Do-it-yourself pasta crafts can be made even by the youngest art lovers. Often, it is pasta that becomes one of the first materials that children learn in kindergarten and at home: first they learn to sort through them, sorting them by size and shape, and then they begin to create different pictures and three-dimensional figures from them.
The creation of such crafts does not imply the constant and direct participation of an adult - the teacher can simply explain the progress of work and observe the process that children usually cope with on their own.
Most simple crafts pasta for children is an application using a key element made according to a template. For example, if you glue the muzzle of a lion to a sheet of paper in advance, all that remains is to lay out his mane with long pasta.
For gluing pasta, it is better to use transparent stationery glue or a glue gun.
You can prepare the core of the flower and its stem with a chenille leaf, and turn the pasta into petals.
If the pasta is pre-colored, the scope for creativity will become even wider.
So, a few colored pastas and an ice cream stick painted with bright colors easily turn into an elegant dragonfly.
Very interesting applications are obtained from colored pasta.
You can lay out a beautiful Christmas tree with green pasta.
The Christmas tree can be painted - it will turn out very touching and elegant.
Interesting pictures can be created using pasta in the form of bows.
Pasta "bows"
They are very easy to turn into fragile colorful butterflies and grass.
The image of butterflies is completed by the antennae painted with a felt-tip pen and the bright trajectories of their flight.
From pasta "horns" you get very beautiful scales for a fish.
Application of pasta "Fish"
From pasta "small shells", amazingly touching leaves are obtained.
Application of pasta "Autumn tree"
If pasta is boiled, then from them and other products you can create a real edible application!
Craft from products "Steam locomotive"
From an ordinary cardboard box and pasta, you can create a stand for pens and pencils.
Mosaic of pasta "Flowers"
Sliced and dyed pasta can make amazing mosaics. As a basis, we can take any mass for modeling, which tends to harden in air. By pressing pasta, we create any desired pattern or image.
A mosaic of pasta "Flowers" can be created even by our smallest student.
You can create a bigger flower. By laying out colored pasta, you can create more complex images.
Mosaic "flower"
Such simple ideas will help the kids take a fresh look at the usual pasta for a look and will surely become the basis for creating unique, inimitable, children's masterpieces.
DIY Easter basket of pasta
DIY Easter egg from pasta
Pasta snowflake (option 1)
From pasta you can create beautiful Christmas decoration"Snowflake". Creating crafts is possible if available different kind pasta: spaghetti, spirals, bows, rounded bows.
We break the spaghetti into two parts and put it into piles of 3-4 pasta. We need to glue the spaghetti together. At the end of the glued spaghetti, a “rounded bow” is glued.
Cut out the paper snowflake base.
We fix the glued pasta on a paper basis. We decorate the paper base with bow pasta.
Glue the "bows"
We decorate the rays of the snowflake with pasta "rounded bow" and put them on the bows inside the snowfields. Coloring the snowflake in frosty colors. Our beautiful snowflake is ready!
Pasta snowflake (option 2)
You can make a slightly different pasta snowflake. To do this, we glue together five pasta "shells". We get the middle of the snowflake.
We connect five pasta "shells"
Glue spirals to the edges of the middle. Glue the shells between the spirals.
Coloring our snowflake White color and sprinkle with glitter.
It remains to tie a white openwork ribbon to the snowflake. Our New Year's craft pasta - ready!
Christmas tree made of pasta with your own hands
Another great option for pasta crafts is to make a beautiful Christmas tree out of them. To do this, we twist a cone out of cardboard. We begin to glue pasta “feathers” to the cone.
We decorate the entire cone in this way.
Paint the Christmas tree green.
Decorate the ends of the pasta with glue or glitter gel. Glue decorative bells and bows. Christmas tree of pasta is ready!
Look at the video, what other pasta crafts you can do with your own hands:
Crafts from cereals have always been very popular among both adults and young inventors. And this is not surprising, because the demand for such creations is huge. It is due to the fact that cereals are affordable materials, and the process does not take much time and develops well in all directions. Let's talk about how it's done and make original pasta pictures together!
Pasta is not only a delicious side dish, but also an excellent material for creating crafts.
