Hands-On Pasta Play: Cut, Thread, Create
Toddlers, Preschoolers
| Engagement level:
Support your child’s fine motor development through cutting and threading pasta, helping them build hand strength, coordination, and confidence with small, controlled movements.
Skills and benefits:
- Enhances fine motor control
- Supports hand–eye coordination
- Encourages bilateral coordination
- Develops concentration and problem-solving skills
- Explores different hand and finger movements
Spaghetti cutting
What you'll need:
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Child safe scissors
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Spaghetti pasta
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Pot with boiling water
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Optional food colouring and zip lock bag
What to do:
- Cook spaghetti in a pot of boiling water.
- Allow to cool completely
- If you wish to add colours, use small amount of food colouring and shake in a zip lock bag.
- Use child safe scissors to snip and cut the spaghetti.
Pasta Threading
What you'll need:
- Penne pasta, rigatoni pasta, wheel pasta or any shape you like with holes
- Pipe cleaners
- String or ribbon
- Optional Food colouring and zip lock bags
What to do:
- If you wish to have coloured pasta add your pasta to zip lock bag pour in small amount of colour and lay in sun on flat surface to dry.
- Collect items and simply slide the pasta onto your chosen string, ribbons or pipe cleaners
- The different size holes allow for children to explore more complex hand and finger movements
