Crafts from different materials like to make both children and adults, experienced craftsmen. A wide variety of materials are used - junk and natural, fabric and satin ribbons, newspaper tubes and quilling strips. Beautiful crafts are obtained from cereals of different colors.
In this article, the reader will get acquainted with the manufacture of pasta crafts for children. Consider step-by-step work with photos. On them you can see what the appearance of the product should turn out in the end.
Crafts from pasta for children can be different. These are flat pictures and three-dimensional figures. Such unusual material is used to make figures only from flour products or as a decorative decoration for a picture.
Also, advice will be given on how to modify the appearance of pasta, adding not only options of different shapes, but also color diversity.
What do you need for work?
First you need to think over the plot for the future image. If pasta crafts for children are done on cardboard, then you need thick PVA glue. Used in the creation of details of the picture as soon as pasta of various shapes, and additional materials - colored paper, cereal or fabric.
For voluminous crafts, in addition to PVA glue, you can use a glue gun - so the bonding of parts will be more durable.
Depending on the plot of the picture, pasta is also selected. In form they are different. These are shells, and a long feather, horns and bows, corrugated and smooth products. Before buying in a store, you must first choose which form the material is needed.
If a pasta craft for children needs a foundation, then you can buy a foam ball in a hardware store. There are products in the form of a wooden or foam egg. Suitable for work on Easter.
How to color pasta?
Often, to make children's pasta crafts, it is necessary to paint small details. Many do not know how to do this. In fact, everything is simple. The method of painting is similar to coloring boiled eggs for an Easter basket. Food coloring is poured into disposable cups and water is added. The powder is thoroughly mixed so that there are no lumps. Then pasta of the necessary form is selected and lowered into the container for 15-20 minutes.
If you worry that they will become limp, then this will not happen, since the water is cold. Then they lay out the details on the old newspaper, under which the oilcloth is laid out. This is done so as not to stain the table with paint. For drying, you need to give a long period of time, otherwise the paint will get your hands dirty. Only when the pasta is completely dry, you can begin to work with them to create crafts for the holiday.
Christmas tree snowflakes
This craft is made only of pasta. You can use both round products, and elongated. It is better to lay out the figure on the table first, so that you can see how much material is needed. Then, using PVA glue, individual parts are collected in a beautiful snowflake. The glue must be fresh and thick.
A thread or a thin satin ribbon clings to the top of the craft. Then you can hang the snowflakes on a Christmas tree. Now it’s fashionable to decorate the Christmas tree with unconventional homemade toys.
You can use sparkles to decorate pasta snowflakes. To fix them on a craft, you need to spread the surface of pasta with PVA glue and sprinkle glitter on top or tinsel cut into small pieces. Then the craft will beautifully sparkle in the light of a Christmas garland.
Christmas balls
If you decorate the Christmas tree with pasta snowflakes, then you can also hang balls glued with pasta of various shapes on its branches. It is better to take small parts, since the balls themselves are small in size.
As a basis, it is best to take ready-made foam balls. They stick well and are very light in weight. At the top there is immediately a loop for the thread. It can be removed from an old or broken toy. The metal spring can easily hold the craft on a branch. Then you need to spread the foam with PVA glue and layer by layer cover the entire surface of the ball with small pasta. You can pre-dye them in bright colors with food colors. After the glue has completely dried, the crafts are hung on the branches of the New Year tree.
Christmas tree on a cone
Look at such a wonderful work, as in the photo below. Master class crafts from pasta, read on. The basis is a cone twisted from thick cardboard. The edges can not only be glued together with PVA, but also fastened with a clerical stapler for a better connection. Then you need to cook pasta of small sizes, you can take horns or small pasta.
They are attached to the base, both on the end part, and lying on its side. Before work, you can paint all the pasta in green. The top of the Christmas tree needs to be highlighted separately, choosing the original pasta shape. You can use a bow or shell. You can put such an original craft on a shelf in the room or on a festive table.
February dad gifts
As an article of pasta on February 23, you can make dads a steam locomotive. It consists of two trailers. The first - multi-colored - has long large details with a corrugated surface. The base is glued from long wavy pasta. Six wheels are attached below, three on each side of the train. For such details you need to buy round wheel-shaped pasta.
Then the superstructure of the first carriage is assembled from wavy large products. For the engine, red pasta is laid out horizontally. The pipe is assembled from round wheels painted in dark color. The driver's cab rises higher with the help of a vertical arrangement of pasta. These parts are painted green. The roof on the cockpit is also made of wavy large pasta.
Further work continues on the second car. Briefing on step-by-step pasta crafts read on. This part of the design is much simpler. If desired, pasta can be colored with food colors. First, a wide platform of long wavy pasta is glued together. Then attached vertical columns that hold the roof. Four wheels are attached below.
