If you're looking for quick fun on a rainy day, just use your noodle -- elbow, bow tie or penne will do -- to make these posable toy animals.
| Prep Time: Under 1 hour | |
| What you need: | |
| Dry pasta
Pipe cleaners Glue | |
| Seasons: Rainy day | |
| Materials: food items, pipe cleaners | |
| Instructions: | |
| 1. | Create the animal's torso by sliding a few pieces of pasta onto the center of a pipe cleaner. (Wagon wheels are perfect for a chubby belly; rigatoni for a lean one.) |
| 2. | Then, bend the pipe cleaner on both sides of the torso to form a neck and tail. Add more pasta and fold the tips of the pipe cleaner to hold the pieces in place. |
| 3. | Bend the neck (between pastas) into a right angle to form a face. |
| 4. | To attach legs, ears, or horns, twist shorter lengths of pipe cleaner around the body and string them with macaroni. You can even glue on miniature soup pastas for a mane or fur. |
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