This weekend it was my husband’s birthday. For his birthday, we had a nice family breakfast and spent some quality time together, but daddy really wanted to watch football today. Since he so willingly gives up football every Sunday for Paw Patrol & Doc McStuffins, Mai & I were determined to let him watch his team play today. We needed an activity to keep our little one occupied for a long period of time.
As you all probably already know, I am a huge fan of pasta crafts. We have more boxes of pasta for crafting than we do for eating in our house. One of my favorite pastas to use is Ditalini. When dyed, it looks like beads. We made pasta jewelry a while back and colored much more of the small pastas than we needed. We had a ton leftover to use. We just needed a project that we could use them on.
Luckily we had the perfect activity in mind that both kept her busy for a shockingly long long time & used up all of our little Ditalini.
Spread out Play-Doh in the center of a paper plate.
Color pasta by shaking pasta in a plastic Ziploc bag with food coloring & let dry.
Have them press the pasta pieces into the Play-Doh one by one.
You can also use another pasta to outline a shape and work around it.
This was a fun activity and craft for us. I was impressed with how thorough and thoughtful Mai was when placing each piece as if she already had a plan for each piece.
Hey, why does yours look better than mommy’s?
The Pinterested Parent 
Aww, another fun craft and cute activity. As always thank you for sharing your awesome ideas with us!! 🙂
Thanks Janine. I loved this one. She was so focused in it. She must have worked on it for a straight hour. Ahhhh. Peace. Lol