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Help Students with Clay and Sand Therapy, Using Evidence-Based Models

Help me give my students evidence-based therapeutic sessions in Clay Field Therapy, Sand Tray Therapy, and Play Therapy, using clay, sand trays, researched toys, and art. The supplies will be transported to students at two elementary schools.

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Dekine's classroom raised $862

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Clay Field Therapy® is touch therapy. The haptic sense of touch is the most fundamental of human experiences. Love, but also violence, is primarily communicated through touch. Our skin boundary become invaded through inappropriate touching, accidents, and medical procedures. The vast majority of traumatic memories involve touch.

As the hands touch the clay they will remember these formative, implicit experiences.

The smooth texture, weight, and resistance of the clay will evoke attachment patterns, developmental setbacks, and traumatic events. This does not occur in a cognitive way, but as learned action patterns and felt sensations. In a safe and supportive setting, the hands of students will find their way out of restriction, collapse, and frozen fear into growing trust and fulfillment, because the clay has the unique ability to feedback on any contact we make with it. Initially, clients’ hands may expect something cold, unavailable, or disgusting because this was their experience in the past, but almost inevitably they will search for increasingly reliable contact, balance in the relationship with the material, and self-fulfillment through it.

The therapeutic focus is neither on symptoms nor on the story of what happened but on the innate urge to find a more adequate response to the world at hand. In this way the encounter at the clay field allows us to gradually rewrite our biography. Clay Field Therapy® is deeply therapeutic, particularly for children with learning and behavioral difficulties – and for traumatized adults.

Sandplay therapy is a nonverbal, therapeutic intervention that makes use of a sandbox, toy figures, and sometimes water, to create scenes of miniature worlds that reflect a person’s inner thoughts, struggles, and concerns. This is a form of play therapy. Sandplay is practiced along with talk therapy, using the sandbox and figures as communication tools.

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Georgetown, SC
Grades 3-5
Mental Health
Traditional School
Art Supplies
Nearly all students from low‑income households

Ms. Dekine Plantersville Elementary School Grades 3-5

Celebrate Black teachers and kids! This project supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of students are Black.

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Nearly all students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

30 students impacted 14donors

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Materials Cost Quantity Total

Play Therapy Sandtray Premium Portable Starter Kit • Amazon Business $279.99 1 $279.99

PlayTherapySupply Basic Wooden Sandtray with Lid • Amazon Business $134.99 1 $134.99

Joyooss Art Easel for Kids Easel for Toddlers, Adjustable Standing Wooden Toddler Easels Kids Magnetic Double Sided Whiteboard & Chalkboard, Art Easel for Kids Age 2-4 4-8 9-12 Toddler Art Easel Kid • Amazon Business $76.49 1 $76.49

Play Therapy with Children and Adolescents in Crisis (Clinical Practice with Children, Adolescents, and Families) • Amazon Business $39.00 1 $39.00

Kinetic Sand, Folding Sand Box with 2lbs of All-Natural, 7 Molds and Tools, Play Sand Sensory Toys for Kids Ages 3 and up • Amazon Business $34.99 1 $34.99

Blick Stoneware Clay - 50 lb • Blick Art Materials $28.18 1 $28.18

Paper Roll White 30 In X 50 Ft • Ward's Science $18.40 1 $18.40

Apple Barrel, Vibrant Spectrum Collection Acrylic Craft Paint, PROMOABIII, 2 fl oz each, 16 assorted matte colors, 16 count • Amazon Business $15.97 1 $15.97

12 Pcs Mud Sponges for Clay Cleanup and Shaping Tools Sponges for Pottery Clay Ceramic Artists, Blue Yellow White (0.31 Inch Thick) • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99

Materials cost			$638.00
Vendor shipping charges			$9.95
Sales tax			$44.98
3rd party payment processing fee			$9.57
Fulfillment labor & materials			$30.00
Total project cost			$732.50
Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms			$129.26
Total project goal			$861.76
How we calculate what's needed
Total project goal			$861.76
9 Donors			-$415.53
Donations toward project cost			-$379.30
Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms			-$36.23
match offer			-$415.53
Match offer toward project cost			-$353.20
Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms			-$62.33
Excluded support for DonorsChoose			-$30.71
Still needed View calculation Hide calculation			$0.00

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Help Students with Clay and Sand Therapy, Using Evidence-Based Models

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