Using Polymer Clay to create school projects, learning a life skill in arts and creativity, to develop their fine motorskills and improve hand and eye coordination
Playing with polymer clay gets children to exercise their hands and fingers with the kneading, shaping and the sensing of the clay shapes they create. Creating basic 2D and 3D shapes will allow them to make animals, fish, cartoon character, etc. Adding accessories such as magnets, key rings, etc. will make their clay design to be useful and will help children to built hands on creative skill, develops social skill, positive self-image and confidence.
An artist, designer and teacher in Singapore, Garie is a self-taught clayman. He has been making models from Plasticine since he was a child. Since his discovery of the versatility of Polymer clay in the early 1980s, he has created lots of clay miniatures for his own children.
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