The crafts for dad can be installed on thick cardboard so that it is more convenient to carry it from the kindergarten home. Dad will be very surprised by such an original composition. For the holiday of February 23, they usually make military equipment - a tank or a ship. But in the war, trains delivering cars to the front also play a big role.
Gift mom
On the occasion of March 8, mom can also be pleased with pasta crafts. If you paint them in different bright colors and string them on a nylon string, then for your beloved mother you can create original beads and a bracelet. Put the pasta on a string with alternating colors. The central pendant can be decorated differently. If, for example, all "beads" are made of short and thick pasta, then the middle can be made a larger detail by taking a bow or a shell.
On the bracelet, the central part can also be distinguished. For example, if all the “beads” are blue, then the accent point is made red or pink.
Children can make such an easy craft even in the younger group of kindergarten. The teacher can only pre-color the details in different shades. Children in the lesson will string pasta on a thread, alternating colors.
Easter eggs
After the celebration of March 8, kindergarten is preparing for the church holiday of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ. Crafts from pasta for Easter with your own hands can be made different. These are eggs, flat and voluminous, a cockerel or a chicken.
For young children, an egg-shaped template can be cut out of cardboard. An interesting idea for crafts - pasta eggs on a colored background. The kid can only paste pasta on a cardboard blank. Older children can be trusted with alternating different forms of pasta.
There is another option for making Easter pasta crafts. You can paint the details in various bright colors and stick them in layers. Such an egg will look very impressive.
Bulk egg
The basis for such a craft is not cardboard, but foam or wood material of the required shape. PVA glue is applied to the surface of the item and decoration elements are attached. For such crafts - pasta eggs - use the smallest details. You can take thin broth noodles, stars, letters.
The painted details or the ornament executed in the center of the egg will look spectacular. It can be an Orthodox cross, a circle or a snowflake.
Cockerel - Golden Scallop
A very original craft for Easter with your own hands from pasta will be a picture of a cockerel. It will take long pasta and a few rounded horns. Since the body of the bird is round, the pasta must be carefully smashed, leaving the required length.
The cockerel can be made in natural color by painting only the scallop and beard. For them, it is better to choose wider parts. You can, as in the sample shown in the photo, break the bow-shaped pasta and attach a half to the head, and the second under the chin. To make the figure stand out visually on paper, use a bright background of saturated colors.
Semicircular details are made from long pasta by soaking. They need to be immersed in water for a couple of minutes and squeezed on both sides. After drying, the bent shape will remain. Such details are useful for the manufacture of the tail, lower body and claws on the legs of a bird. Feathers on the stomach are laid out from purchased horns. Such a craft for Easter from pasta can be created as a greeting card for the great holiday.
Tea-set
For this bulk craft, first make a tray on a thick sheet of cardboard. It is pasted over with the same flat details, only the edging on the edge stands out. To create it, you can use shells, as in the photo below. After drying, the tray is placed on the newspaper and blown with acrylic paint from a spray can. The color is chosen at the request of the master.
Further work begins on the teapot. Oddly enough, but for gluing parts, the balloon is inflated to the required size.
The pasted wheels from the dough are not completely, but of the intended height. Similar work is done with the lid for the kettle. When the pasta is firmly fixed, the ball is pierced and removed through the hole with your hands. Then work continues on the decorative elements. The handle and nose are made, the lower circular base. On the lid is a bezel and a small round handle.
Salted dough fish
Such an interesting and bright craft is made from dough mixed with salt. To make it, you need to combine equal proportions of fine Extra salt and wheat white flour and mix well. Then half a glass of cold water is poured. You can pre-hold the glass in the refrigerator. The dough should be tight. If you knead it in advance, then for storage you need to wrap the lump with cling film and put in a cold place.
If after storage the dough has hardened, it's okay. You need to add more water and knead the dough a second time. Then it is rolled out on a table, sprinkled with flour, into a cake 1-1.5 cm thick. A shape of a fish with a tail and fins is cut with a knife or stack.
Then the fun begins. Fish scales are made from rounded pasta. You can just push them into the dough without coloring. But, of course, the craft will look much more beautiful if you lay out the horns with alternating bright colors.
It is better to dry such a craft in a natural way by putting it on a windowsill in the summer, and on a central heating battery in the winter. If dried in the oven, then pasta can burn and spoil the appearance of the product.
Conclusion
As you can see, making pasta crafts is not at all difficult. After all, there are a huge number of different varieties on sale. There are even already painted ones. But the child, of course, will be more interested in the coloring of small parts for crafts himself.
Macaroni is perfectly bonded with thick PVA glue. To create a masterpiece, it is not necessary to purchase a glue gun, you can do it at a low cost. So make up your mind, think over which option you liked the most, you can come up with your own original craft. Attract the kids, they love all sorts of unconventional techniques for performing work. Good luck