Making crafts with your own hands is a rather exciting process, which gives you the opportunity to make something beautiful with minimal cost. Crafts from pasta are a great way to create elegant decorative compositions, jewelry, and also an opportunity to have a great time with your family, which will bring great pleasure to the kids. In this article we will look at decorative crafts from pasta of varying complexity, children's products, as well as ways to create New Year's decorations.
Getting ready to work with pasta
First of all, it is necessary to prepare the material and means for gluing and painting the products. If you plan to make spherical products, you will need a balloon, and for some voluminous crafts, such as a Christmas tree, you need to prepare cardboard and scissors. The advantage of crafts made from pasta is their low cost, since the material is quite inexpensive, and you can buy pasta of various shapes in any store.
The best glue option is a silicone-filled hot glue gun, which is sold in craft stores. It provides reliable, long-lasting bonding. Since the drop from the gun comes out quite large for small pasta, it is simply blown out first onto the cardboard, and then applied to the parts with a toothpick. But you need to take into account that drops of glue harden very quickly, so first it’s better to practice folding the form without it and, when everything works out quickly, start gluing. In addition to the gun, you can also use PVA glue, which we all know, but it will not ensure the reliability of the product - any push can cause the craft to fall apart.
You can paint pasta in different ways - before gluing or after. If you decide to make a large colorful craft, such as a vase, you can color the macarons in advance using Easter egg food coloring. It is diluted in water, as stated in the instructions (you must add vinegar, which fixes the color), put a batch of pasta in it, stir until color is obtained and lay out to dry. You can paint the pasta after gluing it using a brush and acrylic paints or a graffiti spray.
Decorative pasta products
Various decorative elements help to significantly transform the interior and add some uniqueness to it. Since we don’t always have enough money to buy expensive decorations, we suggest you familiarize yourself with how you can make them yourself from simple pasta.
Tea-set
A tea or coffee set is a magnificent decoration for the kitchen or living room, which will fill the atmosphere with the special comfort of home warmth. Made with your own hands, it will also become the real pride of the owners of the home and will certainly cause considerable surprise among the guests. Since such a craft will require the manufacture of several elements at once, it will take a lot of time and painstaking work, but the result will be excellent.
So, the first step is to form a tray. To do this, you need to take cardboard and give it the desired shape at your personal discretion (rectangular, round). Next, we lay out and glue the edges of identical flat pasta throughout the entire shape, and along the edges we form an additional border with shells. Next, we make the details of the service as follows:
1. Kettle. To form it, you will need a balloon, which must be inflated to the desired size, but not too much, so that when it bursts, the structure will not be damaged. Glue the pasta together along the entire surface, leaving a couple of centimeters on top for the lid. It is better to use pasta gears (wheels) that can fit tightly together. When the structure is thoroughly dry, we pierce the ball and remove it. You can glue a stand to the bottom for stability, as shown in the photo.
2. Cover. To form a lid, you again need to inflate an elongated ball and cover a small fragment with wheels. We remove the ball and use two shaped pasta to glue the handle, and decorate the edges with spiral pasta or shells.
3. Saucer and cup. Here you will need a real saucer, covered with foil on top. As in the case of the ball, the pasta should be glued together in the shape of a saucer, and the contours should be decorated with shells. The cup is formed in a similar way.
When the parts are formed, you need to glue additional elements to them - a handle to the cup, and a spout to the teapot. We wait until the craft is completely dry and start painting. It is better to decorate the service in one color, for example, white or silver. In this way we will get a magnificent product that can become a room decoration or a worthy gift.
Pasta panel
To make such a decorative decoration as a pasta panel, you will need a photo frame. First you need to sketch a sketch of the future picture on a cardboard surface and select the necessary shapes of pasta. From spaghetti you can make rays of the sun, plant stems, and “bows” can turn into cornflower petals or butterfly wings. It is better to paint them in advance, since then it will be difficult to paint each element without staining the substrate and adjacent parts.
