Plaster clay is the predecessor of colored clay, which is a type of colored clay. Ordinary clay has only one color, gray and white, while colored clay has many colors that can be mixed together and reused. Good clay can also be added with some water after a long time of use to quickly restore its softness. It can generally be used to create various creative items. Therefore, colored clay is an upgraded version of rubber clay.
Colored clay is a popular toy for children. Playing with colored clay can bring great joy to children and also help with their physical and mental development, such as:
1. Improve hands-on ability
Colored clay has a physical form that allows children to freely touch and create, thereby improving their hands-on ability and fully unleashing their imagination and creativity.
2. Cultivate creative abilities
Children can use colored clay and accompanying simple tools to create everything that comes to their mind without any limitations. This not only enhances their creative ability, but also greatly helps them recognize and learn the colors, shapes, and structures of objects.
3. Enhance expression ability
Parents can exercise their children’s ability to verbally describe objects and enhance their language and self-expression abilities by asking them to describe their own creations.
4. Developing communication skills
In addition to playing with their own colored clay, they can also play with friends and use their own created models to play role-playing. Not only is it more interesting, but they can also learn to share each other’s colored clay, develop children’s social skills and emotional intelligence.
From this, it can be seen that colored clay is still of great help to children. However, it should be noted that when children play with colored clay, adults should be present to watch over them. It is important not to let children swallow colored clay, and to wash their hands promptly before and after using colored clay, especially light colored clay.