If you're planning on making spaghetti for dinner, sit your kids down to work on this fun rainbow spaghetti art craft while you cook! Kids will love turning colored spaghetti into words!
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Note: If you love crafting with pasta, be sure to check our our Paper Plate Sunflower Craft with Pasta, our Pasta Picture Frame and Pasta Snowfakes!
✔️ Why We Love Spaghetti Art
Messy fun! It always amazes me how far a tiny drop of food coloring can go when dying your spaghetti! To minimize messes, just keep a wet towel and small sweeper/dustpan on hand.
Letter Practice- This craft allows younger kids to practice their emerging writing and literacy skills.
Simple supplies- All you need is dyed pasta, paper, pens and glue!
Fun for all ages- Kids of all ages can have fun with spaghetti art!
🛒 Materials for Spaghetti Art
- Thin spaghetti broken into 1-2 inch pieces and dyed (see our post on How to Dye Pasta for instructions!). If you don't have this spaghetti, you could use any kind of dry rice or dry pasta shells.
- Parchment paper to protect your surface
- Construction paper (any paper really, but thicker is better).
- Pencil & marker
- Elmers Glue
Note: this craft is very similar to our Rainbow Rice Letters Craft, except we used thin spaghetti instead of rice. So, there are a lot of different dry ingredients you can use for the craft. Good alternates to the spaghetti: any rice, shell pasta, or alphabet noodles.
📝 Instructions
- Follow instructions on how to dye pasta for crafts and let dyed pasta completely dry. Note: We recommend breaking up spaghetti in small ziplock bags before dying the pasta.
- Write a word on a piece of paper with a pencil. Add pictures or designs around your name if you like. Using a marker, outline each letter with a bubble letter, to make the end result more legible.
- Retrace the pencilled letters with glue. Then sprinkle colored spaghetti on top of glue so that all glue is covered. Lift paper and gently shake off excess noodles either back onto tray or into trash. Note: For very young ones, parents might need to help with this last part. Let your masterpiece dry and get ready to display it for all to see!
➡️ Extend the Fun!
- Use extra dyed pasta for sensory play.
- Practice counting and sorting colored pasta with younger children using extra colored spaghetti.
- Learn how to dye pasta to create collages or other art projects!
- Use remaining colored spaghetti to create picture frames, snowflakes or other pasta crafts.
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🌈Rainbow Spaghetti Art for Kids
Materials
- handful thin spaghetti dyed and broken into 1-2 inch pieces
- 1 sheet parchment or wax paper
- construction paper (any paper really, but thicker is better)
- pencil and marker
- glue
Instructions
- Follow instructions on how to dye pasta for crafts and let dyed pasta completely dry. Note: We recommend breaking up spaghetti in small ziplock bags before dying the pasta.
- Write a word on a piece of paper with a pencil. Add pictures or designs around your name if you like. Using a marker, outline each letter with a bubble letter, to make the end result more legible.
- Retrace the pencilled letters with glue. Then sprinkle colored spaghetti on top of glue so that all glue is covered. Lift paper and gently shake off excess noodles either back onto tray or into trash. Note: For very young ones, parents might need to help with this last part. Let your masterpiece dry and get ready to display it for all to see!
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