Sometimes in the creation of three-dimensional paintings, in addition to pasta, other elements are involved - cereals, coffee beans, etc. When the drawing is ready and the material has been collected, it is glued to a cardboard base, forming a picture. A child can do this kind of work, but instead of glue, you can use plasticine.
Jars of colored pasta
The simplest type of pasta crafts. Such jars will become an unusually original decoration for the kitchen, and they are quite simple to make. You need to select several small jars (preferably different shapes), wash and dry. It is better to choose pasta with different shapes. They need to be painted in different colors with food coloring, as we described at the beginning of the article, dried thoroughly and placed in jars. In this case, you can make one color that best suits the kitchen interior the dominant one so that the decoration looks harmonious. It is better to cover the lids with pieces of burlap and tie them with thick thread.
Children's crafts from pasta
Making products with your own hands is very useful and interesting for children, who acquire many skills while working. This type of creativity develops imagination, improves motor skills, perseverance, and the ability to finish something started and get an excellent result. In addition, this is a great way to spend leisure time together. Children's crafts will be simple to give your child the opportunity to work on their own.
Jewelry for girls
A simple craft that a child can do on their own. To do this, you need to select products of the desired shape, paint them and dry them. Next, take a strong thread or fishing line with a needle and string each part one by one. Beads can be made multi-colored or plain. Any fashionista will love this decoration. In the same way, it’s easy to form a bracelet - then you’ll get a complete set.
Using butterfly pasta, you can make many original hairpins and rings, decorating them in bright colors and patterns. Here you will need the help of your parents, since you need to glue it with a hot gun.
Applications
This is a fairly popular type of children's creativity, which is often used in kindergartens. Depending on the age of the child, you can choose an application of varying complexity so that the child does most of the work independently. For example, make funny sheep, as shown in the photo. To do this, you need to cut out the bodies from white paper (the sketch can be drawn by the parents), stick them on cardboard, and add volume using pasta.
Subjects can be very diverse - animals, flowers, water world, etc. At the same time, they should be colorful and varied. To make it easier for your child to work, you can apply a layer of plasticine onto the cardboard, onto which the details of the picture will be molded.
DIY Christmas crafts from pasta
You can make a wide variety of Christmas decorations using spaghetti and pasta in various shapes. Most often, aerosol paints such as bronze, gilding, and silver are used to paint them, which will give the product an unusually beautiful and solemn look. You can also use snow-white paint, reminiscent of a snowy winter.
Pasta ball for Christmas tree
New Year's balls are the most popular Christmas tree decoration. To make it yourself from pasta, you will need a regular inflatable balloon or a round blank, which you can buy at a craft store. If you choose the second option, things will go much faster. The surface of the workpiece is simply pasted over with pasta and then painted (do not forget to first make a loop by which the toy will be hung on a branch).
If you choose the manufacturing method using a ball, you need to inflate it and secure it with thread. Then we begin to carefully glue the pasta. Here you need to take into account an important point - parts cannot be glued directly to the rubber surface; all elements are carefully glued together. It is better to give preference to small pasta, which is more convenient to paste over a round surface. When the New Year's ball is formed, you need to pierce the rubber mold, deflate it and carefully remove it. Next, glue the thread to the ball and color it.
Christmas tree
To make a small but very beautiful Christmas tree, you will need thick paper or cardboard from which a cone base is formed. Next we select the material. As shown in the photo, a Christmas tree can be made from different shapes of pasta.
The easiest way is to use spaghetti, but in this case the volume will not be obtained. If you want to get a fluffy beauty, you can take bows, feathers and other types. Since the tree will be the same color, it is better to paint the pasta in advance. We simply glue the prepared material to the base in tiers using a glue gun (PVA glue will not work here). The finished Christmas tree can be supplemented with beads, beads, rain and other decorations.
Christmas angels
To make cute angels for the Christmas tree, we will need the following parts: a small ball-head (you can buy a foam blank), large pasta-tubes (torso), small ones for hair, wheels (collars), horns (handles), bows (wings). We glue all the parts one by one, starting with the head and torso. When the figurine is ready, you can draw the facial features and decorate the body-mantle with pasta stars. Before styling your hair, don’t forget to glue the loop.
