Benefits of playing with clay

Whenever you find that your child is getting bored and cannot go outside for playing or not enjoying playing with his toys then Clay is very good option that can be used for playing indoors.

Clay is easily available in the market as play dough or you can make your Homemade clay from this link.

Playing with clay involves your child for long hours it also has these additional benefits  :

• creativity :  playing with clay builds your child's imagination four-fold. you can create almost anthing with them. Be it aby anymal, bird insect or any wild creture that comes to your child's imagination

• fine motor skills : these are building up of muscle tissues in fingers of children

• patience : playing, moulding clay , sitting for hours, teaches children patience, perseverance, problem solving and self-regulation

• activity based learnign : clay can also be used for colour sorting  or designing letters or numbers , children can make alphabets of their own names

• visualisation and coordination : Using hands and eyes together for moulding and rolling the clay increases the children's hand and eye coordination.

• family time : Playing with clay relaxes adults also , so playing along with kids you can also relax and develop some family time together