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Give your Christmas tree a heartfelt touch of homemade with these fun and easy pasta ornament craft ideas.

With different kinds of pasta, you can create amazing snowflakes, flowers, and small tabletop Christmas trees. Your kids will love helping you and by using their imagination, they can come up even with some new forms and designs. Bowties, wagon wheels, elbows, stelline ..  there are so many different pasta types that you can use. Glue them together by using a hot glue gun, color the ornaments with various paint colors and decorate with other embellishments. How easy and creative can  pasta be!

13 Easy Christmas Ornaments for Kids to make with pasta

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1. Macaroni Angels

2. Cute painted pasta ornaments

Have had a lot of fun painting pasta bows!String them up & hand them up your Christmas tree.

Idea from http://www.agusyornet.com/2012/04/cute-painted-pasta-pasta-decorada.html

3. DIY Macaroni Snowflakes

I absolutely fell in love with her diy snowflake ornaments. A sweet and cost-effective gift for the holidays. –

See more at: http://www.katyelliott.com/blog/2008/12/budget-gifts-ideas-winner.html

4. Bow Tie pasta Ornaments

Electric garlands may be pricey, so why not make an alternative with what you have at fingertips? For example, pasta? Just cover it with glitter

More details at http://thegoldjellybean.com/2012/11/diy-bowtie-pasta-garland.html

5. Make a painted pasta gingerbread house ornament

Use  a variety of different pasta shapes like mini wheels, farfelle bow ties, tubular rigatoni, and mini spirals and paste on a mini birdhouse.

More details at http://club.chicacircle.com/painted-pasta-gingerbread-birdhouses/

6. Make a pasta star photo frame

Cut out a star, paste pasta shapes, spray painted them with some gold paint, put a ribbon through the top, and tape a picture to the back.

Pretty cute for macaroni art idea –http://martyreneemaycee.blogspot.in/2010/11/christmas-ornament-craft.html

7. Make pasta stars

Idea from http://www.free-homemade-gift-ideas.com/simple-homemade-christmas-ornaments.html

Get your pasta out, heat up your glue gun and create away! Choose your pasta and glue them together the way you please.

8. Make a pasta elf

Found at http://weheartit.com/entry/43663561

9. Make a pasta tree ornament

Pasta Tree Ornament. Need:wagon wheel pasta, tiny bells, spray paint, hot glue gun, cord to hang ornament.
Spray paint pasta green and bells red. Glue the wheels into a pyramid, with one extra on the bottom to act as a trunk.

Glue the bells over the center hole in each wheel except the trunk wheel. Add a cord to the top and hang on the tree.

Idea from http://www.housewifeeclectic.com/2010/12/tutorial-christmas-tree-ornament-made.html

10 . Make pasta flowers

Spray paint Dry pasta , beans, lentils, spices and glue them like a flower

Idea here http://www.serendipityrefined.com/2012/06/using-my-noodles.html

11. Make a Painted pasta Christmas Tree shaped ornament

With lots of Penne pasta & a glue gun , we can make this table top Christmas Tree ornament for Christmas. Idea via http://diy-enthusiasts.com/decorating-ideas/christmas/christmas-crafts-kids-ornaments-pasta/

12. Make a White with Red bead pasta Christmas Tree shaped ornament

How gorgeous does this look? I love the how they have used the natural color of Pasta with a pop of red.

13. Join the silver spray painted pasta to form beautiful snowflakes

Wasn’t that simple to make? All you need is pasta, glue and lots of imagination.

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