Pasta crafts: guide and examples for beginners. Goldfish made from pasta DIY pasta crafts fish

Children's crafts are a fertile field for an adult, because a child is interested in everything that can be touched without fear of spoiling or creating something on their own. The scope for such pleasant work can be provided by any available material found in the bins of your home: buttons, beads, cotton wool, colored napkins and even ordinary pasta. How many interesting things can be made with pasta and noodles: a Christmas tree, a snowflake, a car, a flower or a cartoon character. Craftsmen and dreamers have long noticed and use this material for their work. Moreover, now a wide variety of shapes can be found in the store: shells, curls, spirals, stars, or even ready-made figurines of small dolls, cars, Christmas trees, etc. Pasta can be used to decorate and enliven any simple craft. Today we will do this with the “Goldfish” applique.

Let's start working by preparing a background onto which we will paste the yellow body of the fish, then we will define the head and eye on it.


Now let's start carefully laying out and gluing the pasta like fish scales. For better quality work, you should first simply lay out the pattern of the scales, and then, correcting them so that they do not look beyond the edge of the fish’s body, glue them on.


We will make the fins from two small paper fans, assembled with an accordion and glued at one edge. We will make the tail in the same way, only larger in size. We also carefully glue them next to the body.


Now all that remains is to decorate the seabed. To do this, we use shell pasta, laid and glued along the bottom edge of the work, and threads of seaweed made using the “crooked accordion” technique: we collect a long ribbon into an accordion, not in even gathers, but chaotically, and then, completely assembled, we cut it with one “ by swinging the scissors into two halves. Then we glue the seaweed, applying glue only to the ends to add volume.

Pasta can be used to decorate and enliven any simple craft. Today we will do this with the “Goldfish” applique.

Children's crafts are a fertile field for an adult, because a child is interested in everything that can be touched without fear of spoiling or creating something on their own. The scope for such pleasant work can be provided by any available material found in the bins of your home: buttons, beads, cotton wool, colored napkins and even ordinary pasta. How many interesting things can be made with pasta and noodles: a Christmas tree, a snowflake, a car, a flower or a cartoon character. Craftsmen and dreamers have long noticed and use this material for their work. Moreover, now a wide variety of shapes can be found in the store: shells, curls, spirals, stars, or even ready-made figurines of small dolls, cars, Christmas trees, etc. Pasta can be used to decorate and enliven any simple craft. Today we will do this with the “Goldfish” applique.

Let's start working by preparing a background onto which we will paste the yellow body of the fish, then we will define the head and eye on it.

Now let's start carefully laying out and gluing the pasta like fish scales. For better quality work, you should first simply lay out the pattern of the scales, and then, correcting them so that they do not look beyond the edge of the fish’s body, glue them on.

We will make the fins from two small paper fans, assembled with an accordion and glued at one edge. We will make the tail in the same way, only larger in size. We also carefully glue them next to the body.

Now all that remains is to decorate the seabed. To do this, we use shell pasta, laid and glued along the bottom edge of the work, and threads of seaweed made using the “crooked accordion” technique: we collect a long ribbon into an accordion, not in even gathers, but chaotically, and then, completely assembled, we cut it with one “ by swinging the scissors into two halves. Then we glue the seaweed, applying glue only to the ends to add volume.

Marina Orlova

Materials and tools:

a sheet of cardboard, plasticine of blue and green colors of different shades, pasta, stack, gouache or watercolor paints, brush for painting.

As a base for cardboard, you can use not only cardboard, but also a plastic board. The main thing is that the plasticine sticks well.

Mix plasticine of different colors for the background of the future painting.

Mix the plasticine not until the color is uniform, but so that streaks remain. Stretch the resulting plasticine over the entire cardboard, but not in a very thin layer so that you can embed it into it pasta.

For the picture we will take different pasta - horns, shells, spaghetti.