Pictures of pasta and their application
The resulting pictures are not just the joy of a few minutes. They can easily be used as decorative elements in the kitchen, hallway and even the living room. Or you can completely decorate a whole corner of pasta paintings and turn it into a source of pride. Pictures made from these delicious flour products have several significant advantages.
A variety of figures allows fantasy to run wild
- Ease of manufacture. After you show your baby the principle of work, he will be able to cope with the task on his own.
- Lots of unique ideas. Flowers, animals, insects, landscapes and even abstraction - all this can turn into a unique pasta painting.
- Availability. Macaroni are inexpensive and are offered in a wide range. And to diversify crafts even more, you can paint the dough in different colors.
- Uniqueness. A well-made and decorated pasta picture will be your pride.
If you want a real masterpiece to turn out of a simple idea, you should consider the basic rules for creating such paintings.
General principle of creation: a step-by-step master class
In order to get a worthy decoration of your home as a result of several hours of work and original gift, you need to prepare the following tools and materials:
- colored or plain cardboard;
- sheet of A4 paper;
- watercolor or gouache;
- pasta in assortment;
- PVA glue.
One of simple ways creating a panel
A product decorated with food grains will turn out even more interesting.
Sequencing:
- Glue cardboard and paper together. This is necessary so that the base of the picture is denser and does not bend, tear, or be damaged under the weight of the pasta. The basis for the picture can be considered ready.
- After that, a sketch is drawn on the base. It can be anything: still life, landscape, abstraction, individual objects. It is necessary to draw these patterns in order to detail the final image and make it clearer.
- Next, you need to stick pasta with PVA glue in the given order. For this purpose pasta is used. various kinds- feathers, horns, spirals, spaghetti, tubules, noodles and so on.
- After the base for further actions is ready, it is necessary to start coloring the pasta, if this is provided for by the master class. As a result, you will get a realistic beautiful picture.
Thus, the master class for creating pasta paintings is quite simple. And now it's time to learn the basic ideas for doing crafts!
Basic ideas for pasta paintings
There are a large number of pasta-based picture ideas, and you need to choose the ones that suit your personal desires and skill level. Consider a few ready-made sketches, looking at which you can do similar work.
1. Pasta flowers
Flowers are the most common elements in such paintings. You can make original rowan branches from pasta in the form of leaves and small decorative balls. To make the image complete, it is necessary to prepare a frame, bordering the leaf around the perimeter with another type of pasta. In our case, these are flower figurines.
Homemade canvas will decorate any interior
In addition, you can make unusual spikelets with daisies using such types of pasta as spirals for decorating leaves, horns for creating petals, feathers for decorating heads of ears, spaghetti for stems.
Advice! You can leave the picture in natural color, on a dark background, but it is better to paint with gouache or watercolor.
Another common option for crafts of this kind is wildflowers. It can be specific plants or imaginary, unknown flowers. To convey the whole field atmosphere and spring-summer mood, it is recommended to paint the picture in different colors - yellow, red, green, blue, providing it with an original background. The photo is one of the examples.
DIY summer landscape
2. Pasta animals in pictures
Advice! If you want to do something less complicated, but no less beautiful, you can give preference to the marine theme by making goldfish and crab.
Creating a panel is easier if you first draw a sketch
The theme of cats deserves special attention. Therefore, among the simple and extraordinary paintings, the following example can be distinguished.
Application of pre-colored spaghetti
Creative activities help children develop their imagination and fine motor skills, and at the same time strengthen social relationships when held in a group or with parents.
For a change, in addition to the classic materials of plasticine or paper, you can use others, for example, pasta. They are in every kitchen. In addition, pasta crafts look beautiful and original.
To add brightness, you can color the pasta in advance, dividing them into small piles. For each you need to take a separate color.
What to paint?
Gouache is a classic and simple solution. Any child has such paints in the arsenal. They are convenient to paint pictures, finished crafts and blanks.
Painting technology:
1 option. Required amount place the pasta in a small plastic container or bag. Combine the selected gouache color with water, then pour it in. Shake, mixing the contents, and leave to brew for 10-14 minutes. After waiting for time, drain the unnecessary liquid, remove the pasta and spread it out, let it dry.
Important! The brightness of the color depends on the amount of water. More liquid - less brightness.
