It’s really dirty. It’s kind of brown. It’s kind of cold, too. It smells good. It puts mud on us. It is hard to squish. If you tear off pieces, it’s easy to squish. It’s very, very sticky, and it’s very, very messy! It’s easy to stack pieces because it’s sticky. A ball of clay on a piece of waxed paper, no cookie cutters, no tools. At first the children were confused—what are we supposed to do with it? I respond: What do you want to do with it? Smell it. Touch it. What does i