Go ahead and eat all the pasta you like this month! October is National Pasta Month, and I’m pretty sure I read somewhere that any pasta you eat during the month is calorie free. Or did I just wish for that? Hmmmm, I’ll let you decide! 🙂
I’m wondering who has a favorite pasta craft or center to share! Anyone?
Ciao!
Diane
I use pasta with some soil and glue to create dinosaur fossils.
Pasta makes great punctuation marks.
I love to dye pasta! Just pour rubbing alcohol into a large zip lock bag. add food coloring until you get the shade you want. add pasta and let soak until you like the color. let pasta dry on waxed paper.
I dye the pasta all different kinds and let the kids collage with it. They are very inventive with it.
For the life cycle of a butterfly, I use orzo pasta for the eggs, rotini for the caterpillar, shell pasta for the chrysalis, and Farfalle (bowtie) for the butterfly!
I like to have students color pasta and make necklace patterns.
I have also used pasta for the life cycle of a butterfly.
I love it when you use pasta for a Christmas decoration and then let the kids paint it silver or gold, it’s so classy!
I love to use pasta to make patterns (we dye it different colors first). I also use it for butterfly life cycle. I saw on-line where someone cooked it and added dye to the water and then used it to make letters and numbers (with the limp pasta) – it was so cute! 🙂
I use pasta to count by twos The students glue them down in twos and then write the number underneath the noodles. They love it!
Butterfly Life cycle!
spiral pasta-caterpilllar
shell pasta-chrysalis
bow tie pasta-butterfly
small pasta representing an egg
I have used pasta for lots of things. I have usedit in the sensory table, to make patterns, necklaces, for counting, to make shapes (spagetti), to make pictures, and I made the pasta easter egg from your website last year and the kids loved it!
I use a variety of pasta (spaghetti, twist, wheel, rice) to decorate Egyptian collars and bracelets on paper plates or card stock and then paint them gold. They are very beautiful.
We’ve had a mixture of pasta of all types and beans of all types in our sensory tub all month, and this week, we glued various types of pasta onto black paper to create skeletons. The children learned about the shapes of our different bones and then made their own. We also use pasta to glue patterns on sentence strips throughout the year, glue it onto three crossed wood sticks and paint for snowflakes in winter. For letter T, we’ll be gluing pasta on the top of the lids from those metal tins of gourmet coffees, then painting them gold or silver for “treasure boxes”.