Dry Pasta Family Portrait

Your elf raided the pantry and made a portrait of your family out of dry pasta.

A 10-minute idea for The Elf on the Shelf® or any elf doll.

  • 10 min
  • A little mess
  • Medium
  • Ages 4–7, Ages 8+

What you need

  • dry pasta in a few shapes
  • a sheet of paper

How to set it up

  1. Lay a sheet of paper on the kitchen table.
  2. Arrange dry pasta on it into simple stick figures of your family, with a small one for your elf.
  3. Sit your elf beside the portrait, as if admiring its work.

Safety check

Dry pasta is a choking risk for little ones, so keep it out of reach of babies and toddlers. How we check

Stick figures of a family made from dry macaroni and spaghetti on a sheet of paper on a kitchen table, with an elf doll sitting beside them.

Note from your elf: I call it Family, in Macaroni. Please do not cook the art.

AI illustration of Moss, our own elf. Yours will look a little different.

Written with AI · Checked against our safety list · How we check

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