Rainbow Pasta Wind Chime

Dye and glitter pasta to add a vibrant, sparkling wind chime to the porch for springtime!
Materials
- Natural Braiding Cord
- Skinny Sticks
- Primary Glitter Shakers
- Neon Glitter Shakers
- Gold & Silver Jingle Bells 13mm
- Dyed/Painted Fusilli Pasta
- Scissors
- Glue
Instructions
Step 1. Gather your supplies. | |
Step 2 Layout 4 skinny sticks like a tic-tac-toe board. Glue at the intersections. | |
Step 3 Glue 3 skinny sticks diagonally across the top of the sticks from Step 1. Glue at the intersections. | |
Step 4 Once dry, flip the sticks over and glue 3 more skinny sticks diagonally going the opposite way of the sticks from Step 2. | |
Step 5 Dye (or paint) 16 pieces of fusilli lunghi bucati 8 different colors. To get more shades of one color, add more or less food coloring to the batch. Check out our “Pasta Dying” tutorial to learn how to dye pasta. | |
Step 6 Once dry, dip the last 2”-3” of each piece of pasta in glitter of the same color. | |
Step 7 Cut (16) 6” pieces of black braiding cord. | |
Step 8 Tie a piece of braiding cord onto one end of each piece of fusilli. | |
Step 9 Tie a fusilli to each of the corners of the wood bracket you created. | |
Step 10 Tie the remaining fusilli onto the remaining end pieces of the wooden bracket. | |
Step 11 Tie 6 small jingle bells 1” apart onto a 6” piece of black cording. Repeat 3 times. | |
Step 12 Tie the jingle bells to the middle intersections. Tie (4) 4” pieces to the inside intersections, as shown. Then, tie the ends together to hang. |