DIY pasta crafts – photos and ideas
Finally, we suggest visiting our photo gallery. Here we tried to collect a wide variety of examples of beautiful products made from pasta. The review will give you the opportunity to get a better understanding of such crafts and make your own masterpiece. Enjoy watching!
Even the youngest creativity lovers can make crafts from pasta with their own hands. Often it is pasta that becomes one of the first materials that children master 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 the work and observe the process, which children usually cope with on their own.
The simplest pasta crafts for children are appliques using a key element made from a template. For example, if you glue the face of a lion to a sheet of paper in advance, all that remains is to lay out its mane with long pasta.
To glue 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 leaf from chenille wire, and turn the pasta into petals.
If you pre-color the pasta, the scope for creativity will become even wider.
So, a few colored macarons and an ice cream stick painted with bright flowers can easily turn into an elegant dragonfly.
Very interesting applications are made from colored pasta.
You can use green pasta to decorate a beautiful Christmas tree.
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 bright butterflies and grass.
The image of the butterflies will be completed by antennae drawn with a felt-tip pen and the bright trajectories of their flight.
The “horns” pasta makes very beautiful scales for fish.
Pasta applique “Fish”
“Little shells” pasta produces surprisingly touching leaves.
Pasta applique “Autumn tree”
If you boil the pasta, then you can create a real edible applique from it and other products!
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”
Cut and colored pasta can make an amazing mosaic. As a basis, we can take any modeling mass that tends to harden in air. By pressing the pasta, we create any desired pattern or image.
Even our youngest student can create a mosaic of pasta “Flowers”.
You can create a larger flower. By laying out colored pasta you can create more complex images.
Mosaic "flower"
You can make stunning tender calla lilies from pasta.
Such simple ideas will help children take a fresh look at the usual pasta and will certainly become the basis for creating unique, inimitable, children's masterpieces.
DIY Easter basket made from pasta
To make a basket, we need to inflate a small balloon and draw a circle on it with a marker.
Glue the pasta onto the glue, pressing them tightly together.
In this way, we paste the entire ball with pasta except for the area indicated by the circle. We pierce and deflate the balloon.
Let's paint our basket.
Decorate the hole with pasta of a different shape.
Easter pasta basket - ready!
DIY Easter egg from pasta
Snowflake from pasta (option 1)
You can use pasta to create a beautiful New Year's decoration "Snowflake". Creating a craft is possible if you have different types of pasta: spaghetti, “spirals”, “bows”, “rounded bows”.
Break the spaghetti into two parts and place 3-4 pasta pieces into piles. We will need to glue the spaghetti together. A “rounded bow” is glued to the end of the glued spaghetti.
Cut out the base for the snowflake from paper.
We fix the glued pasta on a paper base. Decorate the paper base with bow pasta.
Glue the “bows”
We decorate the rays of the snowflake with “rounded bow” pasta and place them on the bows inside the snowflakes. Color the snowflake in frosty colors. Our beautiful snowflake is ready!
Snowflake from pasta (option 2)
You can make a slightly different snowflake from pasta. To do this, glue together five pasta “shells”. We will get the middle of the snowflake.
Connecting five “shell” pasta
Glue the spirals to the edges of the center. We glue shells between the spirals.
We paint our snowflake white and sprinkle it with sparkles.
All that remains is to tie a white openwork ribbon to the snowflake. Our New Year's pasta craft is ready!
DIY pasta Christmas tree
Another wonderful option for crafts from pasta is to make a beautiful New Year tree out of it. To do this, roll a cone out of cardboard. We begin to glue the “feather” pasta to the cone.
We decorate the entire cone in this way.
Paint the Christmas tree with green paint.
Decorate the ends of the pasta with glue or glitter gel. Glue on decorative bells and bows. The pasta Christmas tree is ready!
You can make a very delicate wreath from colored pasta.
