Playdough, Plasticine & Clay for Kids

Playing with plasticine is fun and most young children love it.

Teaching your child to roll animals from modelling media with their hands and to flatten dough with a rolling pin engages both the muscles in the hand and in the arm. Rolling a ball of dough involves a different hand action and type of control.

Simply the act of molding clay in one's hands whether you're a child or an adult can be very calming. Remember those stress balls that were once so popular? Manipulating the clay can help relieve stress or even be an outlet for young children who physically express their emotions.

Cutting rolls of playdough with a plastic knife or a pair of child safe scissors provides another way to practice using these every day tools.

Besides, it's an outstanding sensory development activity for little hands. Young children are still working on fine motor skills and dexterity. Rolling, squeezing and forming the clay helps them in this area.

What’s more, you might not realize it, but playing with clay is promoting those little minds to get busy by thinking about what they're going to create and how they're going to create it. This type of creative play promotes imaginative problem-solving skills.  

As well as being great for fine motor development, there is limitless potential for imaginative play to be found in a ball of dough.