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Pasta Pattern Necklace

Making⏱ 25 minAge 4+
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Do this with a grown-up. Pasta is a choking risk for under 3s. Never put it in your mouth. A grown-up ties the necklace.

🧰 You need

  • 🍝tube pasta like penne
  • 🧵string or wool
  • 🎨washable paint
  • 📎a little tape

✂️ Let’s make it

  1. 1Paint the pasta in two or three colours and let it dry.
  2. 2Wrap tape round one end of the string to make a stiff tip.
  3. 3Thread the pasta in a pattern: red, blue, red, blue.
  4. 4Keep going until the string is nearly full.
  5. 5Ask a grown-up to tie the ends.

🎨 What will you make?

A colourful necklace with a repeating pattern.