Making a Pasta World Map is super simple and it will make a fabulous wall decoration for your home! Super fun and easy to make this geography craft is perfect for teaching your child about the world around them while encouraging their creativity!
To Make a Pasta World Map You Will Need:
- Extra Large Coffee Filters
- Water Colours
- Paint Brush
- Dyed Pasta
- Glitter
- Blue Crayon
How To Make a Pasta World Map:
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First you will need to draw out your map on the coffee filter with your blue crayon. You are going to want to use a blue crayon so that it blends into the design while being resistant to the paint so that you can easily find your lines. This step may be difficult for younger kids. Don’t be afraid to help your child draw out their map or provide images for them to copy from.
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Paint the water on your map! Don’t worry about staying in the lines or anything like that — water colours on coffee filters is a great colour mixing experiment! (Add in some blue glitter for a wonderful sparkle!!) It may be a tad difficult to see, but your crayon lines should remain resistant to the water colours allowing you too see the continents despite the bleeding colours.
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Outline and fill with glue (I went overboard with this for the sake of the glue showing in the photo, you do not need to use this much).
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Pour on the pasta!!
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Let dry! After our projects dried we did end up mounting them on cardboard squares due to the weight. This also made the map much easier to hang on the wall!
Tutorial from PARENTING CHAOS