It’s time to once again resurrect one of my favorite features….Teaching Tuesday. The holidays seem to always get me in a crafty mood, and this project was simple and fun…my favorite combo.
We made this pasta pumpkin project in my daughter’s Kindergarten class last week which is perfect for Halloween or fall, but you can totally do this at home with the littles. All you need is pasta, paint, glue, paper, a pipe cleaner, and a little imagination!
First things first, dye the pasta with paint. I used Crayola Washable paints, 1 TBSP of paint, with 2 TBSP’s water. Just throw it in a bag and shake it up! (Feel free to sing the Taylor Swift song “Shake it Off” while doing this….)
After about a minute or so, lay it in a single layer on wax or parchment paper to dry. This took about 30 minutes.
Once dry, it’s time to pick a color of construction paper for your base and go to town with some glue! Our Kindergarten teacher showed the kids different sizes and shapes of pumpkins and handed them glue. Some made several little pumpkins, some made one large one, and some did an outline in glue of a pumpkin. It was interesting to watch as each child approached the pumpkin project differently.
After they created their masterpieces, we gave them brown paper to cut a stem and a pipe cleaner to glue on the top. Cute huh? The activity took quite a bit of time for the kids to complete, so I would plan at least 3o minutes. I also did this with my almost three year old who made both a pumpkin and the letter “P” with the pasta shells! Hope you enjoy this simple art project with your kids!
Great idea! My kids love using paint and glue, so this would be a winner!! I love the idea of learning about the letter P to go along with it too. We might have to do this today!
This looks like so much fun!!!! Adding this into the plan!
My kids would love this! And now I have that song in my head.. but I do love a bit of Taylor Swift every now and again.. so thats ok! 😉
This is adorable! I needed to find a craft for my 1st graders Halloween party and I think this is the one! Thanks for sharing 🙂
Oh I hope they like it! And thank you!
Did you sing “Shake It Off” while in the kindergarten class?? I might.
And also, I think my kids would try to eat it – thinking the orange was cheese from the boxed mac and cheese!
What an awesome activity.
of course! ANd showed them the video like an idiot on my phone. My toddler now sings Katy Perry “I’m wide awake wake wake wake wake wake wake” instead of sleeping at naptime. Sigh. It IS fun and super duper easy. They tried to eat it so I gave them snacks while they did this!
This is just adorable! I taught Kindergarten and I know the children would have loved this! Hopefully we’ll get to this next year when my son is a little older and won’t try to eat all of the pasta (he still might next there though haha).
I love this!!! I am going to put this on my Need To Do with Chase list! He would love it!
Pinning!!
Looking forward to more fun stuff on teaching Tuesday!. Such a fabulous idea!