Look at the video to see what other pasta crafts you can make with your own hands:
DIY pasta crafts reviews:
The pasta Christmas tree turned out very beautiful)) (Sonya R)
Pasta can be used to create real masterpieces. For crafts you will need a variety of pasta: shells, stars, spaghetti, wheels, noodles, etc. Modern industry produces a large number of varieties of pasta, thanks to which you can create excellent crafts.
DIY pasta applications for children
The simplest thing is application. This craft can be easily done with a 2-3 year old child. Draw a blank on a piece of paper or cardboard, and then place the pasta on the drawn objects. After drying, the picture can be painted. To glue pasta, PVA glue is usually used.
Macaroni beads with children
Another option is stringing beads. For this craft we will need pasta wheels or pasta in the form of tubes.
To begin with, the pasta needs to be coated with paint, preferably gouache - it gives a good color, is non-toxic and the child will be able to paint the pasta himself.
When the blanks have dried, you can begin assembling the beads or bracelet. To do this you will need an elastic band or strong thread. A small child can string beads with the thread itself; older children can be allowed to do this with a needle. You can collect beads in a variety of sequences, which will allow you to end up with different patterns each time.
You can prepare several jars and ask your child to sort pasta of different colors. For example, red ones in one jar, and green ones in another. This is also a very useful activity for developing fine motor skills and intelligence.
DIY pasta craft "Piglet"
You can make a wonderful three-dimensional “Piglet” craft from pasta wheels. The craft is quite easy to do with children 5-6 years old, in several stages. We will need a balloon, pasta wheels, PVA glue, gold or pink spray paint, black buttons for the eyes.
First, inflate the balloon to the desired size. Older children can do this themselves. Then we gradually cover it with PVA glue and lay the pasta on top. After about a day, when the craft is completely dry, you need to burst the ball and remove it through the existing holes. From pasta of the same variety, legs, ears and a snout should be prepared in advance. Glue to the craft. When the entire craft has dried and acquired its final appearance, it should be coated with spray paint. What you need is a spray, since only a spray can paint the pasta on all sides. The paint should be applied in a well-ventilated area or, preferably, outside, since the paint fumes are quite toxic; it would be better if the adults themselves apply the paint to the piglet. After the paint has dried, glue the eyes to the desired location. A wonderful pasta craft is ready!
The “Basket” pasta craft is made using the same principle. Watch the video below:
Games with pasta for children
1 Using pasta you can teach your child to count. For example, ask him to give two red pasta and three blue. Then ask them to count how much pasta there is in total.
2 You can also make a kind of sorter for different types of pasta. Give your baby several glasses of different colors and 10 pieces of pasta of different varieties. Ask your child to sort the pasta into different cups. Kids love these types of games.
3 Older children can be asked to paint bow pasta, which can then be used for other crafts.
You can come up with many other activities with such materials, the main thing is not to be afraid to experiment and fantasize.
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.
How to use the material
Pasta is used both for decorative decoration of crafts and for creating three-dimensional images. The material is distinguished by its properties, which make it very easy to work with:
- high strength;
- variety of shapes and sizes - spirals, shells, bows, etc. are on sale;
- excellent fixation qualities - pasta is attached to the base or to each other, ensuring the reliability of a wide variety of voluminous objects.
To create a craft and fasten individual structural elements, you need to use glue. Regular PVA will do and is safe enough for a child. If you plan to create a three-dimensional structure, then you need to attach the pasta “shells” to each other. And when decorating, gluing to the base is required.
In the photo of pasta crafts you can see the most unusual models. However, their design requires coloring, because usually the material has no color.
There are, of course, multi-colored figures, but they are expensive. For painting use acrylic paint or waterproof dyes.
To give the desired color to the material, you should dilute the dye in the required concentration in a disposable plate or in a special thermal bag. Aerosol paint in cans will help you create a masterpiece. It is convenient to use, spraying it on an already made craft.
Original ideas for creativity
A child should be involved in needlework at an early age. However, children 3-5 years old will not be able to build a serious picture or structure right away. Therefore, it is recommended to start with simple pasta crafts for children with our description.
