Pasta Packaged My Way

Pasta comes in all different shapes and forms. We might think there is just the pasta we see in our spaghetti, but if you do a quick search on the web, you will find that Kraft designs some of their pasta to match some pretty fun themes. Kraft has made a Spongebob pasta, Paw Patrol Pasta, and even pasta in the shape of the characters from Despicable Me!

What is your favorite show or video game? Think about if you worked for Kraft, what pasta would you create?

Pasta Packaged My Way is a fun activity where you will not only design your very own pasta, but you will also design the box it comes in. This is a valuable project, because packaging design is a great skill to have as a graphic designer.

Materials:

• Paper

• Pencil

• Crayons, Markers Colored Pencils

• Laptop/ Desktop/ Phone (Internet used for research)

Steps:

Take 5-10 minutes to research the different pasta shapes that already exist. This is also a great time to get inspired!

Create a mind map or list of all the different pasta you want to design.

Choose your best idea, and on a sheet of paper, draw your different pasta designs.

Color it in! Yellow is an awesome color for pasta, but you can also be creative and mix other colors with yellow or try a different mix.

After you finish designing what your pasta will look like, come up with a name for it! For example, if you chose to do Pokemon pasta, you can call your creation “Pokepasta”.

Whatever name you choose, think about how you would want to advertise this product. Do you want the packaging to be colorful and fun? Sophisticated? Spend about 10 minutes sketching how you would design the box of your pasta.

Finalize your packaging design by picking the best sketch, and redrawing it on a fresh new piece of paper.

After finalizing your design, color in the packaging. By the end of this project, you should have two pieces of paper filled with your pasta designs and packaging designs! Congratulations, you are now a packaging designer.