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    Real Food Crafts

    Why throw away those dinner scraps when you can make beautiful art with them? Our real food crafts will also help teach your kids about what they're eating!

    We love these popular pasta-based crafts: How to Make Sunflowers with Paper Plates and Pasta, DIY Play Food Mac and Cheese and Gratitude Words Craft. And be sure to read our simple instructions to dye pasta for crafts.

     

    three colorful pumpkins

    Fun with Melting Crayons on Pumpkins

    different pastas dyed different colors drying on parchment paper

    How to Dye Pasta for Crafts

    paper plate sunflower with pasta petals

    Paper Plate Sunflower Craft with Pasta

    Rainbow Spaghetti Art with Words

    child holding a plate of play food mac and cheese

    Make DIY Play Food Pasta: Mac & Cheese

    several paper cardboard heart frames

    The Best DIY Cardboard Frame with Pasta

    colored tortilla with hearts

    Color Tortillas with Edible Paint

    Roasted Chickpeas with Cinnamon and Sugar

    Sweet Roasted Chickpeas with Sugar and Cinnamon

    three felt snowmen holding candy canes

    Adorable Snowman Candy Cane Holders

    Strawberry Santa Hats

    Strawberry Santa Hats

    pancakes made into letters MOM and a heart

    Easy Pancake Shapes

    squash decorated as a turkey with drawn-on eyes and fall colored felt tail, beak and feet

    Felt Turkey Craft with Squash

    skeleton veggies with dip

    Skeleton Veggie Tray

    three eggplant witches

    DIY Witch Decor with Eggplant

    four bell pepper art stamps on white paper

    Peppers Art For Kids

    Two rice ghosts

    Ghost Puppets with Rice

    painted toast in hand

    Simple Painted Toast

    the word family spelled with painted pasta

    Gratitude Words Craft

    colorful paint made from egg yolk

    Egg Yolk Paint

    Turkey Fruit Plate

    Fruit Turkey Platter

    three marshmallow snowmen

    Marshmallow Snowman Craft for Kids

    two paper snowflakes with pasta

    Easiest Paper Snowflake with Pasta

    Drawing of an apple tree with a basket of apples and ladder on yellow paper, with leek food scraps as the tree leaves

    Crafting with Food Scraps

    child holding bags of trail mix

    Homemade Trail Mix

    cod painted with rainbow colors

    Peach Pit Rainbow Stamp Art

    Asparagus People Vegetable Craft

    Asparagus People

    bowtie pasta decorated like sparkly butterflies on paper

    Bow Tie Pasta Butterflies

    red string necklace with lettuce and rainbow beads

    Butter Lettuce Necklace

    child holding paper with name written in colorful rice letters

    Rainbow Rice Letters

    erupting lemon volcano

    Lemon Volcano Experiment

    sweet potato heart stamp on pink paper

    Sweet Potato Heart Stamps

    kitchen pan filled with cornmeal and toys

    Sensory Cornmeal Sandbox

    bok choy roses with paint

    Bok Choy Roses

    handprint with quinoa

    Quinoa Handprints

    potato head with real potato

    Ms. Potato

    tree drawn on paper with dyed pasta shells as leaves

    Falling Leaves Tree Craft

    hand pushing avocado boat

    Adorable Boat Craft with Avocado Skins

    Shaker instrument craft

    Homemade Shaker Instruments with Pasta

    drawing of shrimp with pasta feet

    Draw a Shrimp with Noodles

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    We are two sisters with young kids who want to help simplify mealtime for busy families! Platein28 is our family’s unofficial guide to wading through mealtime chaos. Here you will find quality recipes that take 28 minutes or less, with activities to occupy your kids so you can actually cook.

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    Kids Crafts & Activities

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    • How to Dye Pasta for Crafts
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