Beads
You need to take a regular sheet of A4 paper and scatter feather-shaped pasta on it. Using a brush and paint, they are painted in different colors.
After the material has dried, it must be strung on a strong thread. It is not necessary to use pasta of the same type - combined models from elements of different appearance will look original.
Panel
An original figure is cut out of cardboard, for example some kind of fruit or an ordinary saucer. You can use a regular CD.
The base is covered with colored paper, and a layer of glue is applied on top. Pasta is placed on it in different orders. After they are fixed, the surface must be painted in the original color.
Vase
If you want to know what kind of pasta craft you can make with your own hands so that it also brings benefits, it is advisable to use this advice.
You will need a glass bottle or jar of an original shape. The surface is covered with glue, onto which pasta and various beads are fixed. Using spray paint, the vase is painted in the selected color.
You can take a stable plastic cup and perform similar manipulations with it. Makes a beautiful stand for pens and pencils.
Photo frame
You need to take a sheet of cardboard. Along the edges of the sheet, pasta is attached to glue and painted with spray paint. After complete drying, you need to fix the selected photo in the center, and on the back - the leg for stability.
How to create a complex design
Adults and older children will be able to cope with complex designs that require spatial thinking and perseverance. We offer detailed instructions on how to make pasta crafts.
Wreath for the New Year
This product is perfect for New Year's home decoration and creating a cozy atmosphere. The technology for performing the work is not too complicated:
- Make a cardboard ring to serve as the base.
- Using glue, the pasta is attached to a cardboard base. This must be done in any order to eliminate gaps between individual elements.
- After the glue has dried, the surface of the product is treated with golden paint.
- The wreath is decorated with a red ribbon. It is advisable to attach bells.
Christmas tree
First, build a cone out of cardboard. It is advisable to choose a green base color. It is installed on a specially made base, which acts as a stand. The cone is covered with glue. Pasta is attached to it.
You should start from the top, gradually descending downwards. The simplest design uses feathers, but Christmas trees with different shaped pasta will look original.
Snowflake
An original pasta craft can be made in the shape of a snowflake. To do this you will need shells, horns or leaves:
- A plastic bag or cling film is placed on the base.
- The middle of the snowflake is made from two horn elements glued together in a circle.
- The outgoing rays glue shells to the circle of horns.
- Leaves are attached to them.
- After the structure has dried, it should be coated with paint. In this case, the film is removed from the back to paint the second side.
- Using double-sided tape, the snowflake is attached to the glass or hung on the Christmas tree using an attached ribbon.
Cup and saucer
It is necessary to take original tea set items. They are wrapped in cling film or foil. The sequence of actions is as follows:
- The bottom of a cup or saucer is covered with glue, and then round shaped pasta is fixed;
- the walls between the pasta are coated with glue;
- after the bottom is completed, begin gluing the walls;
- when the glue dries, remove the cup or saucer;
- in place of the handle of the cup, the missing elements are glued, and then the handle is installed;
- to decorate the edges of the product, you need to attach shells to them;
- After the glue has dried, the surface of the product is treated with paint.
Kettle
Ideas and methods for making crafts may be different, but a tea set will always look especially attractive. It is necessary to inflate the balloon and cover its surface with wheels.
You need to start work from the bottom, gradually moving to the top. Before reaching a few centimeters to the “tail”, pasting should be stopped and the structure should be allowed to dry.
After this, the ball is pierced and removed. At the bottom of the structure is a stand made of spirals. The product can be left in this form - you will get an original vase.
To make a lid, you need to inflate a new balloon and paste over the upper part near the “tail”. The diameter must match the base. The ball is deflated and the kettle is covered with a lid. The handle and spout are also made from pasta. Horns are suitable for the handle, and feathers for the nose.
Casket
A box is constructed from cardboard - a base and a lid. The base can be painted in the original color or completely covered with pasta. You need to start by decorating the edges - cover the edges with wheels, horns or shells.
