Use Your Noodle: 6 Crafts to Make with Pasta

By Jocelyn Worrall
August 13, 2008
Credit: Heather Weston
Looking for a creative craft idea? Show your good taste with painted pasta.
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Try a Tiara

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Dress up a plastic headband with brightly painted wagon wheels.

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Noodle Necklace

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Jazz up the jewels by adding a bow-tie pendant. Penne and rigatoni work best as the beads.

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All Aboard

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Gather your leftover pasta bits to build this awesome train. Make a few trees to complete the scene.

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Sign Here

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Kids can make plaques, oversize cards, or team posters with cute pasta shapes, paint, and glue.

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Hip Clips

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Get dolled up with fancy farfalle-and-rhinestone barrettes. Hot glue on a plain clip keeps the pasta in place.

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Pencil Cup

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Make this pretty desk accessory from a quart-size milk carton. Glue on pasta, then paint when it's dry.

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Tools of the Trade

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Kid-friendly tools:

* Craft glue

* Tempera paint

* Paintbrushes

* Pasta

* Rhinestones

* Glue gun

* Spray paint

 

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