Play With Clay: What Clay is Best for Kids

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Educationalists believe that playing with clay is helpful for the growth of children, especially 3-year-olds. While playing with clay, children practice fine finger movements such as grasping, kneading, and pulling. Kids’ ability to perceive things will thus be improved, while also developing their brain’s imagination and creativity.

However, there are many clay toys on the market, which ones are more child-friendly?

What is the Best Clay for Preschoolers

There is no doubt that children of different ages play with different clay toys. Preschoolers are in the initial stage of development of intelligence and ability. They need to gradually understand the things around them through direct contact and finger practice.

For preschoolers, you can think of them as recognizing and learning about the world in which they live.

Preschool generally refers to 3-6 years old, the age before primary school. As a professional clay toy manufacturer, we believe that Play Dough is more suitable for kids of this age.

Safe

Unlike traditional plasticine, Play Dough is made with edible flour and purified water.

Preschoolers may still put toys in their mouths during play, so we strictly control product quality when manufacturing toys for kids. From source materials, formula to production, QC personnel are deployed at each step to ensure that every toy is 100% safe.

Colorful

The Play Dough clay toys we produce come in rich colors. Children prefer bright colors than adults. Through vision, preschoolers can recognize and distinguish different colors.

The more colors Play Dough has, the stronger children’s ability to identify colors and can distinguish more subtle colors.

Obviously, this will be helpful for the development of children’s artistic talents. In addition, we have a variety of molds that kids can use to create simple three-dimensional shapes to practice their brain’s imagination of space.

Non-sticky

Bad Play Dough clay will stick to fingers or molds during play, which not only makes children unhappy, but also makes parents have a headache to clean up.

In order to avoid this trouble, our technicians have conducted countless tests and improvements, so that the manufactured Play Dough clay toys completely eliminate the defect of sticky hands.

Durable

Many clays will dry out and harden when left at room temperature for long periods of time, making them unplayable.

But our Play Dough doesn’t have to worry about this problem. If the Play Dough becomes hard after being left for a while, you just need to add some water to moisten them, and they will soon return to their soft and stretchable state.

Why is Clay Good for Preschoolers

The clay toys are soft, allowing children to squeeze and knead to form a ball, cube or other different shapes.

Preschoolers is at the age of curiosity to the outside world, and it is also the best stage for development of space imagination and concentration. Many children do not get good practice when they were young. When they grow up, they often cause learning difficulties and cannot focus on or addicted to mobile phones. Therefore, education at this age cannot be ignored.

Clay toys are a simple teaching game. Many educational experts and teachers encourage parents to play clay with their kids at home.

The nature of kids is to play. During the play, Preschoolers will preliminary understanding of outside objects such as color, shape, etc. At the same time, kids will exercise their fingers to handle small movements.

What Kind of Clay do Schools Use

Air Dry Clay is a kind of light clay that is very suitable for school handicrafts. This is because Air Dry Clay can be used to make fine models. Students can use their imagination and hands -on ability to create complex craftsmanship.

Super Lightweight

Compared with traditional clay, Air Dry Clay is very light, which is the biggest feature. Air Dry Clay is soft, which makes children’s skin feel comfortable. Kids can easily make larger clay models when playing.

Dry at Room Temperature

Air Dry Clay can keep moist and soft with little water during the play. At normal temperature, the clay toys will also dry, so that the production clay models will be stored for a long time without scattered. This is the advantage that many traditional clay toys do not.

Safe and Friendly for Kids

Our Air Dry CLAY is made of environmentally friendly materials for children’s 100 % safe. It aims to make children gain happiness and growth, and teachers and parents are more assured.

What Age is Air Dry Clay for

As mentioned earlier, Air Dry Clay is suitable for children over the age of 6 or above.

Is air dry clay safe for kids

Air Dry Clay is a safe toy for kids. The raw materials for making them are environmentally friendly PVA resin and clean water. Parents, teachers and children do not have to worry about safety when playing.

Can a 2 year old play with clay

2 -year -old kids can of course play clay. Qualified clay toys for kids will not harm children.

However, it is necessary to consider that the 2 -year -old kids have just begun to know the outside world, and the perception of colors and things is still in the initial stage. Air Dry Clay is a more fine toy, and they are more suitable for Elder Kids.

Play Dough is a toy that is more suitable for 2 -year -old children. It is relatively simple and important games for kids to recognize color and perceive finger movements.

Is air dry clay safe for toddlers

Many people worry whether toddlers play Air Dry CLAY are safe. This is not to worry about. Qualified Air Dry Clay Children’s toys are made of environmentally friendly, safe and friendly raw materials. After rigorous international standards, they usually do not harm toddlers.

However, the intelligence and hands -on ability to develop generally start from the age of 3. At this stage, kids have the ability to move and start absorbing and drawing external knowledge, so that children have played clay at the age of 3.

What is the Difference Between Play Dough and Clay

Although the appearance point of view, Play Dough and Air Dry Clay are similar, they are rich in colors, and they can be kneaded and played multiple times. But they still have some differences.

Materials

Play Dough is usually made of flour and water, and the color comes from edible pigment. Therefore, some parents will also make Dough in the family kitchen. You can get a recipe for making Dough on the Internet. As children’s toys, Play Dough can be kept moist, not sticky, and not moldy.

Environmental PVA, water and color slurry are the main raw materials of Air Dry Clay. It is light, and can stretch, knead and squeeze for forming. Air Dry Clay can dry at normal temperature, so that the model made can be preserved for a long time.

Relatively speaking, Play Dough is safer than Air Dry Clay.

For Kids Ages

Compared to Air Dry Clay, Play Dough is easier, so they are more suitable for 3 -year -old children. On the other hand, Air Dry Clay is more suitable for kids over 6 years old, and they can make complex clay crafts.

Generally speaking, the molds of AIR DRY CLAY toys are also more complicated, such as noodles and ice cream makers. Play Dough’s molds generally make simple shapes, such as triangles, stars, love, etc.

How do We Make Clay Kid Friendly

As a toy manufacturer, we are committed to creating clay for kids.

40+ Years Kids Toy Manufacturing Experience

We have more than 40 years of manufacturing and sales experience in the children’s toy industry, covering an factory area of 40,000 square meters, and serving countries and regions with more than 50+ internationally.

We have a deep understanding of children’s preferences, growth needs, and various safety standards. We are committed to providing children with safe, interesting and educational toys.

Advanced Manufacturing Technology

In our factory workshop, there are several advanced automatic production line equipment, and the monthly output can reach one million pieces to ensure that our children’s clay toys are produced and delivered high -quality and high standards.

At the same time, we can provide custom services for OEM and ODM, including the materials, colors, molds, toy design and packaging of clay.

Strict QC Standard

From the selection of raw materials to each step in production, our technicians will conduct strict quality inspections. Our children’s clay toys have passed ISO, ASTM, EU, CCC and other standards.

Over the past 40 years, we have worked with many toy brands and achieved a win -win success, which is inseparable from our high -quality toy products and professional sales services.

Conclusion of Best Clay for Kids

In fact, there are differences in clay toys for kids of different ages. Play Dough is more suitable for Perschoors, 3-6, and older children can play Air Dry Clay. Whether it is Play Dough or Air Dry Clay, teachers and parents can accompany their children to play and grow together.

 

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