Edible Art ~ Paint with Spaghetti and Toddlers

From our Sensory Play Messy Class
Getting Started with Cooked Spaghetti

Inspired Modern Art






Instructions
  • Cook up a batch of Spaghetti
  • Strain it and pat it dry
  • Mix some Edible Paint (Vanilla Pudding Paint with Gel food coloring works best with the Noodles but you can also try kool-aid paint and  milk paint for other projects.)
  • Prepare to get Messy!
  • Swirl the Spaghetti in the paint, then onto your paper.
We paired this with the Children's Book, Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
Since most in the class are toddlers, I paraphrase the words to get thru it quickly, paying a lot of attention to the photos and asking, "What is that?".



Next, I gave each child a spaghetti noodle to study. Then, we stood up pretending we were squigly spaghetti noodles. Oops, spaghetti can't stand up, so we fell to the floor and squirmed like worms. We finished up with a game of Duck, Duck, Goose but why not try Worm, Worm, Catepillar?

Painting was a huge success. The sticky spaghetti is so fun, enjoy!

We're linking up with Read, Explore, Learn ~

Shibley Smiles




Follow Me on Pinterest
 
Read more
Searchables: , , , , , , ,

8 Tell us your two cents...:

  1. My kids would love this! Going to pin it so I don't forget.

    Thanks for stopping by Reading Confetti!

    ReplyDelete

  2. This looks like wonderfully messy fun! Thank you for linking to Read.Explore.Learn.

    ReplyDelete

  3. This is great fun. I generally avoid using food for crafts. I justified this craft for pre-schoolers by OOPS! I made too much. Interesting when I taught foreign children, I was very hard for them to make a mess.I love messy tactile activities.
    Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs is a great book to coordinate with this project. Malika

    ReplyDelete

  4. Oh... I probably shouldn't waste food but this way those kids with special needs or the very young can ingest without worries. We love edible art, we don't always waste it, many times we make it to eat! Thanks for stopping by and commenting :-)

    ReplyDelete

  5. Love this idea! Have a child on the Autism spectrum so love the 'sensory' aspect of this as well as the 'fun'! Great blog - happily now a new follower!

    Cheers,
    Jen

    http://mumology.wordpress.com

    ReplyDelete

  6. Such a good idea! My kids would like:) Thanks for sharing!

    ReplyDelete

  7. Looks like great fun! My granddaughter loves to paint. She would love this.

    ReplyDelete

  8. Love this! We have our Kitchen Fun and Crafty Friday Link Party going on now and would love for you to share this! http://kitchenfunwithmy3sons.blogspot.com/2012/02/kitchen-fun-and-crafty-friday-link_16.html

    ReplyDelete

We LoVe CoMmEnTs and CoNvErSaTiOnS. Tell us your creative variations on our ideas.

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)