Six no-kiln clay units. Free to download and teach.
Mapped to Cambridge Primary, IGCSE 0400 and IB MYP/DP, with session timings, gram-level quantities and assessment notes. Written for Malaysian classrooms — including honest drying times. No purchase required, and nothing here is a quotation.
The Art Teacher's Guidebook, 2026/27
Twenty-two pages written to be taught from, not filed. Tell us which year group you teach and we'll match the unit plan to it.
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Six ready-to-teach units, ages 5 to 18
Fossil impressions, pinch-pot pals, starry lanterns, relief tiles, standing planters and sculptural maquettes. Each unit gives you objectives, session timings, clay per student in grams, curriculum links in the language moderators use, an assessment note and a stretch task.
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Clay in the tropics — the page teachers say they needed
Real drying times by project weight, in air-conditioned and non-air-conditioned rooms. Why clay cracks and how to repair it. Storing opened packs in Malaysian heat. What to do when it goes wrong mid-lesson.
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Cost per student, printed
From RM 5.90 a student for a Year 1 unit. A whole primary term — three units — is RM 27.40 a student at the standard school rate. Plan a budget line without asking anyone for a quote.
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No kiln, no glaze, no firing
Every unit air-dries on a classroom shelf. Nothing here needs equipment your school does not already have.
Why we ask for your year group
So we can send the right unit plan rather than all six, and so that if you ever ask for an evaluation pack we portion the clay for your actual class size instead of guessing. That is the only reason. You will get the guidebook whether or not you tick the box below.
Classroom paperwork, already done
The two documents a department actually has to produce before a new material goes on a table.
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Risk assessment template — pre-filled
Eleven hazards with existing controls, risk ratings, space for your own site-specific controls, an action owner per row, a first-aid table and a sign-off block. In the standard six-column school format, editable, ready to adapt and file. Covers the things people forget — drying-shelf placement, sink traps, and the button batteries in Unit 3's LED tea lights.
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Two-page programme overview
The whole programme on two sides — six units with ages and year bands, what the free evaluation pack contains, and how it works. This is the one to forward to your head of department or drop into a budget submission; it carries no prices, so nothing in it goes stale.
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Editable assessment rubrics
One rubric per unit, in Word, so you can drop in your school's own descriptors and grade boundaries.
Safety documentation, in full
Everything your purchasing office will ask for, published rather than sent on request. Start with the one-page summary — it saves reading 23 pages of laboratory tables.
| Standard | What it covers | Result |
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| EN 71-1:2014 + A1:2018 | Safety of toys, Part 1 — mechanical and physical properties | PASS |
| EN 71-2:2020 | Safety of toys, Part 2 — flammability | PASS |
| EN 71-3:2019 + A1:2021 | Migration of certain elements. Tested at Category I and the stricter Category III, which assumes material can be scraped off and swallowed | PASS |
| ASTM F963-23 | US Standard Consumer Safety Specification on Toy Safety — surface coatings and substrate materials | PASS |
| Directive 2009/48/EC | EU Toy Safety Directive — CE marking, verified visible, legible and indelible on the pack | Conformant |
Tested by AIJU, Ibi, Alicante — EU notified body 6/LE016. Report L/0087786-1, issued 23 February 2024. Age labelled 3+, graded for testing at the stricter 24-month standard.
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Safety & compliance summary — read this first
One page in plain English: standards passed, every article number covered by colour and pack size, laboratory and dates, and the full document set for both clay and Plastilina.
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EC Declaration of Conformity — Air Dry Clay
Directive 2009/48/EC. Names all nine articles in the Malaysian range — White, Stone Grey and Natural Terracotta in 250 g, 500 g and 1 kg — and cites the test report below by number.
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AIJU test report — EN 71 and ASTM F963
The full laboratory report behind the table above.
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Safety data sheet — Air Dry Clay
Issued under EU Regulation 2020/878. Not classified as dangerous under CLP — no pictograms, no signal word, no hazard statements. A mixture of water, thickeners, mineral filler, pigments and preservatives, with no substances subject to EU workplace exposure limits.
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Safety data sheet — Plastilina
Vegetable-based, gluten free, never hardens. Also not classified as dangerous under CLP.
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Safety data sheet — Plastilina Pastel
For the pastel palette set used in the lower-primary units.
Need something that isn't here?
The EC Declaration of Conformity for Plastilina, and certificates for the modelling spatulas and the paints, are held by the manufacturer and we will get them for you — normally within a few working days. Email [email protected].
How long does air dry clay really take in Malaysia?
The pack says 24 to 48 hours. That is measured at about 23°C and 50% humidity — which is not a Malaysian afternoon.
A thin 150 g tile is usually ready in 24 hours. A 350 g pierced lantern or a 500 g planter wants 48 to 72 hours, and longer in a non-air-conditioned room during the monsoon. Plan the painting session for the lesson after next, not the next one.
The full guidance — real times by project weight, why clay cracks and how to repair it, storing opened packs in tropical heat, and why there needn't be any dust at all — is written up properly in the Journal. It is also the troubleshooting page inside the guidebook.
Read the full drying guide →Six units, mapped and costed
Ages first, because they travel across every curriculum. Cost per student is clay only, at the standard school rate.
| # | Unit | Ages | Year band | Clay | Per student |
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| 1 | Fossil impressions Texture, touch vocabulary, first clay contact | 5–8 | Years 1–3 · PYP · Grades K–2 | 150 g | RM 5.90 |
| 2 | Pinch-pot pals Form, joining, character | 8–10 | Years 3–4 · PYP · Grades 2–4 | 200 g | RM 7.80 |
| 3 | Starry lanterns Pierced forms — time it for Deepavali, Christmas or CNY | 10–12 | Years 5–6 · PYP · Grades 4–6 | 350 g | RM 13.70 |
| 4 | Relief tiles Peranakan tiles, Islamic geometry | 12–14 | Years 7–9 · MYP 1–3 · Grades 6–8 | 300 g | RM 11.70 |
| 5 | Standing planters The design cycle, iteration | 13–15 | Years 8–9 · MYP 3–4 · Grades 8–9 | 500 g | RM 19.60 |
| 6 | Sculptural maquettes AO1–AO4 evidence, exhibition piece | 14–18 | IGCSE 0400 · IB DP · Grades 9–12 | 500 g+ | RM 19.60+ |
A whole primary term — Units 1, 2 and 3 — is RM 27.40 per student, and needs 16.8 kg for a class of 24. Figures are 2026/27 material costs at the entry education tier, for planning only. Not a quotation.
Teaching one of these next term? We'll portion a pack for your class.
One kilogram of air dry clay colour-matched to your unit, a Plastilina pack, a modelling tool set and the printed unit plan — portioned for your class size, nothing to weigh out. No cost and no commitment; you teach it yourself and judge it on your own drying shelf. We portion twelve a term, because that is what our small team can properly follow through.
Planning lanterns for Deepavali on 8 November? Clay needs to reach you by mid-October, so it is worth talking in September.
We reply within one working day. JOVI has made art materials for children in Barcelona since 1939 — EN 71 / CE certified, sold in 80+ countries, school channel first. JM Brands Sdn Bhd is the sole Malaysian distributor.