Tools of the Trade

These pretend tools promote hands-on learning! Kids build thinking skills, fine motor coordination, and imaginations as they sculpt Crayola® Model Magic®.

1. What tools do carpenters, mechanics, plumbers, or adults in your house use? Ask a grownup to show you hammers, wrenches, screwdrivers, or other handy tools.

2. Create your own play tool set with Crayola Model Magic. Add color to the modeling compound with Crayola Washable Markers. Experiment with mixing two or more marker colors to get the colors you want for each tool. Knead and blend colors with your fingers.

3. Roll and pull the colorful modeling compound into your own tools. Seal seams by pinching the model magic together. Dry.

4. For more fun, invent new tools and uses for them. Or make a Model Magic tool box to store your new toys.

Adult supervision is required for any arts & crafts project. Observe children closely and intervene as necessary to prevent potential safety problems and ensure appropriate use of arts and crafts materials. Some craft items, particularly beads and buttons, are potential choking hazards for young children. Avoid use of such small parts with children younger than 3 years. Craft items such as scissors, push pins and chenille sticks may have sharp points or edges. Avoid use of materials with sharp points by children younger than 4 years. Read all manufacturers' safety warnings before using arts and craft supplies.

Crayola Modeling Materials including Crayola Model Magic®, and Model Magic Fusion™, Crayola Air-Dry Clay, and Crayola Dough—

• Keep away from open flames. Do not use to make candleholders, hot plates, trivets, or other similar objects that will be used or placed near fire and other heat sources.
• Do not put in an oven, microwave, or kiln.
• Do not make into vessels/containers that will hold unpackaged food.
• The use of modeling material to make items that look like food is discouraged for children younger than age 5 to avoid their confusion with real food.
• Unless sealed with a water-resistant glaze, do not make projects exposed to or immersed in water, such as boats or outdoor bird feeders. They would disintegrate when exposed to moisture.
• Crayola Dough—contains gluten (wheat flour) as an ingredient.
• Crayola Air-Dry Clay, Crayola Model Magic and Model Magic Fusion are gluten-free. However, they are produced on the same machinery as Crayola Dough which does contain gluten. Although the machines are cleaned prior to the start of each production run, there is a slight possibility that trace amounts of gluten from Crayola Dough may be present in the other modeling compound products. For information regarding specific ingredients or allergic concerns, please call our Consumer Affairs department at 1-800-272-9652 weekdays between 9 AM and 4 PM Eastern Standard Time.

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What Inspires Your Art?

Wish Charms

Crafts

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• Markers
• Model Magic®

"Kids had fun making tools and pretending to fix things. They can name every tool in the toolbox now."
Cristofer T., teenage babysitter.

"Our kids invented tools to help tie their shoes and hold mittens open for them! What ingenuity!"
Darwyn O., family child care provider.

The industrial revolution of the 18th and 19th centuries produced different types of tools. Because England had a large workforce, that country developed tools that helped laborers do their jobs better. In the United States, which had a shortage of labor, tools and machines were designed to take the place of workers.