Try these fun pasta art activities for kids using your own dyed pasta and some arts and crafts materials you probably have at home. The possibilities are endless!
Updated July 2025
We’ve dyed pasta a few times now and have used it to make pasta necklaces, pipe cleaner caterpillars, and pasta collages. We also love using it as a poke-in with playdough. But there are so many more ways to use dyed pasta!
First, though, you must dye your pasta, which is super simple.
Now you’re ready to use the colored pasta for kids art activities!
Now that you have your pasta dyed, here’s a video showing Pasta Arts and Crafts in action! And don’t forget to scroll down to get more ideas.
Pasta Art Activities for Kids
1. Pasta Sculptures
Use air dry clay as the base of your sculpture and poke pipe cleaners in the clay. String with pasta beads. Add additional pipe cleaners and pasta as desired until the sculpture is complete. Display your piece of 3D art somewhere special!
2. Pasta Jewelry
You can string your dyed pasta onto yarn or pipe cleaners to make bracelets or necklaces! And you can, of course, use the pasta shapes with pipe cleaners, threading them on for sculptures, spirals, or even letters.
3. Pasta Donuts
Press small colored pieces of pasta into a round piece of air dry clay or playdough to make a donut! Or a pizza, or a little person!
4. Pasta Mandala
Glue the colored pasta shapes on a sturdy paper plate or round piece of cardstock in a radiating mandala design. You can also make a face collage, or any other pasta design you like.
5. Pasta Collage
We love to use dyed pasta as a collage material, like pom poms and feathers, for all kinds of colorful collages.
More Crafts for Kids
- How to Dye Pasta for Crafts
- How to Dye Chickpeas for Sensory Play
- How to Make Rainbow Art Collages for Kids
- How to Create Monochrome Paintings
- 9 Easy Collage Ideas for Kids
- 10 Art Invitations to Create for Kids
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