National spaghetti day activities

One of our favorite silly days to celebrate in January is National Spaghetti Day. Each year, I gather up my cool kids for some fun art, a little cooking lesson, and of course a tasty spaghetti meal. In preparation for this delightful day, I thought I’d share my favorite things to do for this wacky holiday.

Rainbow spaghetti is a terrific sensory activity for kids. Making dyed spaghetti is easy and you only need supplies you likely already have!

Looking for a fun and easy craft idea for kids? This paper plate spaghetti craft is perfect for little ones!

Here’s our second food craft. Inspired by this craft by Confessions of a Real Librarian, we made Spaghetti & Meatballs! This is a really simple, fun craft for preschool age children. Materials: Paper plate Red finger paint Yellow yarn cut into 8″ pieces Brown felt circles Glue Directions: Begin by finger painting the paper plate ... Read More about Kids Food Craft: Spaghetti and Meatballs

Your kid must try this spaghetti painting! The spaghetti makes it such an unusual experience and it's just plain fun too.

Pin It So next up in our series of posts on 'Things to do with...' is spaghetti! These are all easy to do activities for you and your kids with stuff you'll likely have around the house. First up...... 1 - Spaghetti Structures The original idea for this came from Pinterest, but the link was spam and so I don't know the original source (apologies), but the idea is that you get dried spaghetti and playdough and make 3D structures from it. This is how I set it up for Champ, he was not impressed…

If you love spaghetti as much a we do, then TODAY is the day to celebrate National Spaghetti Day! We are going to live it up making a new spaghetti recipe!

I love using pasta for kid's crafts - mainly because it tends to be a very inexpensive craft idea! Use it for tactile art projects too!

Here’s what you need to know about spaghetti on National Spaghetti Day, which falls on Jan.4. Spaghetti is known as an Italian dish that is often served with sauce and meatballs.