As children develop, they will need activities to practice their hand moments and strengthen their grip. Because our hands are one of our important parts of every day, it is essential to be able to encourage practice in children's motor skills. Crafts in general help with this as they require children to grip what they're using to move from one place to another.

A child's imagination is strongest when given the supplies to bring their thoughts into the real world. With the flexibility of pipe cleaners, it is easy for them to be able to mold it into objects they can play with or use to fill their universe. Whether they create something that is 3D or in 2D, pipe cleaners are useful tools that help bring children's imagination to life!

When making crafts, children are met with a lot of options that require decisions. What color should I use? Should I make the pipe cleaner smaller or keep it long? Where should this pipe cleaner attach to?

As they plan what their project is going to look like, children are developing their cognitive skills with decision making.

Bilateral Coordination is the act of using both hands at the same time. Because of the structure of pipe cleaners, it is necessary for children to have to grab it with both hands to mold it into a shape that they desire. This trains their motor skill further and teaches them how to use each hand independently.

Pipe cleaners bring creative ways of learning. For example, the image on the left shows a child learning numbers by using pipe cleaners and beads. They are associating how many beads go on the pipe cleaners with the number that is shown to them. This can also apply when learning the alphabet. Children can shape the pipe cleaners to different letters of the alphabet so they can understand how to form the letters without a pencil and paper.