Mud Play

International Mud Day Activities for Preschoolers

Jackie Currie — Fri, 16 Jun 2017 19:36:59 +0000

International Mud Day is June 29th.

Here are 8 of our favourite mud-play activities to make the day a screaming success for your kids.

From car-washes to mud-slides to painting with mud, these fun and fabulous activities will make mud day one of your kids' favourite days of the year!

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Decorating Mud Pies with Outdated Pantry Supplies

Jackie Currie — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 05:26:24 +0000

This wonderful mud kitchen activity requires only a bucket of mud, a few kitchen items and a handful of stale dated pantry items. Kids can make mud pies garnished with lentils, corn, oats and spices for a spectacular morning of mud play. If you’re looking for fun mud activities for kids to do for International...

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Ghost Mud Sensory Dough with Toilet Paper, Soap and Water

Jackie Currie — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 18:52:35 +0000

Ghost Mud (also known as Clean Mud) is the most fun you can have with a bar of Ivory soap and a roll of toilet paper. This incredible homemade sensory dough is easy to make and it’s a wonderful sensory activity preschoolers. Ghost mud smells fantastic, and it’s delightfully ooey and gooey when you squeeze it...

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Muddy Car Wash Activity for Kids

Jackie Currie — Sat, 26 May 2012 04:00:36 +0000

Who’s ready for an awesome mud play idea? A muddy car wash is a terrific mud activity for preschoolers! Drive those cars through the mud, down the ramp, and “splash” into a bucket of soapy water! My toddlers and preschoolers are enjoying lots of water play activities and mud play now that the summer weather has arrived. Their favourite...

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How to Make a Mobile Mud Patch for Play in your Backyard

Jackie Currie — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 15:12:19 +0000

Use a wheelbarrow to create a mobile mud patch for mud play in your backyard play space! It’s like a portable mud kitchen, and it will provide your kids with hours of good, old-fashioned muddy play! It’s a wonderful way to provide a temporary mud patch or mud kitchen in your backyard at home or preschool without...

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Backyard Play in our Daycare

Jackie Currie — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 16:41:56 +0000

When the weather is nice, the Hooligans and I spend most of our time outdoors, in our backyard play space. Quite often we’ll be out from the time they are dropped off in the morning until afternoon nap-time. I’d like to share some of our favourite backyard play ideas with you today. Fun and Easy...

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