Give your Christmas tree a heartfelt touch of homemade with these Easy DIY Pasta Ornaments for kids to make this Christmas season!

You can use all kinds of materials to make DIY Christmas Ornaments, including paper, pipe cleaners, clay and other craft supplies. However, few people would think about using pasta, and we’ve realized that it should certainly be among your supplies too!

Bowties, wagon wheels, elbows, stelline – there are so many different pasta types that you can use to create amazing snowflakes, flowers, and small tabletop Christmas trees. Here are a few tips for crafting with pasta this season.

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Tips for making DIY Pasta Ornaments:

If you are just starting with pasta crafts, stick to simple shapes and larger types of pasta for more durability
If you’re using smaller pieces, reinforce the final craft with more hot glue on the back
To color your DIY pasta ornaments, you can use spray paint or a brush with acrylic or tempera paints
You can also color the pasta before crafting by mixing it with paint in a ziplock bag and drying
If you’re coloring lots of pasta in one go, store them separately in ziplock bags, sorted by color

So if you’re ready to make some DIY pasta ornaments this Christmas, we’ve got some cool ideas for you!

15 Easy DIY Pasta Ornaments for Kids to Make

1. Pasta Angel Ornaments

Clubhouse brings us a fun pasta ornament craft that features different shapes of pasta as well as wooden beads. The result is a cute little angel with a flower and a golden halo – perfect!

2. Cute Painted Farafelle Pasta Ornaments

If you like painting little details, you’ll enjoy this project from Agus Yornet! You can either attach ribbons to each shape to hang them up, or string them into a garland to wrap around your tree.

3. Painted Pasta Gingerbread House Ornament

We love this cute little gingerbread birdhouse ornament that’s made with a variety of different pasta shapes like mini wheels, farfalle bow ties, tubular rigatoni, and mini spirals. This project from Chica Circle combines multiple well-loved items like pasta, gingerbread, birdhouses and paint!

4. Christmas Tree Pasta Ornament

If you can lay your hands on some wagon wheel pasta, you should definitely try this cute craft from Housewife Eclectic! Attach some red bells to the centers of each wagon wheel, attach some cord and your ornament is ready.

5. Pasta Christmas Ornaments 3 Ways

Growing up Gabel shows us that you can use pasta to create pretty much any Christmas shape, whether it’s a poinsettia, wreath or candy cane! Go ahead and try out some more complex shapes and see how they turn out!

6. Rainbow Pasta Christmas Tree Craft

Hello, Wonderful has a cute and easy craft that can easily be converted into DIY pasta ornaments! Simply use a cardboard piece as the backing and cut around it. Then attach a piece of ribbon and you’re done!

7. Pasta Snowflakes Ornaments

We love how any pasta shape can be arranged in different ways to create snowflakes of variable patterns. One Little Project shows us how to go about, without much effort.

8. Pasta Frame Ornaments

Photo frame ornaments are always popular, and Handmade Charlotte shows us how to turn dried pasta shapes into cute little DIY pasta ornaments that also feature your loved ones’ pictures!

9. Old Fashioned Macaroni Angel Ornaments

These angel ornaments from Exquisitely Unremarkable are easy enough for crafting beginners, and they look adorable! You can either create multiple to hang on the tree, or a single one to put atop the tree.

10. Christmas Pasta Ornaments with Printable Templates

One of the interesting things about making DIY pasta ornaments is that you can experiment with different shapes and arrangements to create traditional shapes in unique ways. Check out One Simple Party for some cool ideas.

11. Golden Macaroni Photo Ornaments

If you’re thinking about adding some bling to your Christmas tree this year, check out these golden photo ornaments made with macaroni. The Best Ideas for Kids has all the instructions, so check it out.

12. Christmas Tree Pasta and Macaroni Craft

This is probably the easiest pick among all the DIY pasta ornaments we’ve featured today! The Best Ideas for Kids takes colored macaroni and sticks them on a Christmas tree pattern made out of a triangle and rectangle from cardboard – easy!

13. Bow Tie Pasta Ornaments

How pretty is this bow tie pasta tree from One Little Project? It’s an easy project that uses little colorful pompoms as ornaments, and it’s interesting that this entire craft becomes decoration for the tree!

14. Pasta Reindeer Christmas Ornament

We can’t have a list of DIY pasta ornaments without featuring Santa’s favorite – Rudolph the reindeer! While The Joy of Sharing doesn’t specifically mention Rudolph, we like to think that’s him, with that bright nose!

15. Pasta Holly Garland

Kid Made Modern shows us how to create little mistletoe and holly berries with pasta shells and pompoms. You can either use each piece as an ornament, or string them all together to create a garland for your tree.

We are sure you are ready to try at least a few of these cute DIY pasta ornaments! For most of these, you don’t need much more than basic craft supplies, paints and of course, dried pasta in different shapes! We recommend using whatever pasta you have at home right now, unless you’re sure you want to create a specific ornament pattern.

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