By Highland Park's First Grade Students

Miss Garcia read us Strega Nona by Tomie de Paola. I learned to overlap from Ms. Garcia, and I learned to paste and I learned to draw a good pasta pot from Ms. Garcia, and I learned to draw some squiggley noodles. And I learned to cut out really good.

Pasta Pots by Hart & Zarine

Photos by Dennis Fagan

Computer-Generated Pasta Pots

Pasta Pots by Brandi & Spencer

How To make a Magic Pasta Pot Like Strega Nona's:

1. Fold a 9 by 12 inch piece of colored paper in half horizontally.

2. Draw half a pasta pot shape from the fold and cut on your line.

3. Glue your pasta pot onto a 12 by 18 inch piece of paper at the bottom of the paper to leave room for lots of noodles.

4. Decorate your pasta pot with scraps and shiny shapes to make it look magical.

5. Draw a long, curvey line for your first noodle. Draw a second line close to and parallel to the first line and connect the ends. It is important to do 2 lines for each noodle so you can overlap them.

6. For the next noodles, draw the lines so that they stop when they get to a noodle that was drawn before and continue on the other side . This will make one noodle look like it is behind another noodle.

7. When your page is so crowded with overlapping noodles that you can't draw any more, color your noodles in with marker. Make each a different color so you can tell which goes behind which. Make some of them striped! Color them in as neatly as you can so your noodles don't look hairy.

Text written by: Frances and Pilar
Edited by Ms. Garcia.

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