DIY pasta beads

Handmade jewelry is a reflection of your soul.

Macaroni beads are an avant-garde accessory for an outfit

Can you imagine a girl or woman without jewelry? With difficulties? You’re right, this is simply an unacceptable option for lovers of all kinds of trinkets! There are so many types of jewelry produced for fashionistas of different ages, it is simply impossible to list what materials are used! After all, the axiom that you can never have too many accessories has long been known to everyone and nothing can be changed here!

Today at the master class we will work with a completely new component - pasta, creating a special type of decoration from this food product - unique multi-colored beads. Please note that pasta is not only a food product, but also a very beneficial material for needlework.

If you take all the forms and varieties of pasta produced by the food industry, a huge field of activity will open up for every creative person.You can make a lot of wonderful decorations with your own hands, including a disproportionate number of different variations of beads, necklaces, bracelets and pendants for them.

Advantages of working with pasta:

• inexpensive and accessible product for creativity;
• easy to work with;
• has a variety of forms;
• easy to paint;
• sticks quickly;
• has a long shelf life;
• environmentally friendly product, harmless to the human body;
• The material allows you to create many different crafts.

New accessories made from multi-colored pasta in every fashionista's box will allow you to choose any option, complementing your everyday or even festive outfit and creating the image of a modern lady. in avant-garde style.

Pasta beads - good time with children

Crafts from pasta are not a difficult task, even small children can master it. Girls and boys, kindergarten students and primary schoolchildren will be able to create beads from pasta as a gift for their mother or sister. This will provide them with absolutely no difficulties in their work. The main thing is that children engage in the creative process under the guidance of adults.

Joint activities not only bring children and parents closer together, making their relationships closer and friendlier, but also:

1. Develops and strengthens fine motor skills of children's hands.
2. Gives kids the opportunity to repeat and reinforce previously learned colors.
3. It will teach them to work in pairs, developing an interest in joint creativity.
4. Will introduce children to an understanding of aesthetics, beauty and the importance of making simple objects with their own hands.
5. Develops perseverance and balance in little mischievous children.

Young people and experienced handicraftsmen will also easily master the new type of handmade.You just need to follow the recommendations below step by step.

What you will need to make beads:

• pasta of various types: horns, stars, bows, feathers, wheels or other tubular and ring-shaped figures (the main thing is that they are hollow in the middle or conveniently glued to a thread or fishing line);
• for kids, prepare larger parts, for older children - any size, for adults, if desired, depending on the idea;
• food coloring, cups, water and plastic bags for the little ones;
• acrylic paints or gouache of different colors and brushes for older children;
• spray paints for adults only;
• glitter powder and varnish to give the product a festive shine;
• oilcloth for coloring individual pasta, the finished product and protecting the table from paints;
• album sheets for drying painted beads;
• silk threads, elastic fishing line or ribbon for attaching beads;
• glue gun, scissors, container for diluting dyes, large needle for stringing parts.

How to make beads from pasta with your own hands?

Adviсe:

1. It is better to take pasta with a corrugated surface. They will make more spectacular and elegant beads that will look very unusual and add shine to any casual or festive outfit.
2. Think in advance about how to design the necklace, what shape of “beads” to choose, what colors to paint them, in what sequence and what is best to string them on. To do this, it is advisable to draw a sketch on paper in advance, combining various pasta figures and arranging them in the order you need.
3. You can use the option by combining paste figures with plastic or wooden beads. Another way: use a glue gun to attach gold-painted bows, butterflies, and other figures of your choice to the “golden” thread. There are a lot of options, you just have to use your imagination.

Let's start our master class: Let's start creating unique pasta masterpieces.

First stage of work

We color the pasta of the chosen shape depending on the type of beads you have in mind. You can make them plain, multi-colored, striped, with flowers, large polka dots, or draw any pattern.

With kids 4–6 years old. Prepare food colors of different colors and dilute them according to the instructions. Place each color in an individual cellophane bag. Divide the pasta into equal parts and place them in bags. Close the cellophane tightly and shake the bag until the pasta is evenly colored. Lay them out on sheets of paper, let them dry well, just don’t forget to turn them over and involve the kids in the work.

With younger schoolchildren. Take gouache or acrylic paints, dilute them with water in any container and place the pasta there. There can be several such vessels with paints of different colors if you want multi-colored beads. Using a brush, rotate the pasta figures in the solution until they take on an even color. You can give the “beads” color in another way, by painting them with a brush on oilcloth. After painting, place the colored figures on paper to dry. Rotate them periodically to ensure the paint dries evenly.

With teenagers and adults. Here are the options to choose from: you can use the first two methods, or you can paint the components of the pasta necklace using spray cans of multi-colored paints. Perform spray painting outdoors or indoors with the window open.Use the same drying process as in the first two options.

The “beads” painted in this way will be multi-colored and bright, but a little dull. If you want to give them an elegant shine, cover them with varnish or manicure top. To enhance the festivity, you can sprinkle the details with small multi-colored sparkles.

Second stage of work

We collect unique stylish beads.

At this stage, children, teenagers and adults handmakers will do identical work: string well-dried pasta beads onto a fishing line, chain, thread or thin bright ribbon, whoever prepares what.

Before stringing, decide on the length of the future necklace. Take a thread or fishing line, wrap it around your neck and cut a segment of the desired length with scissors, taking into account the length of the tie. String the pasta figures in the order shown in your sketch, then the product will correspond to what you intended and you will certainly like it.

Have you assembled your decoration? Now tie the thread into a knot and hide its ends in adjacent beads. What a wonderful necklace you made! If you want something even cooler, make a pendant and attach it to the beads. You can also make a wrist bracelet. Your skillful hands will turn a food product into fashionable avant-garde jewelry that can surprise the most sophisticated fashionistas.

A handmade pasta necklace is a wonderful gift for a friend, mother or grandmother. They will be amazed by your talent and your incomparable imagination!