The lid is designed in the same way. You can make a pattern of shells or glue a star in the center. When the glue has dried, the surface of the box should be painted in the chosen color.
Crafts made from pasta will decorate your home, and children will be happy to take part in the creative process. Care should be taken when working, especially when working with glue and paint. Your imagination, combined with perseverance, will allow you to create a real masterpiece.
Photos of pasta crafts
In the existing world of various crafts with which educators and parents try to keep their kids busy, sometimes there are rare and completely exotic options for using scrap materials. Such options include DIY pasta crafts, allowing you to show your talent in working with flour products and at the same time have fun with your child, creating beautiful things.
Material properties
Definition pasta crafts, speaks about the main thing - to harmonize relationships and introduce children to the magical world of craftsmanship, you can use all available materials. Especially if these materials are in the kitchen and, as it turns out, they are an excellent product for creative activities.
A simple flour material, has:
- *sufficient strength, which ensures reliable safety of the finished product;
- *perfect forms and variety of ready-made elements (stars, bows, horns, tubes, etc.), allowing you to obtain elegant, stylistically verified compositions;
- *excellent fastening properties, thanks to which all pasta elements are securely attached to each other using PVA, which does not limit the size of the forms and allows you to create any compositions of all levels of complexity.
Application
Using different types of flour products for crafts allows you to create:
- *keychains, jewelry, flowers;
- *New Year's toys and Christmas tree decorations;
- *wall drawings, panels, creative inscriptions, postcards;
- *boxes, clocks, thematic compositions, which not only become a decoration for a separate wall or room, but can also serve as a model for sending interesting hand-made things to a children's exhibition.
Decor
Since pasta is mostly one-color, the created pasta crafts will be the same. Due to this feature of the material, in order to obtain bright, colorfully painted products that will not leave anyone indifferent, paints are needed. Any type of paint is suitable for painting crafts - watercolor, acrylic, gouache, water-based, etc. Pasta “tolerates” everything and therefore creating paintings, obeying the artist’s own talent, will be a sheer pleasure, and for a child it will be the next stage of creativity. Creativity, in which he will be a full-fledged creator of his own craft, which can be varnished and stored as a memory of the joint creative tandem - children and parents.
To understand that everything ingenious is simple and easy to do pasta crafts Everyone can, let's consider a step-by-step master class for making various products.
Pasta service
Our first product will be a tea set.
1. To work, you will need Ruote pasta, which is produced in the shape of a cart wheel. The type of product was not chosen by chance, since only this form of structural elements can look harmonious in the created tea set items.
2. The main item of the service is a teapot and therefore you will need a balloon to make it. We inflate the ball to the size of the intended teapot and tie the tail hole. We start pasting the three-dimensional figure with pasta from the bottom. First, apply PVA glue to the surface and then begin to carefully lay the pasta elements, in rows, in an upward direction. We glue the joints between the “cart wheels” more carefully, controlling the process so that the glue does not spread. Before reaching 3÷4 cm from the knot on the tail hole of the ball, we stop the pasting process. We give the PVA time to dry and carefully remove the ball from the already formed teapot shape. The bottom of this object, on the outside, is additionally covered with another type of pasta, resembling the shape of a spring (Rotini).
3. Using a second ball, approximately the same size as the first, we make a teapot lid, which should be slightly larger than the hole of the finished teapot. A handle is glued to the top of the lid, and springs to the sides.
4. Leaving the finished elements of the teapot to dry, we proceed to the saucer. A porcelain analogue makes the task much easier; all that remains is to wrap it in foil. After making the background of the product, we cover the edges of the saucer with shells (Conchiglioni or Conchiglie).
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5. Let's start creating the mug. The whole process is similar to making a saucer. The basis is a cup without a handle, which is wrapped in foil. On this structure, pasta is placed row by row. The joints between these products are treated with an adhesive composition more carefully.
6. We make handles for the mug and teapot from any type of available pasta, the main thing is that they are in harmony with the objects. You can, of course, get creative and choose some other materials, but still, only pasta will most harmoniously correspond to the chosen creative direction.
