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December/January 2010 FamilyFun Magazine
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Pasta Pets

Pasta Pets
Total Time Needed:
1 Hour

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.

Materials
  • Dry pasta
  • Pipe cleaners
  • Glue
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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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