Macaroni Art

   

I have been asked by a couple of my blogger friends about macaroni art.  Apparently, when they were in elementary school, they made several macaroni art projects and find it astounding that I haven't done them in my art class.  While it is true that I have never in my 12 years of teaching elementary art used macaroni as an artistic medium, I am not opposed to it.  In fact, upon further reflection, I took part in a science lab class where the students used macaroni to make a human skeleton.  They actually turned out fairly nice.  I decided to do a little macaroni art research and came up with a few ideas.

We have done projects that deal with facial expressions and what it looks like to be happy, sad, angry, etc.  So this might be a project we can do.

We have most recently made food collages using torn paper as a medium.  I see no reason we can't do something similar using macaroni.  Now I want a cheeseburger.

I doubt very seriously if any of my students even know who the Spice Girls are.  But it would appear that someone out there really, really likes them....and has a lot of time on their hands, lol.

     Those are a few of the ideas I had just doing a little web surfing.  I'm sure my students can make something really fantastic with macaroni.  They can pretty much do anything if I can get them to focus for a few minutes on any one thing, lol.  Anyone have any macaroni art stories to share?  I can always use more ideas.