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You can use vinegar but this seems to produce brighter colours


Material

  • 4 Ziplock baggies
  • 1 Bottle of rubbing alcohol from a pharmacy
  • 4 Bottles of food colouring
  • 1 Packet of pasta penne, or macaroni

Method

  1. Put a cup of pasta in each bag
  2. Put 1/2 a cup of alcohol in each bag
  3. Add food colouring to bags of drunken pasta
  4. Leave to sit for 1/2 hour then tip out liquid
  5. Spread pasta out on some paper towels and leave to dry

Notes

Dyed macaroni can be used for many different craft activities



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  • mle00
    • 19 Mar 2014
      4:22 pm

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  • Wonder if you can just cook it up and eat it afterwards?

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  • I remember my kids bringing home so many craft ideas made from dry pasta. It has a lot of uses

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  • Necklaces, bracelets, stacks of thing you can make using pasta


    • You could make your own jewellery shop at home

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  • This is very cute! Thanks for sharing! Will try it with my toddler!

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  • good…well done and good try.

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  • wonderful less mess idea for the kiddies

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  • Thanks for sharing; we do this at home all the time then make bracelets, necklaces and art pieces to hang up – great fun!.

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  • Hmm just looked up the cost as you will need 2 cups, it doesn\’t make it an overly cheep exercise, is there another carrier that can be used?

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  • Thanks for sharing. Lots of fun for the school holidays.

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  • I always wondered how this was made, would be a bit worried if the kids ate it though.

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  • Thanks for sharing this idea; looks pretty and effective.

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  • you can use this as art decorations or for bracelets and necklaces


    • cheers for posting such a lovely idea. really good fun doing all these art and craft activities. good way to spend the afternoon. lol

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  • My sons daycare did this but with just cooked spaghetti and food colouring – luckily no rubbing alcohol because he ate the red worms lol :)

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  • Awesome, now i can make pasts necklaces and bracelets, a lot easier than painting pasta lol.

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  • love this idea, so many things can be made with the pasta, from jewellery to sticking on cardboard and making their own little design, love it

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  • Can use the pasta for so many activities – sorting according to colour, counting, threading to make necklaces and bracelets, and using to make a collage!

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  • I remember doing this in preschool, many moons ago!

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  • Excellent idea – thanks for posting. I’ll be sure to add this to my little ones activities, I have a feeling he’s going to love it

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  • Would be great to add something different to a collarge :-)

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  • What a fun idea for the kids thanks for sharing.

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