Noodles From Scratch

Elliott has a book called "Noodles From Scratch."  Instead of making noodles, I thought we could do some activities with the noodles we already had at home.  Some of this didn't turn out exactly how I thought, and I think that was due to the noodles being "allergy friendly" for us.  The noodles taste great and we can't tell the difference when eating them, but I guess crafts are a different story.  The boys still had fun and I'm sure there was plenty of learning going on, regardless of the finished product!

First we put some vinegar, water and food dye in a bag, then we added noodles.  Elliott counted 10 at a time as we were adding them to the bag.

I had the boys shake up the bags and we let the noodles sit in the water/vinegar mixture for a few minutes.

After they sat in the baggies, we poured them onto paper towels to let them dry.  Here's the green...

 

...the red that, looks purplish/pink...

...and the blue, that ended up looking more like green.

After the noodles dried we attempted to make necklaces with them, however, the hole in our noodles were too skinny for our yarn, and I didn't have any other string that would work for this purpose.  Instead, I printed off a big letter N for each of them and had the boys glue some noodles onto the letters.  Here's their work...