I am in love with making these ornaments out of dry pasta. Some of my favourite pasta shapes to create with are penne and rotelle, but any variety can be used. Go ahead and experiment!
Total Time: 90 minutes
Yield: 3 ornaments
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You can get dozens of different shapes of pasta at the Bulk Barn quite cheaply. Make a kid safe glue from flour and water, and let the kids go nuts with gluing ornaments together. They can, of course, also add shells and anything interesting.
The best fisnish for pasta ornaments is spray or dip in chrome, silver color or bright zink paint, then when that is good and dry, a light coat of Candy Apple spray paint.
Candy Apple can be faked by mixing clear acrylic varnish with a bit of wine red acrylyc paint.
That makes the project washable.
Have FUN!
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Love the idea with the kid safe glue!
This so ingenious, clever, neat, imaginative, nifty, etc that I will just have to introduce this idea to my "happy" group as I feel sure they will love it.
Thank you!!! I hope the group loves it, too! Hugs!
In all the time I have been on this site I have never said anything negative, but I must voice my opinion here.
The pasta ornaments are beautiful , but I have an issue using food for this when there is so much hunger in the world. I have worked with homeless people and I saw that even people who are dressed fairly well could be food insufficient or worse. Perhaps you could substitute plastic pieces or beads for the pasta.
No school or organization I have ever worked in allowed food to be used in art projects for this reason.
Really? All my first crafts as a child were all macaroni/rice/flour based :) I thought that was quite common around the world.
I donate to charities that serve the underprivileged but I don't give out handfuls of pasta that I already have in my house. I think as a homemade craft, using some dry pasta is sometimes better than opting for plastics, especially with today's problem with plastics washing up on shores in third world countries. I don't see a harm in using these guys! :)
Just my opinion. I am happy you shared your view on this!
I see nothing wrong with using food in art. In fact I think natural ingredients used as your medium is preferable to using plastics or other carbon based products which contribute to global warming. Im sorry but to suggest your fantastic art is contributing to world hunger is irresponsible when far more damage is done by not using biodegradable products. I applaud your use of pasta.
Thank you! I think it's just fine to use food for crafts, too. I found a bag of peculiar random mixed pastas and beans sitting separately in my cupboard and thought some would work great for crafts. The beans are coming up in a future craft! Even if they were fresh, I probably would have just eaten it anyway. I don't really have the means to go and buy plastics and beads from the craft shop every time I want to get creative. My thoughts are constantly on global warming, too. Whatever I can do to help make things more biodegradable, the better. Plus, I love how these turned out and that alone rocks my world! Happy holidays!
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