Today, we used different colors and shapes of pastas to make apples on paper. We used red and yellow round pastas, greenish-brown long pasta, and bright green bow-tie pasta. If your kids do well with traditional white school glue, that'd be a better choice than the glue sticks we used.
Instead of drawing an outline of an apple or telling them what shapes I wanted them to use, I decided to put out a small apple (we used a fake apple from our sensory box, but a real apple would work nicely), to see how they translated the three-dimensional object into a two-dimensional picture.
When they were finished, I asked them to tell me why they'd made their apples the way they did. The Princess had observed that our three-dimensional apple was round like a circle, had a long stem, and was mostly red but had some yellow in it. Bub had noticed that there were "bumps" in the apple, so he put bumps in his paper. Bigger Bit isn't quite old enough to "get" this, but she did a good job with manipulating the little pastas and learning to use the glue stick. 
Our finished apples. Bigger Bits (with help) is on the top left of the picture, The Princess is the middle on the right, and Bub's is lower center.
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Such a great idea! Do you dye the pasta yourself or buy it that way?
ReplyDeleteoh, we did this to make pumpkins!!!! so fun!!! :) thanks for sharing on the sunday showcase! :)
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What a fun idea! How did you die the pasta? I love this!
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~Beth
LOVE it! Super cute. Found you on Living Life Intentionally Linky Party. thanks
ReplyDeleteI put a quick tutorial up for my easy way of making dyed pastas (and rice). It's so simple, and really makes pasta a fun manipulative to work with. Thanks for the comments
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