3) Bow tie pasta card

Raid the kitchen for some pasta bow ties and use them to make this clever Father’s Day card.

Prep 40 mins

You will need

• Single-fold A6 card blank (or a sheet of card folded in half)
• Coloured paper
• Poster or acrylic paints
• Buttons
• A piece of dried farfalle pasta

Method

1. Paint the bumpiest side of the pasta in your chosen colour (leaving the flatter side unpainted). Once dry, add blobs of white paint to create a polka dot pattern. Allow to dry.
    
2. Glue a sheet of coloured paper to the folded card, covering about three-quarters of the front. Trim away the excess from the sides.
    
3. Create two collar pieces from coloured paper by cutting out rectangle shapes and then snipping the ends diagonally – they should look symmetrical.
    
4. Glue them to the card so they look like a shirt collar. Use a black pen to draw along the bottom edges of the collar pieces.
    
5. Stick the bow tie between the collar pieces using PVA glue and allow to dry. Finally, use more PVA to stick three buttons down the centre of the shirt and allow to dry.

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