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July 14, 2009 | 17 Comments

Spaghetti Worm Painting

Worms are fun. We dig for real ones in the backyard, make them for lunch ( pasta ones) and even paint with them ( pasta ones again! ). I love this activity because it’s easy, different and with older children you can challenge them to paint specific shapes, or letters using only the pasta. It can also be used as an example of before and after, talk about the process of cooking and what happens to the pasta when it’s cooked.

  1. Gather your materials. You will need some spaghetti, a pot, some paint , a plate and some paper.
  2. Cook your spaghetti. Let cool but don’t wait too long it will get too stiff to paint with.
  3. Add some paint to your plate .
  4. Dip your wiggly worm in
  5. Print onto your paper.
  6. Add more colors if you wish
  7. Let dry.

Song !

Filed Under: Age: Toddlers, Babies and Toddlers, Beginners, Bugs, Herman The Worm, Preschool Crafts, Preschoolers, Worms | 17 Comments

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17 Comments

  1. Bizzy Bee says

    July 14, 2009 at 5:31 am

    So much fun! My kids would LOVE this!

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    • crystal porter says

      March 18, 2014 at 10:50 am

      the worm thing is so much fun for my 2 twins Tammy and Angelle

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  2. Christy says

    July 14, 2009 at 8:05 am

    What a great idea. We had spaghetti last night, and I wish I had thought of this.

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  3. Katherine Marie! says

    July 14, 2009 at 11:15 am

    I love noodle painting!!!! These worms are sweet sweet sweet– enough to eat?

    GREAT IDEA!!!!

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  4. Michelle says

    July 14, 2009 at 3:13 pm

    ha ha, you crack me up! Loved the song and the noodle art, too!

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  5. Mrs Adept says

    July 15, 2009 at 3:44 am

    LOL – Oh i loved that story of Herman the Worm. It also attracted a LOT of attention from family members when I watched it.

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  6. Rebecca says

    July 19, 2009 at 8:38 am

    fun!! too cute

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  7. Donna says

    July 19, 2009 at 12:21 pm

    This might be a silly question, but what kind of paint is good to use? I just went and got a ton of craft stuff since my almost three year old is a craft fanatic, but I couldn't find decent seeming paint at the dollar store – looking for suggestions, I'm sure she'd love this craft!

    – donna
    kindredcrafters (at) gmail (dot) com

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  8. Mrs. Lindblom says

    July 21, 2009 at 7:47 am

    Very cool! Looks like fun!

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  9. Tara Rison says

    August 3, 2009 at 2:01 pm

    Diary of a Worm would be a great book to go with this.

    My son loves that song. We just watched your video three times in a row.

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  10. Rachel says

    September 17, 2009 at 8:42 am

    This looks like so much fun! What a great way to use some leftover pasta. Thanks for the inspiration.

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  11. Emily says

    March 9, 2010 at 12:38 pm

    My daughter and I just watched Herman and you had her laughing! She wants to watch it again!

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  12. Lynnet Hardwick says

    April 18, 2010 at 10:37 am

    ROTFLOL!!!! Youngest (11 yrs.) and I are home from church because we are sick and this was just what we needed! We LOVED it! We may have to try the pasta painting this next week during school. I agree with Tara, Diary of a Worm would be great with this! When I saw this, it reminded me of a great resource from the from the University of Illinois on Herman the Worm:

    http://urbanext.illinois.edu/worms/
    .-= Lynnet Hardwick´s last blog ..Feed Me Friday Books: Geronimo Stilton =-.

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  13. kim says

    April 8, 2012 at 2:24 pm

    I love that you use pretend worms and not real worms! Ive seen real worms used and its not a good way to teach respect for nature! Thanks for a great idea!

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  14. Marianne Hopwood says

    May 8, 2013 at 2:32 pm

    We’ve started using string instead of spaghetti for this and have had lots of messy fun 🙂 We had to stop using food in messy play after my kids started refusing to eat things for dinner that they’d been told not to put in their mouths at their playgroup’s messy play. They couldn’t understand the difference between pasta covered in paint and pasta covered in sauce 🙂

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