Start your spaghetti crafts simply with a yarn and glue spaghetti dish. Give each child a piece of construction paper and ask them to draw a big circle on the paper. If you would like, the children can trace the circle onto the paper using a bowl or other round object. The children can decorate their "plates" using markers, stickers or crayons. Pretend the construction paper is a place mat and ask children to draw a cup of milk, a fork, a spoon and a napkin on their place mat. Give children a roll of yellow yarn and allow them to cut it into strips and place it on the paper "plate" with glue.
After creating your spaghetti plate, it is time to place a few meatballs on that dish. Use colored pompoms for meatballs, or create them using brown yarn balls. For an extended math activity, have children roll one or two die to decide how many meatballs they must place on their spaghetti plate. This activity will encourage counting as well as one-to-one correspondence, an important preschool math skill.
Cut several different colors of yarn into strips to look like spaghetti. As a color matching and fine motor activity, play a simple game with the yarn strips. Give each child a paper plate at the beginning of the game. Using a spinner from the game Twister, spin the arrow and see which color it lands on. Have the children choose the right color spaghetti noodle and place it on his plate. To add a math component to this simple game, ask the child to choose four red noodles, or two yellow noodles.
This silly craft is just for fun. Have children create a spaghetti and meatball hat for Crazy Hat Day at your preschool. Give children a paper plate, several rolls of white or yellow yarn and a few red pompoms for meatballs. Spread glue on the paper plate and attach several yarn strands for noodles. Glue a few pompoms onto the plate. Use a hole puncher to place holes on each side of the hat and thread a long piece of yarn through as a chin strap. Voila! A perfect silly spaghetti hat.