Pasta Art

Pasta art is a great cheap art activity, all you need is glue and paper and then whatever dry ingredients you have in your pantry. In fact you don't even need to just stick to pasta - we used rice, sunflower seeds, popcorn kernels and lentils as well as spaghetti, fusilee and penne pasta. 

Because of all the different textures it's also a good sensory activity as well as a creative one. We decided to try and make flowers; I had a book open at a picture of a flower for reference. Poppet liked deciding which foods to use for the 'stem' and 'petals' but mostly just liked spreading lots of glue everywhere!

Poppet: 2yrs 9mos

Little 1yr

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!