Astronaut craft made of Playdoh for kids

We have another craft for you, as always it will be made of playdoh. This time we will model an astronaut.

For making this crafts we’ll need:
- The board for modeling
- Blue playdoh
- Red playdoh
- Yellow playdoh
- Green playdoh
- Orange playdoh
- Black playdoh
- Brown playdoh
- Purple playdoh
- White playdoh

How to model the astronaut?

1. Make a square head. In the middle of the front part of the head stick oval illuminator made of white playdoh, and put a thin red border around the illuminator. In order the astronaut could hear, stick the headphones made of black playdoh on both sides of the head.

2. Make a rectangular body. Attach an orange pad to the body, and stick multi-colored control knobs to it.

3. Attach the head to the body.

4. Modeling the hands. Roll ten balls of the same size from the playdoh of different colors. Five balls for one hand and five balls to the other hand. Flatten the balls between the thumb and the forefinger to turn them into the flat cakes. Combine the flat cakes with each other to get the hands. Stick your hands to the body.

5. Modeling the feet. As you probably have already guessed, looking at the picture of the astronaut, we make the feet like hands, and also stick them to the body. Now we are ready to fly to cosmos.

That's all; the astronaut craft made of playdough is ready. Now, call your kid and try to model your own astronaut. You can do it.

Modeling from playdoh is very useful for the child, because it promotes the development of creative thinking, imagination, small motor skills.

These are just some of the ways to use the playdoh for kids. Of course, you can come up with many other crafts. The child will tell you a lot of interesting ideas to use the playdoh, if he gets such great material for craft as the playdoh!
Also it is useful, because it gives the fingers muscle training. Especially, when they have to spread it over the surface or pinch off small pieces. The crafts with the playdoh develop fine motor skills of the hands, preparing them for school loads. And remember, frequent usage of the playdoh develops perseverance and accuracy.