7 year old who will not stop throwing things

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I have a 7 year old non-verbal son who will not stop throwing things - mostly his toys.

Mostly it consists of:

Rollowing a car off the counter to hear it hit the floor
Throwing something against the couch to have it fall to the floor
throwing a box just because it is there

We are loosing our minds and have no idea what to do other then remove every single thing from the toy box and only leave one toy. I have no idea what to do - the teachers seem to be convinced this is his way of stimming, so instead of stopping the behavior completely they have been giving him something softer to throw - this does not work here because there are to many other objects to get his hands on, so he isn't interested in the softer items.

Please help!

An idea that popped into my mind.

I just had a visual of taking a sturdy pair of gloves - sew about a foot of so of elastic (do this on each glove)- like for waistbands so it is sturdy but nice and springy - sew the one end firmly to the palm of the glove. Sew the other end firmly to a tennis ball or something not too damaging but not too light - it has to have a bit of weight. He might really like the dangly weight - he can whap, whap, whap things with the balls - including whapping the two balls that are sewn to the gloves together. I can just feel it as I am thinking about it and I would be fascinated. If he likes them, it is pretty hard to pick up other stuff and they might keep him plenty interested. It just seems like a cheap, simple thing that might work. I would have so much fun with those - stims the limit - swirl them, bop them, dangle them, watch them go back and forth like a pendulum.

Just thinking. LM

Just FYI, there's a parent of autistics forum here. I know this is your first post, and you are new. I'm just trying to be helpful.

If it won't be too traumatic for him, maybe you can replace all of his toys with softer toys, then try to redirect him if he tries to throw something else instead.

Do you think it's a type of stimming? He might be throwing things to stimulate his auditory system...especially if he seems to enjoy the noise.

Find other ways to work with noise....like music or sports with music.