A Sunday Pasta Party!!!

R Sr. was out of the country for the past week and I had to come up with something interesting for R Jr. to do on the weekend. Yesterday, when he asked what we would be doing, I said "Let's have a pasta party!". "What's a pasta party, Mama" asked R Jr. "Well, we shall cook some pasta for lunch, and then make some pasta craft" I replied. His excitement couldn't be contained, even though he had no idea what pasta craft was. Truth be told, even I hadn't the slightest idea about what I was going to do but decided to let him lead and see what he would come up with.

So, R Jr. insisted on helping me make spaghetti(sans spaghetti, R Jr. selected the pasta to go into the spaghetti). So I let him add pasta to the boiling water.

Then I prepped up the materials for the craft project. I spread a shower liner over the patio deck, some old newspapers to catch any kind of paint spill. I brought out the paints, construction paper, some containers for the paints and different shapes of pasta.

Here are the different shapes of pasta we used:

I got these fun travel pasta from World market:

And here is R Jr. busy at work:

By the time he was done with all the painting, it was nap time. I explained to him that the paint needs to dry up before we can do anything with it. In the evening, we glued the painted pasta onto a construction paper :

Now, you know that R Jr. has had a significant contribution in this when you see the bustling traffic on that street:)

What a fun Sunday it was!!