Plasticine, a brand of modelling clay, is a putty-like modelling material made from calcium salts, petroleum jelly and aliphatic acids. Most of children like to play this kind of toys, because plasticine can be made into any shape you like. When children play with this toy, they can promote their imagination, for they can use the material to make anything they have imaged. For we know that children’s perception is different from our adults, we can see what their world were through what they have made.
Plasticine is often used in clay animation. This technique is popularly known as Claymation in the US, and is a form of stop motion animation. Plasticine is appealing to animators because it can be used with ease: it is mouldable enough to create a character, flexible enough to allow that character to move in many ways, dense enough that it can retain its shape easily when combined with a wire armature, and does not melt under hot studio lighting.
We can see in the shops or the internet that plasticine has many different colors and package, so they also have different functions. Many of them are soft, or some others are harder than others. Different packages have different material.
In the stage of growing up, all kids like to play with anything they can get, and they will feel happy to play with them, such as books, food and anything like these. So it is very important to give children a kind of toy that can educate can, which can promote their intellectuality, emotional and physical development. Educational toys, are typically built for and used by children. One could make the argument that an educational toy is actually any toy. Most children are constantly interacting with and learning about the world. This definition is ultimately too broad because one could make the same argument about a rock or a stick as it is not uncommon to see a child play with almost anything nearby. So we claim educational toys to the one that enhance intellectual, social, emotional, and/or physical development. For children have different perception or reality of the toy’s value.
With the development of the world now, more toys are designed with the child's education and development in mind today than ever before. More and more parents pay much attention on their children’s education from their childhood. They grow more sensitive to the real or perceived development needs of children. So the toy manufacturers seek to make toys that meet the needs of these parents. An educational toy can teach a child about a particular subject or can help a child develop a particular skill. The key difference is the child's learning and development associated with interacting with the toy.
Some parents prefer the use of fewer and less complex toys. Instead, real objects, and participating in real activities, can be used along-side a child's imagination.
With different educational toys can help children promote their thinking methods while playing them. It becomes more and more popular.
