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Sarcastic but within it still lies a really good point. You can go for the 'fast food' toy options - Premade, pre-themed with little scope for emergent play. Or

Sarcastic but within it still lies a really good point. You can go for the 'fast food' toy options - Premade, pre-themed with little scope for emergent play. Or you can go for free-form play materials with no initial set theme, but you should also layer on some scene-setting (aka 'parenting') to help your child get into the creative play mindset. Just plonking the materials down doesn't work if kids are currently primed for the fast food toy stuff. So a direct answer to "where can I get plasticine clay avengers characters for my kids?" is 'from raw plasticine and maybe half an hour of parenting assistance'. Then you leave them to it.

pmoriarty 8y ago
Parent assistance, while doubtlessly well-intentioned, is really tricky, as it could unintentionally act to inhibit creativity instead of foster it, as the child tries to copy the parent and work within the often unconscious parameters and restrictions the parent sets rather than going wherever their own vision and desire leads them. I'm not sure if I'd plop a pile of clay in front of a child as an answer to their desire for some action figure, even with my own guidance to help them make it. I'd give clay as its own completely independent gift, perhaps with the only guidance being that they can "make anything with it" and only if the kid struggles to do anything, asks for help, or just forgets about the clay for a long time would I even consider trying to give more guidance than that.