I'd recommend fidgeting with LEGO (or LEGOs, which is a hotly-contested debate about how you properly refer to LEGO bricks, plural) for just about anything.
It helps, it heals, and it hurts to not have enough time in the day for more LEGO innovations.
Here's
a bit of history:
Lego (trademarked in capitals as LEGO) is a line of construction toys manufactured by the Lego Group, a privately held company based in Billund, Denmark. The toys were originally designed in the 1940s in Europe and have achieved an international appeal, with an extensive subculture that supports Lego movies, games, video games, competitions, and four Lego themed amusement parks.
The Lego Group began in the workshop of Ole Kirk Christiansen, a carpenter from Billund, Denmark, who began making wooden toys in 1932. In 1934 his company came to be called Lego. The company name Lego was coined by Christiansen from the Danish phrase leg godt, which means "play well". The name could also be interpreted as "I put together" and "I assemble" in Latin, though this would be a somewhat forced application of the general sense "I collect; I gather; I learn"; the word is most used in the derived sense "I read".
The Lego Group's motto is "kun det bedste er godt nok", which means 'only the best is good enough'. This motto was created by Ole Kirk to encourage his employees never to skimp on quality, a value he believed in strongly. The motto is still used within the company today.
The modern Lego brick was patented on January 28, 1958; bricks from that year are still compatible with current bricks.
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and a visual inspiration for thee:
A LEGO Sea.
by EgnaroorangE