Really: is there anything more elementally delicious than the sensation of cool mud squelching between your toes? If there's one thing UK settings are not short of, it's the raw ingredients for mud play - dirt (or sand) and water. So, why not join thousands of other settings across the globe and celebrate International Mud Day on 29 June this year?
Organised by the Nature Action Collaborative for Children, Mud Day aims to introduce truly messy play into children's lives in order to help them reconnect with the natural world around them. Playing in mud offers children opportunities to discover new physical, emotional and imaginative interests, experimenting with a tactile material that can feel almost alive. Mud is best when children are able to play in and around it, unhindered by adult concerns about dirty clothes and messy play spaces.
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