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10 Great Reasons Why Children Should Be Playing With Clay by Leonard Kok, Founder of
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10 Great Reasons
Why Children Should Be
Playing With Clay
by Leonard Kok, Founder of
It's Therapeutic
•Playing with clay has a calming effect on children •helps to relieve stress •offers a positive diversion
for young, active minds
•A great way to allow young children to physically express their emotions.
Facilitates Emotional Expression
• Rolling with palms and fingers, pressing, pounding, shaping and forming clay strengthen their muscles and tendons
• prepare them to hold pencils and scissors later on
Promotes sensory development
• Fundamental aspects of play-based learning
• imaginative problem-solving skills • planning • exploring • evaluating and constructing
It’s called Play-based learning!
• Clay play in small groups allows fun, child-friendly rules to be put in place
• facilitates important life-skills • turn-taking • communication • sharing • good behaviour is self-reinforcing.
Improves social skills
• Clay play facilitates discovery of
main differences between the boy pet and the girl pet
• prepares children mentally before adopting a pet
• age-appropriate activities on basic sexuality education can be learnt in a structured and safe environment
Promotes awareness of gender differences in mammals
• Clay – a great sensory learning experience
• tactile and visual • primary and secondary Colour
awareness. • complementary and tertiary colours • joy of mixing clay
Creative Explorations in colour
• Clay figurine is broken and
simplified into shapes • metaphorical association and play
of symbols • educational research is big on the
relationship between symbolic play and literacy development
Learning creative symbolism in a fun way
• Children guided to set individual and
personal goals • standards of excellence • value of diligence in the process of
achieving their personalised learning outcomes
• Result? Self-confidence and positive self-esteem
Learning the value of excellence and discipline
• Playing with clay involves both left and right brains
• Left brain focuses on the discipline and perseverance required to achieve one’s objectives
• Right brain creates, associates, stretching the imagination
Promotes a holistic left & right brain development
Thank you!
Is a social enterprise and an ACRA-registered company. They provide opportunities for people with disabilities in hiring and training them. They do customisation of wedding favours, birth announcement favours, Valentine’s Day gifts, Anniversary gifts, birthday gifts. In fact, any gift for any memorable occasion. They are pioneers in using clay to facilitate corporate teambuilding! They also conduct clay workshops and parties for children. Contact Leonard at: [email protected]
Contact Info • Leonard – 96625929 (mobile)
• Email - [email protected]
• FB - https://www.facebook.com/TheCreativeClayCo
• Blog: http://thecreativeclayco.blogspot.sg/
Contact Leonard at: [email protected]
• To increase awareness of products and services • To promote creative clay as a fun and
sustainable healthy activity • To provide viable skillsets and provide sustainable and gainful employment for PWDs (people with disabilities)
Objectives of
Contact Leonard at: [email protected]
• 2 Business arms: Training and Retail • Training arm – uses clay as a medium for training • Facilitated local, regional and international clients
like Linde gas, Deloitte and Touche, Munich Re-issurance, IHIS, NLB, Xcellink etc.
• An example of the Corporate Creative Clay Challenge:
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qUBydKE2u8 • Children’s and Adult Clay workshops • Birthday Parties • Parent-child bonding
Contact Leonard at: [email protected]
• Handmade wedding favors • Baby Shower gifts • Personalised gifts • Handmade Corporate gifts • Handmade fashion accessories
Retail Arm
References
1. http://drama-in-ecce.com/2012/05/04/the-therapeutic-benefits-of-clay-work-in-play-therapy/
2. http://lakesidepottery.com/Pages/The-Importance-of-Clay-in-Children's-Development.html
3. http://www.bartelart.com/arted/Clay&Toddlers.html 4. http://www.hebpsy.net/files/mrXujBChRsV8maksZzw1.pdf
Contact Leonard at: [email protected]