7. We make the spout for the teapot from spaghetti.
8. The last element of the tea composition, the tray on which the resulting service will be placed, is the easiest to complete. On a flat, flat surface, we lay “cart wheels” in rows and glue them together with PVA glue. We create a border along the edges of this shape using shells and let the resulting structure dry. After final drying, the resulting tray can be used for its intended purpose. You will only have to exclude the installation of hot objects on it.
9. The last step towards creating a unique tea set will be coloring. Paint color for the resulting design pasta crafts selected based on personal preferences. It will be easier and faster to paint products with spray paint, which are sold everywhere today.
Despite the fact that you cannot drink from such a tea set, it is quite possible to decorate your kitchen with it and boast of the beauty of its execution.
Pasta decorations
In addition to kitchen utensils, pasta crafts It can also be timed to coincide with some holiday. For example, for something like New Year.
We make a Christmas tree - a gift.
1. To create the shape of a Christmas tree, you need to select a conical object onto which the composition and bow pasta (Farfalle) will be glued.
2. Apply PVA glue to the surface of the cone and begin gluing the pasta from bottom to top in a checkerboard pattern. The order of laying the structural elements will resemble the natural arrangement of tree branches and therefore the upper “legs” of the pasta should “hang” over the lower ones. The height of such a Christmas tree depends on the number of rows that fit on the product and therefore, keeping this in mind, you must immediately mark the required distance or then you will have to use your imagination to hide the resulting “emptiness”. In our case, we start attaching the material from the very bottom. After pasting, we leave our Christmas tree so that the glue dries.
3.The stages of painting this figure are somewhat different from the previous composition. In this case, the spray can is used after the final stage, while gouache paints will need to be applied at the very beginning. Having painted the structural elements before they are “installed” on the product frame.
4. A separate element of the New Year tree is the stand. It is better to select it, like the conical part of the structure, right away.
5.After completing work with a small Christmas tree, you can begin creating large Christmas tree decorations. The simplest and most effective will be pasta stars.
6. You can complement the decoration of the little “forest” beauty you just created with your own hands with toys and the top of the head. To do this, you need to look in the kitchen or in stores for pasta in the form of figures. They will serve as the most suitable types of toys.
In principle, the gift tree is ready, all that remains is to hand it over and you can start creating something else original.
Box of macaroni
In addition to a spectacular gift, you can try to create something useful from raw pasta. For example, a box.
1. Pasta in the form of shells, tubes and half rings will be needed as a “building” material. In accordance with the intended pattern, they are all pre-painted.
2.The basis for the created box will be cardboard. You can make a box of certain sizes from it yourself, or the easiest way is to take a finished product and work with it.
3. Let's get to work. We begin to fold a three-dimensional flower, the shape of which will somewhat resemble a woman’s kokoshnik. But that's just something.
4. While the first element is drying, proceed to the second. Along the perimeter of the box we begin to lay out rows of half rings, alternating them with tubes. We fill the gaps between the created pattern with shells.
5. Glue the flower made first into the middle of the lid. From it we shoot tubes and shells with rays in different directions. The lid of the box is made in the style of a tea set tray, only on a prepared platform, of a certain size.
6. While the structure is drying, we select legs for it. The best solution would be plastic bottle caps. They are attached to the corners of the bottom of our box, using PVA.
7. As another option for a spectacular design pasta crafts, you can apply paint using a spray can only after completing all the work. In this case, experiment. You can combine, for example, gold with silver. Such a combination, as well as a perfectly formed pasta pattern, immediately turns the product into an object similar to crafts made from real expensive materials. He will look much richer and more elegant. The only thing is that you need to play around with such a craft, since in order to prevent various paints from getting onto neighboring areas, they will have to be sealed with tape or covered with something while painting. But here you have to choose who likes what.
Regardless of which option is preferred, the finished box will always be a good storage for jewelry, various trinkets, toys, stationery and sewing supplies. Both for little fashionistas and for their mothers and grandmothers.
