Connecting elements of pasta
The most successful option for joining pasta is, of course, gluing. Do-it-yourselfers suggest using either PVA glue or the deservedly popular hot-melt adhesive in the form of a glue gun. It is worth saying that both of these methods have disadvantages: in the case of PVA, it will take a longer time for gluing the elements and not a very strong connection that can break if the craft is twirled in your hands; Hot-melt adhesive requires some skill, as it sets very quickly - first practice quickly and accurately connecting the necessary elements. The advantage of PVA is considered to be cleaner work, without visible drops and sagging of glue. The best option for you will naturally be determined with time and experience.
This is an important, somewhat frightening process for many at first, which, in reality, is not anything complicated. In principle, you can paint a finished product, or you can assemble it from already multi-colored elements. It is best to combine both approaches to achieve the best result.
Unusual ones are becoming more and more popular due to their simplicity and beauty. They make paintings, boxes, vases, snowflakes, people, houses, appliqués, and interesting pasta crafts for children.
It is very interesting and exciting not only for children, teachers, but also for parents to engage in such developmental activities with children. And by the hour, mom herself gets very interested in this kind of creativity and creates real masterpieces.
When choosing what to start doing using pasta, you must, of course, first focus on the age of the child. The youngest can make crafts more simply, preschool children are a little more complex, and children aged 12 can create entire compositions, flowers, bouquets, vases, Christmas trees, decorations, toys and more on their own.
Children can make crafts from pasta by several people at the same time. For example, several children made this picture at once.
Children can come up with the plot of the picture themselves, colors, shapes - it’s all their imagination! Children will come up with and make various interesting pasta crafts with their own hands.
For unique and beautiful products for activities with children, you need pasta with beautiful shapes: feathers, wheels, spaghetti, paint and glue. You can use other additional materials for the painting.
Here's the idea of creating an almost real railroad - a steam locomotive with carriages and trees for the game.
Using dry pasta or vermicelli, you can come up with ideas for paintings or applications for children. The picture itself can be done on plain paper, or it can be decorated with a beautiful frame.
A wonderful butterfly painted with shell paint. You can use thin spaghetti for the antennae, and make the body of the butterfly using spiral noodles.
A child will be happy to decorate such a product with a brush and paints, glue it and see what he can do.
Another real painting in which pasta, paper, and cereals are used. Everything is held together by glue.
An idea on how to make a toy using pasta. Angel doll. Such a beauty can be played in games, made into a resident of a dollhouse, or hung on a Christmas tree for the New Year holidays.
With children as young as one year old, you can even create jewelry in the form of beads. Pasta beads are a wonderful educational activity for kids. It consists in the fact that the child learns to manipulate a string, a ribbon, trying to string “beads”.
Older children can color different shaped beads and put them together on a ribbon, creating a beautiful decoration that girls can use to decorate dolls or even themselves.
You can use any shape of pasta to create beads. You can connect them together using knots or simply stringing identical tubular pasta, for example, in a row.
Involve children in creativity and create beautiful things.
If you want to surprise your child or just want to decorate your room, you don’t have to use standard options - plasticine, natural materials or embroidery.
Products made from ordinary pasta will look original. This is a simple and not very labor-intensive way of decorating. Our pasta crafts master classes will help you cope with the task in the best possible way.
Decorative cup
A cup made from pasta can be used for decoration, as well as as a craft for kindergarten. Use just a little imagination and be patient, and as a result you will have a joint activity with your child. To understand how to make a cup with your own hands, you can see a detailed description with step-by-step instructions in our master class for beginners.
You will need:
- Pasta,
- Cup,
- cling film,
- PVA glue,
- Paints.
Progress:
- We wrap the cup with cling film so that its edges are folded inside the cup.
- Apply glue to the bottom of the cup and begin to place flour products on the glue, not forgetting to put some space between them.
- When the bottom is ready, we begin to cover the sides of the cup with flour figures from the bottom. This way you need to cover the entire cup, leaving only the handle.
