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Crayola 57-4415 Model Magic Modeling Compound, 2-lb. Bucket, Asstd Colors, Four 8-oz. Pouches

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Crayola Model Magic is an excellent product. It comes in tubs of plain white or assorted colors. You can also buy them by the pack. Most craft stores carry this item. So, if you can't get it here, try your local store. I have to warn you that this product carries a lot of bounce once it dries. During a Cub Scout meeting, several boys made small to medium-sized balls. The bigger balls bounced a good four feet off the ground. The smaller ones bounced even higher. If you have any breakables in the house and your kids make a ball, send them outside to play with it.

I like both the white and the assorted colors. With the assorted colors, you can mix them together to create a marbelized effect. I thought that was neat. With the white, you can paint your project or use any kind of markers to color your masterpieces any way you'd like. It's not as limiting as the colored clay.

My kids spent two hours playing with this stuff the other day. My only complaint is that Model Magic breaks easily. Let's say you make a clay elephant with a delicate trunk. You can rip that trunk off with a tug; however, you can run the broken piece under the tap for a minute, then glue it back on. You can't hide the crack, though.

I would recommend Model Magic over Play-Doh, which is messy beyond belief, or regular modeling clay, which can be tough for small hands to work with.

My kids love this stuff. Its squishy like soft foam, molds easily, actually sticks to itself (unlike the new version of playdough), and best yet...it dries to become harder and more resiliant...great for making dollie cups, bowls, furniture, googly monsters, and much more. It works great with cookie cutters because the stuff doesn't stick to anything but itself. It is water soluble and washes out easily if it gets caught in a bunch of spilled water. Actually water is its big downfall...it will turn to mush if it contacts water...however you can use this to your advantage when it becomes somewhat dried out. Just wet it slightly under a faucet for a microsecond and then kneed it back and forth to regain its original fun consistency. Once its air dried, water doesn't affect it much. If you want to return something that has dried back to the original squishy state, simply leave out on a plate on the porch when it is raining or on an extra humid day for several hours. Cleanup is the best part of this stuff. It doesn't crumble like play dough and the kids seem to make a fraction of the overall mess.

The only downside is that it dries out after a couple hours of play and you either have to renew it with the water trick or trash it. If you mix all the colors together, you end up with a red/brown color.

Its been a great addition to the "art" supply stuff at home.

This stuff is incredible. It's a soft, clean, dry "clay" that molds easily and dries to be as lightweight as styrofoam. For clay animation, its very useful for creating props or parts of puppets that need mass. Since its so much lighter than modeling clay, you can build up your puppet with Model magic first. Then once its dry you can costume the puppet and cover the exposed areas in clay. A tip: plasticine modeling clay doesn't stick to dry Model Magic very well. Wrap a sheet of tinfoil over the Model magic first to make a "skin" that the clay sticks to securely. You can also paint it or color it with regular markers.

Note: very thin pieces of Model magic break off of dry sculptures. Avoid making long extended pieces from your sculpture, unless you can put wire inside, like a chenille stem.

My kids have alot of fun with this spongy clay. They love mixing up new colors and creating figures that even float in the tub. I like that it doesn't have an odor and doesn't make much of a mess.

One bad thing (as it is with most modeling clays)is that little pieces (like attached eyes and noses), after the figures have dried, fall off really easily. Otherwise, the figures are pretty durable.

Our kids just love this. It is clean, easy to use, and lightweight. An added bonus . . . a ball made with Crayola Model Magic will bounce very well when dry. Downsides: When dry, it is still full of air, so creations are still a bit delicate to rough play - found this out the hard way! Also, even at Amazon's prices, this is a lot of money to spend for a consumable product. We will buy this again, but we will buy playdough more often because of its affordability.

This has got to be one of the best child's sculpting clay-like substances available. Our 8-year old played with this stuff at his art camp last summer and it was an instant success. Throughout the week, it was his absolutely most favorite thing to work with. We got him this bucket so that he could keep working with this at home and his creativity really showed through -- not only with the four basic colors but mixing them to make all the colors of the rainbow. He has now now worked through 3-4 buckets of this and his projects are consistently getting better, more interesting, and more complex as he learns to think ahead through the sculpting process.

The stuff is clean, does not smell, cleans up easily, and works well with fingers and tools. It will retain its pliancy for a long time in the bucket --- which means that it does take a while to lose its softness and stiffen up into a final product. On the whole, we highly, highly recommend this.

crayola model magic is a fantastic product. easy to use. does not make a mess. dries into a light, foam structure you can paint and decorate. i love using it with my children. great for helping children create their own gifts.

It is fun to play with and It can be used to do projects for school. You can also put it in the microvave(but not for too long or it will burn) if it is going hard.

My child received this for christmas last year and loves it. I have had to buy more. We create animals, make letters, we made a volcano. She will sit and create on her own. My child likes doing crafts and creating things, so this may not be for every child. It feels different from play-doh and does not have a smell like play-doh. Other reviewers said they had to use the package up in one day. I rolled the package up to close it, clipped it with a clothes pin, put it back in the container and ours stayed fresh. We keep ours in the house.

I bought this last year to make easy handprints of the children I cared for as a keepsake for the parents. I found I had two bags left over and gave it to my girls to play with. I have an 8 yr old and a 6 yr old. THEY LOVE IT! They've made *cookies* with it and animal sculptures in full detail. It get their creativity going, it's easy to use and doesn't crumble when it dries. I'm going to order another bucket at their request.