Safe and easy to use, this tub of coloured stuff may be the inspiration for the next Michealangelo. For the more serious and sophisticated sculptor, quick drying modelling clays may be more appropriate. These usually harden in approximately one hour, and can be painted for added visual excitement. Not everyone, however, is so artistically inclined. There are plenty of options that are less abstract and more functional.
Jewellery is one example.
Beads of all shapes, sizes and colours are stocked by the jar-full waiting to be made into bracelets, earrings, necklaces and rings. There are even jewellery-making kits that come with wire, hooks and other tools of the trade. Fabric painting is another applied art, enjoyed by both artists and crafts folk. Fabric paints come in a variety of mediums, from crayons and acrylic pens, to tubes of shiny sparkling liquid. If free form is not your child's forte, Sky Catchers, plastic stain glass molds, are fun and bright.