Pasta-liscious!

Today we tried our hand at dying and playing with pasta.  We started out with small wagon wheel pasta, and moved on to large tube pasta.

SUPPLIES NEEDED

Pasta (anything with a hole in the middle)

Rubbing Alcohol

Food Coloring

Plastic Zipper Bags

1.  Place 1/4 cup of rubbing alcohol and 10-20 drops of food coloring into your zipper bag.  Then, add your pasta.  You want to make sure to have enough liquid to fully color your pasta, so you may need to add a few extra drops of color and a bit extra rubbing alcohol.

2.  Mix your pasta and color together.  Shake the bag (just make sure the top doesn't open!), roll the pasta through the liquid; have fun with it!  

3.  Let the pasta hang out in the zipper bags for a couple of hours.  WARNING:  The rubbing alcohol will smell quite strong when you open your bags, so make sure you don't have your face right over the bag when you open it or you might be knocked off of your feet!  Don't worry!  Once the pasta dries, the strong smell disappears.  

4.  Lay out your pasta in a single layer on some paper towel.  I poured mine onto an old cookie sheet to avoid spillage.  Let these dry for at least a couple of hours (I let mine dry for about 10 hours, overnight).

5.  Play!  Use them to make jewellery, glue them onto paper for a craft, make a sensory tub out of them and let your child dig in, create patterns out of the different pasta shapes and colors.  Have fun!!

We created a necklace and bracelet out of our creations!