Spaghetti Pie

FOLLOW UP ACTIVITIES:

VOCABULARY

• pasta
• macaroni
• spaghetti
• pie

MATH

• Spaghetti Geometry
• Using uncooked spaghetti as straight edges, form different shapes (squares, rectangles, triangles, etc.)
• Count the sides

SCIENCE

• Spaghetti Construction
• Using uncooked spaghetti and marshmallows (or playdough as connectors) let your child plan, create, explore and work against gravity

LANGUAGE ARTS

• Form letters from cooked spaghetti
  
  
• While the spaghetti pie is baking in the oven, you can sing this song with your child:
  "On top of spaghetti"
  "All covered with cheese"
  "I lost my poor meatball"
  "When somebody sneezed"
  "It rolled off the table"
  "And on to the floor"
  "And then my poor meatball"
  "Rolled right out the door"
  "It rolled in the garden"
  "And under a bush"
  "And then my poor meatball"
  "Was nothing but mush"

ART

• Spaghetti Art
• Have your child glue cooked spaghetti onto black construction paper

• Pasta Art
• Have your child create pictures from various shaped pasta

FINE MOTOR SKILLS

• Ditalini Bracelet
• PARENTS SHOULD PREPARE THE PASTA BEFORE THIS ACTIVITY - DO NOT LET YOUR CHILD NEAR THE RUBBING ALCOHOL
• In a disposable bowl, soak Ditalini (shaped) pasta in a solution of Rubbing Alcohol and food coloring (1:1 ratio - alcohol/food coloring)
• Dry on paper towels
• Have your child string the colored Ditalini onto pipe cleaners
• Once completed, tie the pipe cleaner together and place on your child's wrist