Clown Craft Made of Playdoh

Playdoh is easy to make at home, and fun for kids of all ages. It is used by children as a material for crafts. The usage of the playdoh contributes to the development of finger coordination. And of course, such creative work requires safe playdoh.

Modeling, using playdoh, is not only fun and exciting, but also a very useful exercise for kids. Like any other creative exercise, it develops the artistic taste and imagination. It requires precision and patience, so it also develops the willpower and perseverance, which is a great training for the increased hyperactivity of children. And finally, because the kids use the fingers actively, they develop the coordination of small hands and promote the development of fine motor skills, which in turn has a positive effect on speech development of the child.

Today we are going to make a clown out of playdoh, but it will be unusual clown made on the sheet of paper.
So, you will need a piece of paper (if you find a pasteboard, it’ll be even better), the playdoh itself, and two toy eyes. These eyes can be bought in stores. And we took the eyes from an old book.

First of all, my daughter rolled the ball from yellow playdoh and made a pancake, flattening a ball on a sheet of paper. After that she stuck the eyes, cheeks in the form of flat cakes, the nose and the mouth. Together we made a clown hat. And we've got such a funny and amusing face. At first glance it seems very simple, but for the child it is like science. While modeling, we repeat the colors and geometric shapes, for example the clown’s face is a round, the nose is a ball, and the hat is a triangle. Also we call the colors and the parts of the face in different languages.

Of course, you can make the dough for modeling yourself. There are a lot of recipes for making the dough. We offer the following recipe of dough for modeling as an example. Take a glass of flour, half a glass of salt, less than half a glass of water and blend the ingredients until smooth. If the dough is short, add some water, but if it strongly sticks to the hands, add the flour. In order to make colored dough for modeling, you can add the food colorings.

We will be glad, if you share your recipe of dough for sculpting. Recipes can be left in the comments.