I did it several times a week for about a year when I was nouveau pauvre, not quite divorced (no income) with a two year old. She and I had great fun and something to eat afterwards. We used a hand crank machine.

I used all the variations from Abby Mandell's Cuisinart cookbook. The kid's favorite was the spinach one, because she liked cranking the spinach in the salad spinner and because the pasta comes out a beautiful green.