Pasta! The most inexpensive art supply to have in your (kitchen) cupboard. Luckily for you, the old out of date packet on the back shelf will do just fine for this art making session. Using house hold materials to create art is a great way to model to kids creative thinking. One material can have many different purposes and in this instance, pasta, isn't going to be on the menu for dinner.

Any and all types of pasta is perfect, and once you go looking, you’ll be surprised at home many different shapes you will find. From pasta bows, alphabets, macaroni, shells, spirals and the simple penne - the variety makes pasta art options endless. Find a couple of varieties, or just one will do. You can dye your pasta for a rainbow colour palette or stick to the yellow colour scheme and mix it up with coloured paper.

What you need:

• Pasta

• Thick card

• Glue

• Food dye

• Zip lock bag

Dye your pasta

Place a cup or so in a zip lock bag with some food dye (at least 10-20 drops) and a tsp of vinegar. This is your child’s cue to shake, shake, shake the bag to their favourite song. Leave to dry.

Create Pasta Art

Arrange a pasta art scene on thick card. Once your happy with the design glue each piece one at a time. We like to squeeze a pile of glue on a plastic lid and apply it to the pasta with a popsicle stick.

Our favourite pasta art scenes include; houses, mosaics, pets, mandalas and words. Provide your little one with some direction and a ‘how to glue’ demo, and then leave the creating to them.