‘Tis the season to infuse your home with the warmth of handmade Christmas decorations. This year update your Christmas tree trimmings by crafting pasta Christmas ornaments. With just a few simple materials—pasta, cardboard, paint, and glue—you can transform humble ingredients into charming, festive decorations. Using three different pastas, you can make three different ornaments – a candy cane, a wreath, and a poinsettia.
Follow along the step-by-step process of creating three distinct ornaments using three different types of pasta. Get ready to add a personal and unique flair to your holiday décor and make a pasta candy cane, a pasta wreath, and a pasta poinsettia. Let the joyous crafting festivities begin!
When I was a kid, one of my favorite places to hang out was the town library. I grew up in a small town, and the library was just as small. They always had tons of fun events for kids. One year, they had a Christmas ornament-making party. My two sisters and I walked the two blocks to the library and had a ball making Christmas ornaments. One of our ornaments was a cardboard circle that we glued pasta on and spray-painted gold. I still have that decoration!
These pasta Christmas ornaments are much cooler than my gold wreath. While they are great for kids, they are classy enough for adults, too.
Easy Pasta Christmas Ornaments
Easy Pasta Christmas Ornaments
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Pasta Ornament Materials:
- Medium pasta shells
- Mini farfalle (bow ties)
- Orzo pasta
- Acrylic Paint in green, red, and metallic gold
- White Glue
- Cardboard
- Scissors
- Pencil
- Ribbon for hanging
- Ribbon for wreath bob
- Circle Templates
- 4″ diameter for wreath (you could use a small bowl or lid)
- 1-1/2″ diameter for wreath (you could use a milk jug lid or condiment cap)
Directions For the Candy Cane Pasta Ornament:
Cut a piece of cardboard in a candy cane shape. Ours was about 4″ tall.
Add a generous amount of white glue to the cardboard and attach medium pasta shells at an angle. Let set to dry completely.
Once dry, paint the candy cane red and white, alternating colors. Let dry.
Cut a piece of ribbon and attach it to the back of the ornament with white glue. Let set to dry.
Directions For the Wreath Pasta Ornament:
Trace and then cut a 4″ circle out of cardboard. Old cereal boxes are great for this!
Place the pasta onto the cardboard, near the outer edge and draw a circle inside, the width of the pasta.
Cut out the center and discard.
Generously add white glue. Attach mini farfalle pasta on the top of the glue alternating each one vertical and then horizontal. Let set to dry.
Use green paint to paint the pasta. Use a sheet of wax paper or a paper plate to make clean up quick and easy. Let dry.
Once the green paint is dry, use red paint and a small paint brush to add berries to the wreath. Let dry.
Make a bow with some ribbon. Attach to the front top or bottom center of the wreath with glue. Flip the wreath over. Attach a ribbon to the back with white glue to hang. Let set to dry before hanging.
Directions for the Poinsettia Pasta Ornament:
Cut out a 1-1/2″ diameter circle from cardboard. Generously apply glue and attach 6 medium shells, leaving the center open.
Add glue to the center and sprinkle in orzo pasta. Let set until dry. Shake any excess orzo pasta off and discard.
Use red paint to paint the flower and metallic gold for the center. Let set to dry.
Attach a ribbon to the back of the ornament with glue and let dry before hanging.
Easy DIY Pasta Christmas Ornaments
Equipment
- Scissors
- Pencil
Materials
- Dried Pasta: medium shells for poinsettia and candy cane; mini farfalle bow ties for wreath; orzo for center of poinsettia
- Acrylic Paint in green red, and metallic gold
- White Glue
- Cardboard
- Ribbon for hanging
- Ribbon for wreath bob
- Circle Templates
- 4 ″ diameter for wreath
- 1-1/2 ″ diameter circle for wreath
Instructions
To Make the Candy Cane:
- Cut a piece of cardboard in a candy cane shape. Ours was about 4″ tall.
- Add a generous amount of white glue to the cardboard and attach medium pasta shells at an angle. Let set to dry completely.
- Once dry, paint the candy cane red and white, alternating colors. Let dry.
To Make the Wreath:
- Trace and then cut a 4″ circle out of cardboard.
- Place the pasta onto the cardboard, near the outer edge and draw a circle inside, the width of the pasta. Cut out the center and discard.
- Generously add white glue. Attach mini farfalle pasta on the top of the glue alternating each one vertical and then horizontal. Let set to dry.
- Use green paint to paint the pasta. Let dry.
- Once the green paint is dry, use red paint and a small paint brush to add berries to the wreath. Let dry.
- Make a bow with some ribbon. Attach to the front top or bottom center of the wreath with glue. Flip the wreath over. Attach a ribbon to the back with white glue to hang. Let set to dry before hanging.
To Make a Poinsettia
- Cut out a 1-1/2″ diameter circle from cardboard.
- Generously apply glue and attach 6 medium shells, leaving the center open.
- Add glue to the center and sprinkle in orzo pasta. Let set until dry. Shake any excess orzo pasta off and discard.
- Use red paint to paint the flower and metallic gold for the center. Let set to dry.
- Attach a ribbon to the back of the ornament with glue and let dry before hanging.