Pasta Metamorphosis

Pasta Metamorphosis
Your students can make a unique art project that demonstrates the entire life cycle of the butterfly
using different kinds of pasta.
What you need:
Optional:
Plain white paper plates
Green construction paper
Scissors
Small twigs
Orzo pasta (small seed-shaped pasta)
Corkscrew pasta
Bowtie pasta
Shell pasta (small)
Markers
Pipe cleaners
Glue
Wiggly eyes
Tempera paints
Paint brushes
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Student instructions:
1. Draw a "+" on the paper plate to divide it into four separate parts. Number the four "pie
pieces" consecutively.
2. Cut the paper or felt into leaf shapes, and glue one of these leaves into parts one and two.
3. Glue the twig into part 3.
4. On top of the leaf in part 1, glue a few pieces of orzo pasta. This should look like butterfly
eggs on a leaf.
5. On top of the leaf in part 2, glue a piece of corkscrew pasta. This is your caterpillar. Paint the
caterpillar with tempera paint or simply leave it unpainted. Either glue wiggly eyes onto the
caterpillar, or draw eyes with a marker.
6. Glue a piece of shell pasta to look as if it is hanging off the twig in section 3. This is your
butterfly's chrysalis. Paint the chrysalis brown or green.
7. Twist a small piece of pipe cleaner around the middle of a piece of bowtie pasta, leaving the
ends of the pipe cleaner shaped like a "v" so that they look like antennae. This is your butterfly.
The butterfly can be painted or colored with markers. Wiggly eyes can be glued on the
butterfly.
8. Glue the butterfly made of bowtie pasta into space number 4 on the paper plate. The
butterfly metamorphosis is now complete!
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