KNETMATZ is a soft and easily pliable moulding material for children of pre-school age.

It comes in yellow, red and blue colours. All colours can be mixed together, so that even small children learn how colours are created. The material consists of water, flour, salt, alum, cooking oil and food colouring.

To prolong your enjoyment of the moulding material, we recommend that you keep the material in a jar or box after use. You also can put the material into the freezer and just take it out, if you would like to use it! It doesn´t become hard – it will be still pliable. AND: you can use it as a cool pack! If you don´t want to freeze and refreeze KNETMATZ, you should take care that KNETMATZ is regularly pounded (once a week is sufficient) to maintain its supple consistency. The more often KNETMATZ is used, the slower the material will dry out in the air.

But you can also model something and let it to dry out deliberately (for example, fruit for the grocery shop, door notices, Christmas decorations). You must make sure that the dough dries slowly (do not put it on a heater, this will remove moisture too quickly and the "work of art" will shrivel up). After it has dried, the finished product can be varnished, which will bring out a sparkle in all the colours, and you are left with pretty little presents or figures to play with.

By the way, dried-out KNETMATZ dough can still be used as chalk!

The RASSELMATZ is a sound memory with many ways of being played. To help increase acoustic perceptions, the RASSELMATZ is a bonus for the nursery, special needs school, pre-school, infant school and music school, as well as for logopaedic and ergotherapeutic practices.

In addition the RASSELMATZ is a valuable aid for parents and teachers in observing the developing hearing abilities of their children in their first years, and in identifying any possible impairments at an early stage.

The RASSELMATZ has two important features: on the one hand the child learns to listen out for a pair, from six different sounds, and put them together, and on the other hand, if abstract thinking and talking are already developed, learns to identify and name the sounds. In doing this, the child's acoustic senses are developed in a playful manner. Some of the tins produce nuanced broadband noises (100 – 8000 Hz) which are very similar because they don't have any marked frequency characteristics or noticeable spectral features. Only by training the hearing can they be distinguished from one another. One help in identifying them is the varying degree of loudness in the noises (between 50 and 85 Db/SPL at a distance of 1 m).

The RASSELMATZ consists of 12 optically identical tins = 6 noise pairs, and many ideas for games, in a high-quality beechwood case. You can increase the selection of sounds as you please, by sending in your own sound media, which we will then send back to you in RASSELMATZ sealed tins.

The FÜHLMATZ has been designed to help tactile perception at primary school and pre-school levels, as well as for therapeutic purposes in logopaedia, ergotherapy and in psychomotor practice. The FÜHLMATZ , like the RASSELMATZ, is great fun for able and disabled children, and can therefore be used very effectively in inclusive teaching institutions. The FÜHLMATZ consists of 12 identical material bags containing six different materials, and you have to sort the bags into pairs by feeling their contents.

But the FÜHLMATZ offers a whole range of ideas for different games. You can play at guessing and naming the contents of the bags by feeling them with your hands, or with your feet. Or several players can sit in a circle on the ground and throw the FÜHLMATZ bags to each other. Whoever catches a bag must guess what is inside. The contents of the FÜHLMATZ are similar to those of the RASSELMATZ, and can be played with together to promote the perceptive senses more intensively! You can feel a bag, for example, and try and match it acoustically to the corresponding RASSELMATZ tin. The FÜHLMATZ bags are packed in a bag of the same colour. The colour of material is dependent on availability.