Option 2. Coloring by hand. Lay out a few pasta, distributing on a sheet of plain paper. Paint them with a brush in turn. Paint without diluting with water. When finished, wait, let the products dry. Then carefully turn over and paint the bottom in the same way. If the shells are large, with holes, then you can hang them to make it more convenient to cover both sides of the product.
Food coloring is often used for creativity. It is corrosive, so put on gloves before working. The coloring technology is simple - place the pasta selected for crafts in a small unnecessary container (it’s more convenient to take a couple of bags, it’s faster to mix).
Next, you need to follow the instructions attached to the paint step by step, since it is sometimes diluted not with water, but with vinegar or ordinary alcohol. Pour the prepared solution into a container, mix well. 5-10 minutes is enough to color the pasta.
Non-standard option. Interesting, but you can color pasta with ordinary green paint. She will give them a deep shade. Dilute some greenery with water and place pasta in it. A drop will give only a slight shade.
Other non-standard materials:
- nail polish;
- acrylic paints;
- cocoa solution;
- turmeric;
- paint in cans.
The choice is large.
How to paint the finished product
It is convenient to color pasta in advance, you can immediately distribute their quantity according to the required colors. Sometimes you have to paint already finished products. For example, a basket or a house glued together from shells. The classic soaking approach will not work, it is important to handle everything carefully, while maintaining the integrity of the product.
Staining options:
- Manually. Take paints of the desired colors. Place the figure in front of you on a white sheet of A4. With brushes, carefully paint the craft. Try to work out all the details. Spaghetti is easier to paint, they are straight, without roughness and not ribbed.
- From a can. Pasta beads, where there are small holes, are more convenient to process with a spray gun, spraying paint. Such dyes smell strongly, so it is better to work in a mask on the street. To cover any, even complex, crafts from a spray can or spray gun - universal way. Paint particles fall into all the smallest holes. The finished product then looks very bright.
How and how to glue pasta in crafts
For DIY pasta crafts, you need reliable glue. It should be invisible, so white PVA is not suitable.
Types of glue:
- "Dragon", "Titan" - polymer, they are similar in properties, only different names.
- "Crystal" - thick and sticky, like "Moment", but less noticeable.
- Thermal gun - perfect for creating figures such as a hut, a teapot or a basket, it is hardly useful for postcards. Glues quickly (1-2 minutes is enough). They are convenient to use due to the shape, popular and inexpensive. Glues perfectly various materials including pasta.
Alternative options:
- PVA - white, clearly visible, sticks together for a long time;
- glue stick - cheap, but weak.
Important! More often people choose a thermal gun, but an adult should help the child work with it.
Pasta beads
How to make long multi-colored beads? The process of stringing is fascinating, the kids will definitely like it. The length can be adjusted by yourself.
What will be required:
- pasta with holes - 750 gr.;
- multi-colored dye;
- 3 bowls;
- beaker;
- medical alcohol;
- baking sheet or large flat plate;
- wax paper;
- a spoon;
- threads;
- scissors;
- adhesive tape.
Work process:
- Divide the pasta among three small bowls, dividing them evenly.
- Add 2-3 drops of different dyes to each. Pour in water, add ¼ tablespoon of alcohol.
- Stir the contents of the bowls until the vermicelli is fully colored.
- Drain excess liquid and spread pasta on a plate or baking sheet to dry.
- Measure out enough thread for beads or a bracelet. Tie off the end and wrap your finger with a piece of duct tape. String multi-colored vermicelli alternately until the entire thread is full. When finished, connect the ends of the thread with a simple knot.
The beads are ready.
Panel and picture of pasta
It is not difficult to create a variety of paintings from pasta at home with your own hands. The child will also cope, adults only need to guide and prompt.
What will be required:
- vermicelli;
- thick cardboard;
- figure templates;
- scissors;
- PVA glue;
- paints;
- tassel.
Operating procedure:
- Ready-made images of a bird, a smeshariki or other fairy-tale character, download or copy from the screen.
- Cut out the outlines of the figure, then carefully glue it to the base - a sheet of thick cardboard.
- With a brush, evenly distribute a thin layer of PVA over it.
- Vermicelli emphasize the details of the picture - the fur of a lamb, the mane of a lion, the face of a smeshariki or the wings of a bird. So the craft acquires volume and originality.
