This week at Inner Discovery Camp, I followed an exercise described by Lucia Cappachione in her book Living with Feeling where you use red clay as a medium for working with feelings.  The kids submerged their hands in warm water and then held a substantial piece of red clay in their hands and began to work it around.  They could do anything that felt right with it:  punch it, squeeze it, press it, drop it or squish it.  Then I asked them if they could close their eyes and just let their hands and fingers work it into some kind of shape without worrying what it might look like.  Let the clay become the feeling or anything else it wants to become.  I had never used this kind of clay before and I really liked the experience and I think the children did too.  It is very satisfying to work the clay - it can really handle any intensity level.  Look forward to doing this more.  Here is some of what emerged.