Tuesday 20 March 2012

Mighty Mud Mania

I put a challenge out to the children. 

We have a large amount of mud in our yard, on an almost consistent basis! I wanted to see how many different ways we could play with the mud. 

Over the last few weeks we've discovered even more muddy fun. 
channeling water into the mud

Scooping it from one place to another

Okay, technically, not mud... but scooping muddy water into the channel

Turning into a soup

another take on a soup... this time with packing peanuts and pine cones

Painting with above soup

Floating jar lids in the muddy puddles

Painting our school with mud

Mud Pies... wasn't that the best day EVER???

More painting of our building

crossing over it with bridges

EVEN MORE painting... this has been the favourite part of the mud challenge. Notice the wet mud painted over the dried up mud. Yep our building used to be grey, now it's a nice shade of brown!

Scooping it

Transporting it!

Scooping AND transporting

Haha, there was a tiny hole in the bottom of the truck.. the poor children were so confused why it never filled up!

fly swatter mud painting

The fly swatters left behind some interesting designs.....

....because they were hand shaped.

More fly swatter mud painting

Muddy handprints

Yep, even face exfoliant.

A place to ride our bikes

a place to find worms

a place to put more water

perfect for adding grass seed to.

I can't wait to find out what else we can discover mud can do!

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