Pasta Tree Table Decoration

This is a fun craft I remember doing in the first or second grade. You can create some wonderful memories with your children creating unique and surprisingly elegant pasta “trees”.

What You’ll Need:

• Heavy cardboard (not corrugated!)
• Elmer’s glue
• Binder clips
• Several different shapes of pasta
• Spray paint (Gold, Silver, Green or Red)
• Glitter

The day before you will make your decorations, cut the cardboard into a circle about 10 to 18 inches in diameter. (Your table top tree will be the height of the radius, half the diameter.)

Cut the circle in half. Curl each half circle up on itself until it forms a code. Glue or stable this together. You can use the binder clips to hold it together while the glue dries.

Cover the work surface with some old newspapers — this can be a very messy craft!

Take different pasta shapes and glue them to the outside of the code. These represent both leaves and ornaments. Cover as much of the cone’s surface as you can.

Let it dry … about an hour.

Now take your cones outside and spray paint them. Before the paint can dry, sprinkle with glitter.

Let your creation dry overnight. Be sure to shake any loose glitter free before bringing it inside.