In recent years, ultra-light clay has entered the field of children's education as a new kind of non-toxic, tasteless and easy formation handmade material. So, how does ultralight clay affect children's education?

 

1. Observing children's intellectual growth through manual activities

 

  As we all know, Children's drawing ability before 3 years old is mainly manifested as "graffiti", but children with early intellectual development can use symbols to draw people at 2 years old. And if a 6-year-old draws the same picture as a 3-year-old, he is still a 3-year-old. From this point of view, it is important to understand the children, because it not only enables us to recognize the children's own level of painting, but also helps us to find the children's expressive force and other problems. Art educators divide children's personal growth characteristics into seven observation points: wisdom growth, emotion growth, social growth, perception growth, aesthetic growth,and  creative growth. According to the process and content of children's creation, we can observe and analyze the situation of children's growth, and understand the characteristics of children's growth from the comparison of children of the same age. We can also see this in the super clay formation activity.

2.Peeping into the inner world of children through pinching ultra-light clay activity

 

Children's manual activity itself is a children's game, and it is also a kind of creative activity. They are squeezing the figure only for their happy, and do not consider whether need to make a "work". They use a pinch to vent their emotions, their problems and issues, and express their happy mood and things too. The role of kneading dough figurine is through the vent to keep children's psychological balance and to improve the harmonious development of body and mind.

 

Therefore, it can be said that children’s kneading ultra-light clay activity is a window for us to understand children. From their activities, we can understand their cognitive ability, their emotions, mood, personality, interests and hobbies, so as to further care their healthy growth.

3.Understanding of children's personality and hobbies through the manual 

 

People often say that the characters like the person. In fact, the activity of kneading super clay can also reflect the person's personality and hobbies. Children express their thoughts, emotions and interests by making clay. Clay works are the feelings that children show through observation, experience and thinking in their life. Parents should understand and respect their creations, and should not measure children's works from the perspective of adults. We could often hear parents said that children pinch things out of proportion, unlike the truly object, and this can only show that some of our parents do not understand their children, also do not understand their heart.