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This study utilizes sandplay experiments as a means to analyze the development of 4 and 5 year old kindergarten children's creative spatial organization of toys. The children were asked to arrange several toys in a box filled with sand, and they were told to play in the sand box and with the toys freely. The researchers were able to identify and classify the children's developmental steps in the creation and recognition of their spatial organization of the toys. These steps ranged from the simple displacement of the toys in the box to more complex arrangements where meaningful spatial relationships between the toys were established.

Adults' sandplay works gender, and cultural background releases archetypical spatial images. In this study, we will discuss when cultural difference appears and their significance. Sandplay experiments were realized with Japanese and Brazilian children and analyzed according to the direction, the position, and the order the toys were placed in the box, and how long the children played. Japanese children's sandplay works expressed a sense of unity with the surrounding world in contrast to Brazilian children's sandplay works that from an early age separate themselves from the world and had an autonomous tendency.