![]() If your child is as prolific as Fredrick’s, you might wish to introduce him/her to new media such as spinach fettuccine (makes great grass), risoni, and tortellini so you don’t get bored. Serve immediately with a glass of white wine. Top with Kalamata olives and goat cheese feta crumbles. Sprinkle with freshly ground salt and pepper and lightly toss again. In a large bowl, toss the macaroni with a high-end vinegar (a good balsamic will do, though I like pomegranate or fig), olive oil, sliced cherry tomatoes, and chopped basil until well mixed. Drain the macaroni well and pick out any remaining paper bits. Pour the cooked macaroni into a strainer, rinse it quickly under cold water, and dunk it into an ice water bath for about 1 minute. Standard school glue will dissolve in water and the paper bits will be easier to separate after cooking.Īfter loosening the macaroni from 3-4 drawings, slide it into boiling water and cook for 8 minutes, or just past al dente. The macaroni will come off with glue and paper bits. ![]() If your child uses too much glue, a spatula might be insufficient-try a razor blade and have a talk with your child about moderation. With a stiff spatula, scrape the macaroni from the paper. The refrigerator is a good place to start, though some families dedicate walls to this stuff. But, sensing a desperate man, I softened a bit and suggested the following solution that puts the art to a use better than landfill:īegin by collecting the oldest, or the most insipid, macaroni art from around the house. The last thing I need is dry macaroni falling into a bowl of borscht on its way into service. I informed Fredrick that I didn’t care what he did with the tripe as long as he didn’t tack it to our refrigerator. Besides, what am I supposed to do with them? Throw them out? She pours her heart into these things.” “But she can paper the entire fridge in a day. This seemed like a trend to be quashed, so I suggested that Fredrick take advantage of his young daughter’s still-goldfish memory and quietly discard older drawings. We’ve run out of space at home, so she asked me to bring this to work.” I’m not sure what to do with them any more. “I hope it’s okay,” he said with his eyes on the crack under fridge where the macaroni had disappeared, “Emma makes so many of these. A piece of macaroni detached itself and fell to the floor with a succession of soft clicks that diminished as I approached Fredrick. The drawing was of a flower in macaroni relief. ![]() Hesitatingly, he used a crude FIMO-covered magnet to tack to the refrigerator door a drawing from his daughter. You can string your dyed pasta onto yarn or pipe cleaners to make bracelets or necklaces!Īnd you can, of course, use the pasta shapes with pipe cleaners, threading them on for sculptures, spirals, or even letters.Yesterday, our saucier, Fredrick, approached the refrigerator with a quick glance in my direction. You can also make a face collage, or any other pasta design you like. ![]() Glue the colored pasta shapes on the paper plate or round piece of cardstock in a radiating mandala design. Photo by Andrea Martelle Pasta Mandala Collage Press small colored pieces of pasta into a round piece of air dry clay to make a donut! Or a pizza, or a little person! Air dry clay (we used Sculpt-It, but Crayola air dry clay would work, too).Display your piece of 3D art somewhere special! Add additional pipe cleaners and pasta as desired until the sculpture is complete. Use the air dry clay as the base of your sculpture and poke pipe cleaners and/or dowels in the clay.
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