plasticine

Soft sculpting material

Plasticine is a soft, pliable modeling material that doesn't harden or dry out, used especially by children and for animation models.

Unlike clay, it remains workable indefinitely: The kids spent hours shaping plasticine animals.

The word derives from the brand name but is now used generically for any similar non-drying modeling compound. (Capitalized Plasticine is the trademark.)

generic

clay

Moldable earth for ceramics

shaping · molding · soft · pliable · moldable · workable · flexible · shapeable · squish · knead

childhood

play

Recreation or staged drama

  • toysObjects for amusement
  • funAmusement or pleasure
  • colorfulFull of varied hues

imagination · pretend · creative · preschool · tactile · sensory · mess · rainbow · craft · activity

Categories
Opposites
material permanence

plasticineearthenware

Low-temperature fired pottery

stoneware · porcelain · concrete · bronze · terra cotta

material composition

plasticinenatural clay

Unrefined sedimentary soil material

mud · soil · mineral · organic matter

rigidity/malleability

plasticinestone

Solid earth fragment

rock · marble · granite · metal · steel

Phrases
Family

plasticity, plasticizer, plasticize, plasticizers, plasticized, plasticines, plasticizes

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G