Intellectual Development sessions

Clay activities for kids

1.Happy Birthday cake:

This is an interesting clay craft activity for tiny tots. Materials needed are mainly yellow, green and white-colored clay. Here is how to do it:

• Ask your kid to place a tray on the table.
• Take some yellow play-dough. Flatten it gently to form a round circular shape. Place it on the tray. This will form the base of the cake.
• Now roll some green clay into a thin elongated piece. Decorate the edge of the circular yellow base with the green clay to form a border. Flatten it slightly.
• Grab some white, red and orange-colored play dough. Show your kid how to roll it into tiny balls. Now place the balls in the center of the cake to form a cluster.
• Roll some white clay to form a candle and shape the candle flame using red clay. Plant the candle in the center of the cake.

Ask your child to make his own Birthday cake using the above steps.

1.Rain cloud and sun

This is another interesting clay modeling activity for young kids. For this project, your child will need mainly yellow and blue-colored clay. Here is how to make it:

• Take some yellow clay and roll it into a ball. Gently flatten it into a circle using a rolling pin. This portion will form the sun.
• Now, roll another piece of yellow playdough on the table with both hands. Cut it into several parts of similar size.
• Place the cut yellow pieces around the circular portion to form the rays of the sun.
• Next, show your kid how to make clouds using blue clay.
• Take a piece of blue-colored play dough and split it into two or three balls of different sizes.
• Flatten the blue clay balls into random shapes to form the clouds. Place tiny droplet-shaped pieces below the clouds.
• Place the blue clouds over the sun to cover it partially.

Ask your child to try making her own sun and clouds using the above method.

3.Butterfly

Here is another interesting clay modelling activity for your child. For this project, he will need mainly orange and green-colored clay. Here is how it's done.

• Grab the green play dough and roll around evenly.
• Make two parts of it - the bigger part for the body of the butterfly and the smaller part for the head.
• Flatten the body portion gently. However, the head needs to be round.
• Roll the orange playdough and make four equal parts of it. All the parts should be of the same size
• Take the orange balls and flatten two of them bigger and two of them relatively smaller in size.
• Now, it is time for placing the wings and the body of the butterfly together.
• The bigger orange parts can be the upper wings and the smaller ones can be the lower wings.
• Place the body and the head portion between the orange wings.
• Take some blue, red or yellow-coloured play dough to decorate the wings. Decorate it in any way your child wants.
• Now take some white and black clay to make tiny little eyes. Fix them onto the head of the butterfly.
• Your child's beautiful play dough butterfly is ready.

Your child will love these clay-modelling activities at Ladyfinger Playschool & Day-care institution.

As mentioned earlier, there are numerous educational benefits of playing with clay for your child. Using clay can help him explore ideas creatively, improve physical dexterity and fine motor coordination, and problem-solving skills.

After all, it's fun to play with clay!