What is PlayMais?

PlayMais^® is a natural, versatile craft material for children, which is 100% biodegradable and therefore harmless to the environment. It is made from maize, water and food colouring.

• PlayMais^® sticks together with a tiny dab of water
• PlayMais^® can be shaped easily with the fingers
• PlayMais^® helps develop fine motor skills
• PlayMais^® encourages creative thinking
• PlayMais^® aids your childs creative development
• PlayMais^® is educational
• PlayMais^® is a natural product and is environmentally friendly
• PlayMais^® is easy and fun

Contrary to many toys currently in the marketplace, all development and production of PlayMais^®takes place in Germany. Furthermore the environmental sustainability of PlayMais^® is not just a theory. It truly sets new standards for intelligent stewardship of the available resources of our planet!

What Can I do with PlayMais?

PlayMais^®, can do it all! You can reshape, squeeze, cut, roll and rip it, and much more: PlayMais^® offers endless modelling opportunities! PlayMais stick to each other, and to many different types of surfaces, simply by making them moist with a little water - no glue required.

You can click the following pictures to see how these models were made step by step.

PlayMais^® - natural and meaningful learning games

Development of social skills:

• Since PlayMais^® is ideal for use with large groups of children, it supports the development of social behavior in groups.
• PlayMais^® natural play method strengthens the ability to problem solve.
• The simple playing and crafting of PlayMais^® ensures rapid success for every child’s experiences.

Physical Development:

• The transition from two dimensional to three-dimensional creativity occurs rapidly, once children start interacting with PlayMais^®.
• Development of colour recognition and ability to think and adapt all the time.
• Improve the perception of how form and shape work.
• Improves touch and dexterity by the development of motor skills.

Educational development:

• With PlayMais^® children will be introduced with guidance in a playful way to letters and numbers.
• PlayMais^® is loved by children, as it allows them to quickly and easily produce impressive models!
• PlayMais^® encourages focused play, therefore helping to develop a child's attention.
• Development of creativity

Free decoration cards

As a template for crafting with PlayMais^® - the decoration cards will be open in a new window as a PDF file.

                   

MOSAIC decoration cards

PlayMais^® Crafting Book

This book contains information on the amount of necessary PlayMais^®, a colour suggestion and many pictograms that show the recommended approach step by step.

Open PDF document for printing* (File size: 54 MB)