Important! For convenience, the noodles can be pre-colored and glued already colored.
Frame pasting
Flour products are found various forms so they can be used anywhere. For example, glue a simple wooden frame. Small pasta bows or leaves give it charm and originality. You need to glue by the piece with a glue gun. For convenience, paint the pasta in advance.
Vase decor with pasta
Do you have an old vase at home, or do you want to create your own from simple materials at hand? Great, why not use a variety of pasta.
What will be required:
- curly vermicelli;
- decorative accessories (multi-colored ribbons, twine, beads);
- container - base (small plastic bottle);
- spray paint;
- glue gun.
Operating procedure:
- Think over the composition that you want to depict on the surface of the vase. Beautiful flower, animal figurines or something else.
- Foundation formation. Take a small bottle, coat it with glue and tie it evenly with ribbons.
- Glue pasta and jewelry pieces to the finished base one by one, creating the intended pattern.
- Use plastic stacks or an unnecessary rag to remove glue residue in a timely manner. When finished decorating, spray it with paint.
- From small scallops or cute bows, flowers are collected by attaching them to a tied twine.
Tip: instead of a bottle, take a jar or other unnecessary container.
Architectural masterpieces from pasta
It's amazing how many pictures and various figures can be created from ordinary flour products!
Basic materials - vermicelli, glue gun, original idea and hard work.
- a fabulous hut with a small courtyard, surrounded by a fence with turrets;
- a temple with a dome and a cross;
- Faberge egg;
- old castle.
As you can see, the possibilities are only limited by your own imagination. Of course, sometimes, in addition to labor and improvised materials, you need a plan and knowledge of mathematics, but pictures of most architectural masterpieces are available online.
Pasta crafts for kids
Children are interested in fairy-tale characters, animal figures. Home creativity develops imagination, fine motor skills, perseverance and attention. It’s worth starting with small, child-friendly images, while explaining the details.
Pasta Hedgehog
The idea is simple, anyone can make a hedgehog, even quite Small child. A great way to distract a prankster while mom sorts out the kitchen.
What will be required:
- a piece of dough;
- pasta;
- paper.
Operating procedure:
- Blind a figure of a sitting hedgehog from a piece of ordinary dough. His back is clean.
- Place the craft on an A4 sheet, give the child a handful of short spaghetti and tell me how to decorate the back with them.
- For the eyes, you can take raisins or buckwheat.
craft owl
The volumetric figure is created from several types of pasta.
What will be required:
- large shells (base-torso);
- bow (will be ears and tail);
- 2 snails (large owl eyes);
- small shells (sharp beak, paws), large (2 wings).
Operating procedure:
- Place a large shell vertically in front of you. Break the bow in half with your hands, glue one half on top, on the head. The second - from below, forming a tail.
- Glue two small snails - the eyes of an owl.
- Take three small shells, attach one between the snails - the beak, the rest below the tail - paws.
- Glue large shell-wings tightly on the edge on the sides.
- Color the owl. It can easily be turned into an owl if you use a different color. For example, look at photos of birds on the net.
snail craft
It is easy to make, all materials are available.
What will be required:
- large shell;
- plasticine;
- toothpicks;
- stand.
Operating procedure:
- From plasticine, first blind the sausage - the body of the future snail. The edge gently bend up, forming a head.
- Add large shells with plasticine patterns to make the snail's house bright and beautiful.
- Break the toothpick, make a couple of small horns out of it. Attach plasticine rounds to the ends. Blind eyes and smiling mouth.
- Stand - green leaf, cut out of colored cardboard. Remember, one snail is bored, make her girlfriends!
Autumn crafts from pasta - bows
Autumn is a golden time for harvesting and writing romantic poems. It's time for abundance. What craft can express this? For example, a basket full of harvested fruits!
What will be required:
- "scallops";
- "bows";
- plastic bowl;
- glue gun;
- wire cutters;
- masking tape;
- spray paint;
- basket filling.
Operating procedure:
- Pour out the scallops and glue them alternately with a gun to the sides and bottom of the base bowl. Try to stick tighter.
- A pen. Using a heat gun, connect several scallops with the tips together, forming a semicircle. Wait for it to dry, then glue the finished handle to the basket.
- Decorate the edges and sides with bows.
