Use Your Noodle: 6 Crafts to Make with Pasta

Dress up a plastic headband with brightly painted wagon wheels.

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

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

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

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

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

Kid-friendly tools:

* Craft glue

* Tempera paint

* Paintbrushes

* Pasta

* Rhinestones

* Glue gun

* Spray paint