It's news that will have Gromit barking in excitement. Children inspired by the Wallace & Gromit films are leading a revival of Plasticine. It had been enjoyed by generations of youngsters but nearly ...

Plasticine is cheap,’ Henry Hudson says, pulling open a cupboard to reveal stacks of the plastic-wrapped, candy-coloured modelling clay. ‘It’s oil-based, so you can mix the colours like paint, and ...

The world's biggest and most complex Plasticine garden designed by Top Gear presenter James May is one of the few entrants at the Royal Horticultural Society show not to win an official award. However ...

For many of us plasticine is a toy from our childhood which helped shape our growing imaginations. Most of us got no further than creating a featureless blob with disproportionate limbs and probably ...

WE were keeping some snails (Helix pomatia} without food, under a bell-jar with a wide tubulure at the top ; in the tubulure was a cork bearing a thermometer. We found that the snails ate the cork, so ...