To make the picture beautiful, we first make a frame. Let's take one at a time pasta, put it in the place where the frame should be, and press it down. In plasticine pasta holds up well.

When the frame is ready, draw a sketch of the picture in a stack.

We start the fish from the body. Lay out small pasta- shell scales fish, leaving room for the head.

We put our heads out of others macaron. We make fins from spaghetti.

Now let's post it fish tail. It should be long and beautiful.

We will lay out algae from shells and from ordinary macaron.

If desired, you can make crab. It is made from pasta shells and spaghetti.

The picture is ready. You can make air bubbles from white balls.

In order for our picture to be completely ready, we need to color it.

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My son and I did it again crafts from, this time it’s “ Goldfish“. A wonderful character from a fairy tale, my son enjoyed making it, he especially liked painting our fish with nail polishes. I just have a few polishes left that I haven’t used for a long time, so they came in handy. My son also likes the glue gun, and every now and then he strove to glue something, including his fingers, but when he realized that the glue was hot, he put it aside and began to serve me pasta, so that I could I glued it myself. It was funny to watch the child as he sorted these pasta in his hands, he even tasted one, but realizing that it was not edible, he pulled it out of his mouth and tried to stick it to the fish. What I liked most was that he approached the process with great responsibility, but in the end it was clear that this began to tire him, so we began to work faster and finally came to the finish line. See for yourself.

1. To begin with, we prepared an environment for our Goldfish, that is, we made the sea. To do this, we cut out waves from light blue colored paper and glued them to dark blue cardboard with PVA glue.

2. Then we built a model of our pasta fish, so that it would be easier for us to glue each pasta in the right place.

3. Then glued all the pasta one by one.

The applique is made of pasta of various shapes on a plate. The base used is ordinary plasticine for children's creativity.

What motivated me to create was the huge assortment of pasta on supermarket shelves, varied in shape and size. I saw a lot of room for creativity in this.

Previously, I saw how crafts from cereals were made using a similar technique. They covered a bottle or glass with plasticine, and then laid out drawings of various cereals. It turned out very nice.

For my craft, I took a plate. It is better to use glass, ceramic or plastic dishes. It’s not very convenient to work with disposable dishes or foam plates, and the finished craft looks worse. I selected the pasta that, in my opinion, was most suitable for fish.

Work progress:

1. Lightly warmed up the plasticine on the radiator (you can warm it and knead it in your hands).
2. Then I sculpted the outline of the fish from plasticine on a plate about 5 mm thick. In this case, it is not worth making it thinner, since large pasta will not hold well. It is not necessary to follow the sketch exactly. Excess plasticine is easy to remove, and if there is not enough, you can slightly smear it as you work.

3. Then I started “sticking” the pasta. They need to be pressed deeper to hold well. First I took large pasta, then filled the remaining space with small cones. I filled the empty niches with rice as much as possible. I broke off the long pasta for the tail with my hands to approximately the size, and in some places I folded 2-3 pieces. After painting and varnishing, the joints become almost invisible.

4. I painted the finished fish with gouache and the eyes and mouth with nail polish. Of course, it’s easier to color the pasta in advance and use already colored ones, but in this case there is less room for creativity. It is important to paint over the plasticine with a thick gouache brush in between, otherwise the craft will look sloppy.
5. Varnishing is a mandatory and final stage, since varnish not only adds shine and makes the appearance more aesthetic, but also securely secures the applique to the plate. I used quick-drying varnish. It is important to apply a lot of varnish so that it flows and fills the space between the pasta. In addition, I made a 5 mm wide varnish border around the craft. I covered this craft with 5 layers, which I applied as it dried. It is enough to cover less embossed applications with 2-3 layers of varnish.

After the varnish has dried, the craft is ready. Few people, without looking at it closely, guessed that it was made from ordinary pasta. The technique is very simple and my children took an active part in the work. Even my 4-year-old daughter enjoyed making pasta and painting them with a brush.