10 ways to play…with air drying clay!
by Clare Thompson
Creating characters
2. Building small worlds
3. Making bricks for construction or transient art
4. A surface for transient art and mark-making
5. Colour and texture experimentation with powder paint/pigments, gravel and natural materials
6. Decorations made with pressed flowers or sea glass
7. Experimentation with metal loose parts
8. Creating snails with shells (or stones/conkers)
9. Decorating fancy Gingerbread Men
10. Miniature pretend baking
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