Calming Activities: Clay - Ages 3+

For some reason, my son really takes to sitting down playing with clay.   It is one of the few things that no matter what, I can put out and he will really get engrossed in it.

I believe a lot of it has to do with the tactile part of it; the fact that he can move it, bend it, mold it...it gives his hands a lot to do and therefore his body is less apt to be motoring around.

He appears to be making little fighting men or aliens out of it...he smashes them around and almost has some sort of imaginary world.  It is amazing.  I only wish I had taken stock out in Rose Art Modeling Clay company.