- We wait several hours until the glue dries completely.
- Take the cup out of our blank and continue gluing the pasta to the place where the handle was.
- Next, from the same material at hand we make a handle for our craft.
- You can glue small flour figures in the form of shells or circles to the top edge to make the edge of the cup look smoother.
- When the product is completely dry, you need to paint the entire cup with white paint and the edges with silver.
- Using small pasta, you can make a decoration for our cup in the form of a snowflake or a star, and paint it in silver. Our cup is ready!
Video: master class on making a cup of pasta with your own hands
Original Christmas tree
On New Year's Eve, we all decorate our home, and handmade crafts bring a special atmosphere and comfort to the room. And one of these decorations can be a beautiful Christmas tree made of pasta. You can make it together with your child and bring comfort to your home. To do this, we recommend viewing our step-by-step master class for beginners.
You will need:
- Pasta (bows, stars),
- Cardboard,
- Scissors,
- Disposable wine glass,
- glue gun,
- Aerosol paint green and gold.
Progress:
- We remove the stem from the wine glass and begin to paste it with pasta - bows from the wide part, moving upward. Glue the bows vertically.
- As you get closer to the top, start gluing half a bow on so that the tree has a natural taper towards the top.
- Take two stems from the wine glasses and glue them together so that the wide parts are on the outside.
- Now glue our leg to the Christmas tree using glue.
- Paint the craft with green paint.
- Paint the star-shaped pasta golden and, when the paint dries, decorate the Christmas tree with these “toys.”
- In order to decorate the top of the Christmas tree, you need to glue several flour figures together to make a star. Glue it to the top of your head. We got a very elegant and beautiful Christmas tree!
Photos of pasta crafts
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Decorative basket for candies
You can surprise with your handicrafts by presenting sweets for tea in a beautiful pasta basket. Making such a craft is very simple, you just need a little patience, and the result will please you. This basket is suitable for children 5, 6, 7, 8 years old. Let's move on to the master class for beginners with detailed instructions, as well as photos and videos.
You will need:
- Pasta (wheels, shells, leaves, spirals),
- Aerosol paint,
- PVA glue,
- Balloon,
- Felt pen.
Progress:
- Inflate a medium-sized balloon to keep the basket neat.
- Use a felt-tip pen to mark a horizontal line - this will be the edge of the basket.
- Apply glue, starting from the very bottom (bottom) to glue pasta in the form of wheels, and continue gluing to the marked line.
- Next, we make the handle of the basket from flour figurines in the form of leaves. Glue them in two rows slightly at an angle from each other.
- We wait until the glue dries completely, then pop the ball and get an almost finished craft that needs to be decorated.
- Decorate with shell-shaped pasta along the top edge of the basket and on the top of the handle.
- At the junction of the base of the basket and the handle we glue a round flour figure, and along the edges of it - spirals. This composition will resemble the sun.
- When everything is dry, we start painting. Cover the basket completely with blue paint, and paint the decorative details (shells and sun) in silver. This will make your vase look more impressive.
Video: master class on making a pasta basket with your own hands
If you don't like pasta, you don't have to cook it: there are many interesting ideas that will help you while away a fun evening, and pasta is on the agenda. Photos of crafts are so diverse that it is difficult to settle on one idea. And there’s no need to stop – let’s look at everything in order.
Interesting and funny photo frame
If you paint unusually shaped pasta, it will turn into an excellent decor for a photo frame. You can use spray paint or food paint as a dye. Using paint from a can is much easier and faster, but food paints are much cheaper, although you will have to tinker with them longer.
You will need:
- picture frame;
- unusually shaped pasta;
- dye;
- glue gun and glue sticks;
- clear nail polish.
How to make a photo frame:
- Color the pasta in advance and let it dry completely.
- Free the photo frame from glass and other unnecessary parts.
- Heat up your glue gun and glue the pasta to the frame.
- After 24 hours, coat the decorated photo frame with a layer of clear varnish.
When the varnish is dry, you can insert the selected photo into the frame.