Tools/raw materials

Colored mud, plastic knife, plastic stick

Methods/steps

1. Choose lemon yellow, white, brown stone, grass green, sky blue and red rubber guide mud.

2. First roll out the lemon yellow, white and brown stone plasticine with a plastic stick.

3. Cut the leveled plasticine into triangles with a plastic knife.

4. Combine the cut triangular plasticine.

5. Rub the grass green and sky blue plasticine into strips and decorate the cake.

6. Pinch a small strawberry to decorate the cake.

Colored clay is an educational toy used by children to make creative shapes, but its technology and material are much better than plasticine, and it is soft but not sticky. After the colored mud is dried, adding a proper amount of water can restore its softness, which has environmental protection effect and is suitable for pinching creative works.

There are many colors of colored mud, such as red, yellow, blue, green, pink, orange and purple. And can be mixed in pairs to create colored mud of other colors, such as red+yellow = orange, yellow+green = grass green.

Colored clay is renewable and can be kneaded into various shapes at will. According to different shapes of molds and templates, colored clay can be made into various articles, or you can create your own works under the guidance of teachers or parents, which has a unique educational effect on the coordinated cultivation of children's hands, brains and eyes, as well as the cultivation of color recognition and creative thinking ability.

At present, colored clay is divided into two categories: granular and non-granular.