Crayola® Dough is a soft, colorful, non-toxic modeling material that is ready to use right from the bucket. Creating with Crayola® dough is an inviting experience because of its vibrant colors and pleasant smell. Its smooth consistency is easy for small hands to manipulate and texture, and the soft, non-sticky feel and easy joining characteristic encourage children's sustained involvement. Crayola dough washes easily from most surfaces.

Note: for permanent objects, allow finished pieces to air dry for several days. Cracks characteristic of dough products appear as pieces dry. Do not dry dough in a microwave oven or kiln.

Techniques

Manipulate the dough with your hands. Try shaping, pinching, poking, patting, pulling and rolling. Join Crayola dough pieces to make figures, animals, food models and other objects.

Shape and texture Crayola dough with simple tools, such as a rolling pin or dowel, combs, pencils and plastic utensils, or press into the dough with textured surfaces.

Experiment with mixing colors. Start by mixing two of the primary dough colors (red, blue and yellow) together to make secondary colors (orange, green, and purple).

Use plastic knives and scissors to cut shapes from a flat slab of dough that has been rolled out with a dowel or rolling pin. Add texture and/or firmly press other shapes onto slab cutouts to decorate them. Use a pencil to open hanging holes at the top of ornaments, pendants and medallions that will be allowed to dry.

Embed 3-dimensional objects such as buttons into Crayola dough pieces that will be allowed to dry.

Make coils by rolling out snake-like pieces of Crayola dough on a flat surface or between your hands. Layer the coils and press them snugly together to build pots and other compact structures.

Create beads. Roll pieces of dough into balls or cut a coil into equal size pieces. Flatten, texture or roll coil pieces into balls if desired. Use a pencil or nail to open large holes for stringing, then allow beads to dry thoroughly before stringing on yarn. Make multi-colored coils by rolling two or more Crayola dough colors together. Use as suggested for coils or beads (above).