Red Week: Red Noodle Spelling

I had a red pool noodle and was determined to use it for our red week, so I decided to do some noodle spelling.  I cut up the noodle into pieces using a sharp knife:

And wrote some letters on it, including the letters R, E, D, O, and J in order to spell RED and ROJO:
 

I wrote RED and ROJO on the pool noodle and then cut them as well:

  
I laid them out and let Monkey J start spelling out the words:

A fun way to use a pool noodle!  What's your favorite way to use a pool noodle?