Pasta Sculptures

I saw this post on The Imagination Tree and I thought it was a clever way of using spaghetti, so I put a similar thing out when I needed a quiet activity to calm Poppet down post temper-tantrum while I got on with making tea. We didn't have beads but I have a bag of penne pasta I keep specifically for playdough play so used that instead.



It was the perfect activity to keep her engrossed and she concentrated very hard on threading each bit on. She liked putting the maximum number of penne pasta pieces possible onto each strand of spaghetti (there is a lot of alliteration in that sentence).



It's definitely an activity I will be pulling out again in a tantrum related emergency!