Generally speaking, there is no specific form and style of sand tools, the introduction of China's box court therapy, Beisi Normal University doctoral supervisor, Professor Zhang Risheng, in the psychological sand tray teacher must read books "box court therapy" wrote "must be prepared for the toys humanoid, animals, trees, flowers, various vehicles, boats, flying objects, buildings, bridges, railings, stones, monsters, etc.". ". Jointly with Professor Zhang Risheng *** with the research and development of 10 categories of 57 small categories of localized psychological sand tools suitable for the actual psychological work in China. In the later statistics, it was found that among the many types of sand tools visitors most often use 4 types - architectural, figures, animals and plants. These 4 types of sand tools often symbolize a person's personality state, mental mask and life state, and are frequently used by various visitors.
The sand tray is the basic tool for sand tray therapy. Different sand tools in the sand tray have different symbolic meanings, and visitors express their deepest subconscious through arranging the sand tools, and ultimately obtain psychotherapy with the accompaniment of the sand tray therapist. Sand tools are important tools for visitors to express themselves, and are an important part of the psychological sand tray product.
Professor Zhang Risheng also mentioned that the preparation of sand toys is not a one-day process, and after the basic sand toys have been equipped, the sand therapist needs to gradually increase the number of toys to improve them, "some toys may be randomly made, while others are collected or purchased through various ways".