Education World – Danielle Dravenstadt
“Give a child a mound of cold, squishy clay, and suddenly a world of shapes, textures, characters, stories, experiments, and inventions will soon be revealed. This is what I witnessed when I first gave my kindergarten art students Play-Doh, and what I see each time I allow my students to make art in this medium more often associated with the playroom than the classroom. What I first expected to be light activity now leads my students to serious investigations of what familiar materials can represent and opened my eyes to the profound thinking and learning that takes place when children play.”(more)