15 Easy Pasta Ornaments to make for Christmas with Kids!
Give your Christmas tree a heartfelt touch of homemade with 15 Easy Pasta Ornaments to make for Christmas with Kids!
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!
15 Easy Pasta Ornaments to make for Christmas with Kids!
1. Make Macaroni Pasta Angel Ornaments
2. Make Cute Painted Farafelle Pasta ornaments
Have had a lot of fun painting pasta bows! String them up & hand them up to your Christmas tree.
Idea from http://www.agusyornet.com/2012/04/cute-painted-pasta-pasta-decorada.html
3. DIY Macaroni Pasta 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, farfalle 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 Star Ornaments
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 the 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 Penne Pasta Christmas Tree shaped ornament
With lots of Penne pasta & a glue gun, we can make this tabletop 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 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
14. Make Candy Cane Christmas ornament with pasta, cardboard, paint and glue
Cut a piece of cardboard in a candy cane shape. Stick Some pasta Paint – Check out the simple tutorial at Growing up Gabel
15. Make a Rainbow Pasta Christmas Tree Craft using Mezza Rigatoni Pasta.
Put a Christmas twist to the classic pasta craft this holiday season by making this festive Rainbow Pasta Christmas Tree Craft!
Once your littles are done weaving and practicing their threading, hang up your cheerful pasta tree for a colorful Christmas tree decoration!
Wasn’t that simple to make? All you need is pasta, glue, and lots of imagination.
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These Pasta Ornaments and Crafts are so cute! What an imagination you have!
Very creative you are! Thanks so much for sharing and Merry Christmas to you!
I was trying to find the Christmas Elf made of pasta and am just being led in a loop it’s a bit frustrating . You might want to check the source and remove it if you don’t have the instructions. It’s adorable that’s for sure
Thank you. I will fix the link