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How to make crafts from pasta with your own hands, photo
DIY pasta crafts are a popular type of creative activity with children. The materials at hand are simple and inexpensive, and in the process of work, the child’s fine motor skills, his ability to abstract thinking, perseverance and aesthetic taste develop.
What you need for the creative process
All types of such crafts are made from pasta of various shapes.
Thanks to the variety of shapes, you can create unique DIY pasta crafts
Pasta has many advantages over chemical compositions for creativity:
- have a fairly strong structure – it is difficult to destroy the elements of the product;
- the craft can be stored for a very long time, if you do not allow contact with water;
- parts are perfectly glued together using ordinary PVA;
- a wide variety of shapes that allow you to create complex designs.
To give the horns and tubes a bright color, they are painted with gouache or spray paint. Additionally, you will need PVA glue, scissors, cardboard.
How to make a pasta craft with your own hands
Pasta is a universal material for children’s creativity, with their help it is really possible to create crafts of different types:
- application;
- interior decorations;
- costume jewelry from pasta.
Even the smallest children can master the application, but it will also be interesting for older children – up to 10-12 years old. You need to cut out any shape from plain paper – a fish, a flower, a house and stick it on colored cardboard. A thick layer of PVA glue is applied over the picture. The child lays out various pasta on it, and then paints them with gouache. So you can create a whole picture, for example, a scene from the life of forest or marine life.
Decorations for the interior can be done with children three years of age and older. The most popular are pasta photo frames. You just need to cover the finished form with a thick layer of PVA and lay out pasta of different shapes. Top with paint and varnish.
Interior items made of pasta can be made as gifts and home decorations for any holiday. These can be vases with flowers for March 8, snowflakes and Christmas trees for the New Year, baskets with eggs for Easter. To give things the desired shape, they use balloons or bowls, on which pasta elements are glued together. You can complement the product with beads, rhinestones, ribbons.
And young women of fashion will love brightly colored beads, brooches and pasta bracelets. You can even create a crown like a real princess. It, like snowflakes, should be painted with white paint and well covered with sparkles on PVA glue.
Photos of a variety of DIY pasta crafts can be found on the net. There is also a video where craftsmen describe the whole process of creating gizmos from pasta.