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Mud Play Ideas For Kids

Let the mess begin! Real dirt, real mud and a real lot of good wholesome mess make for the best play and learning experiences! These mud activities below explore mud inside and out with science, sensory, math and building play. Sensory play activities are so important for young children.

Fun Mud Activities For Preschoolers

Mud Play Activities for Kids Science Sensory Math Building Play Dirt Water

Mud Play

When it comes to mud play, why not let kids feel what they are learning about. Experiment with new ideas. Create new play schemes. Solve problems and enjoy the process. Give your child the opportunity to get dirty. It’s good for them! 

A good place to start: How Getting Dirty is Healthy for Kids | Stay At Home Educator

When I share a collection of ideas like these mud play activities, I want to promise you that I think they are the best mud activities according to what my son would like. These mud play activities are all tucked away for future use, and I can’t wait to try them all! What do I love about mud play? I love how simple mud play activities can be. What do you need? Dirt and water! Add fun props like buckets, scoops, pvc pipes, sticks, rocks, and more. In the end all you need for mud play is mud and water.

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Sometimes we forget the importance of being dirty, getting dirty, making messes, and living or playing simply. This Spring and summer, let’s all make a committed effort to turn of the electronics and scoop some mud. Everyone should get their hands in it. Check out these cool mud play activities multiple ages can enjoy at home or at school. Also, check your recycling bin for great items to add to your mud play. Plus, a watering can is great fun for kids!

7 Mud Activities Plus One Fun Clean-Up Activity!

Engineering Play with PVC Pipes

This is one of our activities. I love that my son wanted to add the PVC pipes for a bit of engineering play. By adding the PVC pipes to this mud activity, he had to test his problem-solving skills too.

Dirt and Mud Sensory Bin

This mud play activity was a result of an awesome child-led sensory play challenge. The goal of this dirt challenge was not to pre-plan what your child would do with the dirt or how they should play with it! We all need to remember to step back once in a while. Enjoy observing your child!

Dirt Sensory Bin Challenge Activity

Preschool Mud Day | Fun- A -Day

Enjoy a mud day. Get in it. Mix it. Scoop it. Paint it.

Mud Play Ideas | Happy Hooligans

I absolutely love the use of a wheelbarrow to make this awesome mud play activity come to life. What a great way to play with mud if you don’t have a sandbox. Should be easy to clean up too!

Mud Soup | No Time for Flash Cards

Awesome mud play activity for sensory play and pretend play!

Mud Math | Confidence Meets Parenting

Sneak in math with sensory play! The benefits of hands-on learning are numerous. Kids learn amazingly well when they are well engaged. Doing is learning.

Mud Glorious Mud | Sun Hats and Wellie Boots

I love how these kids explore mud with other parts of nature. You have to check out the unique ways you can use mud!

Magic Mud

Make your own cornstarch mud for hands-on sensory play for kids.  Check out our simple magic mud recipe!

Soap Foam

Time for the suds! I am pretty sure everything will be dirty by the time you are finished with your mud play activities. Why not set up a soapy sensory wash outdoors and get the buckets, scoops, and other materials clean and ready for the next mud day activities!

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Enjoy mud play activities this Spring and Summer!

Click on the image below or on the link for fun summer science experiments for younger and older kids.

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  1. Rosa Maria

    May 28, 2017 at 1:22 pm

    Awesome mud kitchen idea for kids outdoor play. They can play and make a huge fun. At the same times, they can pretend that they are cooking all kind of dishes. This type of activities will help your kids a lot for improving their creativity and imagery thoughts when they just spend times in outside area. Thanks for sharing this idea. I just back in my childhood.

  2. Sachin Shah

    July 13, 2018 at 7:22 am

    It is fun to see how parents today are open about letting kids play with mud and explore unique activities close to nature. This was not the case a few decades ago. People were pretty scared to let their children play in the mud thinking they would get ill. Thanks for the share.

  3. Catherine

    August 26, 2018 at 8:14 am

    I made this for my almost two yr. old little girl and I must say she really enjoyed it! I had to keep reminding her not to put in mouth lol. As I played along with her I kept thinking it was snow instead of clean mud 😉
    Thanks for sharing!

  4. Courtney

    September 8, 2018 at 2:45 am

    Hahaha…. that’s a pretty idea. In childhood, I used to play & eat the mud. LOL!

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