Toddler Art: Noodle Art

We had a nice group that had some new faces. The kids did really well listening to Noodles for Baby by Jamie Meckel. This board book was perfect for the noodle theme because it was about babies eating all kinds of noodles and getting messy. The kids thought the messy parts were funny.

For our first craft, we made our own plate of spaghetti using a paper plate with red and brown paint, yellow yarn, and cut out brown circles. We used pom poms attached to clothespins for the one and two years to get a better grip and they swirled their colors together to get "sauce." Then they added their yarn noodles and construction paper meatballs. The group really enjoyed playing with the paint with this one.

For our second craft, we decorated butterflies using colored pasta. The kids practiced their gluing and some of the older kids even made patterns using the different colors. In the future, I would like to try dying pasta with vinegar and try using half-down spaghetti as paint brushes.

This was a fun one and we had some playtime afterwards.