Noise makers

What we used:

2 cups
Assortment of rice, beans, pasta, etc (different sizes and shapes for the sound)
Electrical tape
Stickers to decorate

Fill one cup with a handful of assorted items. Place the second cup on top and tape together. Decorate! If you use paper cups you could paint it or use markers. We used plastic, so we used stickers. Shake it all around. Great for parties or sporting events!

Macaroni Necklaces

Here's what we used:

Pasta with a hole-we used ziti
poster paint
paint brushes
string
something to cover the table

What we did:

We covered the table with newspaper. The boys painted pieces of pasta and left them on the paper to dry. I do suggest maybe putting them on wax paper, we didn't, the newspaper stuck to the pasta. Maybe wax paper would work better. Once dry, we strung the pasta on the string. Easy! And the boys loved it.
Here's the finished product: