Encourage the kids to use an assortment of spaghetti noodles and other types of pasta shapes to make a decorative collage. Give each child cardstock paper and help them glue uncooked pasta shapes on the page. They can write their name, make hearts and star shapes or create a house of spaghetti, noodles or other types of pasta. Allow them to choose what they would like to create.
Use thick raw spaghetti to help your kids make a wooden bead stick. Place oak stained wooden beads on each spaghetti stick and tie a thick ribbon on the top and bottom to keep the beads secure. The simple act of lacing the beads on a spaghetti stick can help small preschool children improve their hand-eye coordination skills because they are picking up small objects, finding the hole and then stacking the beads on the spaghetti stick.
Encourage the kids to help you make real spaghetti to enjoy as a class. Get permission to use the school cafeteria after lunch, unless you already have cooking appliances in your classroom. Allow the kids to watch as you brown the meat on a skillet since preschool children are too young to cook on their own. Pour the sauce in and allow them to sprinkle herbs, salt and spices into the sauce and mix carefully. Explain to the kids that the stove is hot. Let the kids pick out spaghetti noodles along with other pasta shapes and bring this to a boil in a pot. They can enjoy watching you cook, but the real activity begins after the spaghetti is done.
Allow the spaghetti to cool and then serve it your students in bowls. Some of the younger two-year-old students might enjoy playing with the noodles while older kids may want to simply eat the spaghetti. Encourage the older the kids to draw how-to-pictures for cooking spaghetti with crayons or colored pencils. They can draw you cooking the pot of noodles and meat on the stove and then washing off the noodles in the sink before placing piles of spaghetti on different plates.
Help the kids make a spaghetti-inspired pencil box to use at school. Give each child a plastic pencil box without any stickers or labels on it. Show the kids how to color spaghetti noodles and other pasta shapes with food coloring dye. Allow the noodles to soak in various bowls with food coloring and then place them on a paper towel to dry. Help the kids glue the dried, colored noodles all over the pencil box as decoration.