- Once you've finished your basket, paint it with gold, brown, or silver spray paint.
- Wait for it to dry. Fill the finished basket with the gifts of autumn!
Winter pasta crafts
In winter, the main idea for creativity is New Year. I want to complement the interior with original decorations, make cute gifts.
Christmas wreath
Instead of spruce or fir branches, there will be pasta of various shapes.
What will be required:
- foam hoop base;
- glue gun;
- curly shells;
- tapes;
- paints;
From pasta, you can not only cook, but also make original products. There are many ideas for which you can spend interesting time. There are many photos of pasta crafts on the Internet. The main thing is to follow the instructions to achieve a good result.
Pros of using pasta
- Not a high price.
- Variety of forms.
- Easy to paint.
- Glue quickly.
- Stored for a long time.
DIY pasta crafts can be different:
- Paintings.
- Vases and cups.
- Flowers, trees.
- Animals.
- Souvenirs.
Pasta crafts for kids
To work with children, you need to choose easy jobs. If the child does not succeed in the work, he will lose interest. From the simplest options, you can select vases, beads for mom, paintings, animals.
Fairy hedgehog
You will need plasticine, long pasta: spaghetti or spirals.
We make the body from plasticine. We roll the ball and pull out the muzzle on one side. The eyes are also made of plasticine or beads. Next, we make a “hairstyle” for the hedgehog. Pasta is inserted into the body so that it holds well.
So that the hedgehog is not bored, it can be placed on a maple or grape leaf.
Cups and vases
For the manufacture of volumetric elements of dishes, round pasta in the form of a wheel is used. The saucer or cup on the outside must be wrapped plastic bag, foil or cling film so that the product is easily removed from the mold. Using PVA glue, glue the pasta together on the base. Leave until completely dry, remove from the mold.
You can decorate with decorative elements, paint. According to this scheme, vases, plates, chests are made.
Wood
Not very difficult to make. You will need a stand or a pot for a tree, spiral pasta, a ball-shaped base on which we will place pasta. For children, it is easier to cope with plasticine. Make a medium-sized ball, attach details on it to keep well. As a trunk, you can take a real branch. Combined with cones.
Paint, use different colors, at your discretion.
Angels
Small size can decorate Christmas tree. For manufacturing, you will need glue, pasta: wheels, small and large tubes, bows, a small ball. The ball will serve as the head of an angel, place it on a large pasta-tube, which serves as the body, fasten it with a wheel, it is a collar.
We make curls from small tubes. We make wings from pasta-bows. Handles are made from thin curved flour products. Decorate with paint, it is better to use a spray can.
Crafts from pasta in kindergarten
To get acquainted with this technique, a rainbow is suitable for kids. You can use different shapes of pasta. They are glued to cardboard in a semicircle. Paints are painted in the colors of the rainbow. Very easy and quick craft.
Beads for mom
Use long and curly pasta. In turn, strung on a wire. Then you can decorate with different shades.
The picture will please mom on March 8. Used as a decorative element. This product has several advantages:
- Simple manufacturing. The child will do the work himself.
- Variety of ideas. You can depict anything: flowers, animals, landscapes, abstractions.
- Availability.
- Uniqueness.
When creating a picture, a child can draw an outline of the picture with a pencil on a piece of cardboard, and he himself can glue the pasta of his choice.
Perfectly combines different cereals with pasta. They are used for decorative panels. Take cardboard of any shape as a basis. Performed in the form of abstraction, used as much as possible more species pasta and cereals, can be painted with paint.
DIY pasta crafts for Easter
For this holiday, children can make an Easter egg or a basket.
Master class Easter egg with pasta
For the product you need glue, balloon, pasta different forms: bows, turtles, spiral. For a golden color, you need paint.
Inflate a balloon of the size that the egg should be in the end. Attach pasta with glue to the ball, but not to the very end. Dry well, when the frame becomes strong, pierce the ball. Continue shaping the egg. Drawing, you can choose any.
At the end, cover with paint, for older people use aerosol. To prevent the egg from rolling, make a stand. An Easter basket is made in a similar way.
Using all your imagination, you can embody many ideas with the help of pasta, both as the main material and as an additional decor. This activity diversifies creative process children, the smallest kids in kindergarten can handle it
Photo crafts from pasta
