{"id":3917,"date":"2016-11-08T10:30:07","date_gmt":"2016-11-08T10:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/24slides.com\/blog\/?p=3917"},"modified":"2021-12-23T11:34:00","modified_gmt":"2021-12-23T11:34:00","slug":"hooray-clay-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/24slides.com\/blog\/hooray-clay-saturday\/","title":{"rendered":"Hooray for Clay Saturday!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last month\u2019s Play Saturday was another exciting opportunity to develop and showcase our artistic skills\u2014this time using the well-loved, flexible clay we used to play with as kids!<\/p>\n

Whether you\u2019re young or young at heart, playing with clay can be highly therapeutic too. The tactile nature of clay allows you to build your imagination and motor skills while having lots of fun.<\/p>\n

And if you need any more reasons to explore clay modeling, it could also be a fabulous craft idea to give away as gifts this holiday season as well.<\/p>\n

A quick search online gives you so many ideas on how you can mold clay into various shapes and sculpture.  You can squeeze, squish, and roll clay through your fingers to create snakes and balls for example. You can even poke it with tools and add decorations.<\/p>\n

But during the Play Saturday led by Nenes, Deni, Fery and Firdaus last month, we decided to create something more personalized and unique. And what better way to do this than to model, craft and mold clay into something the best represents ourselves!<\/p>\n

For our clay modeling activity, we\u2019ve prepared two kinds of clay:<\/p>\n