Children and Early Years Professionals at Portland Nurseries and around the world celebrated International Mud Day. The initiative started in 2009 at the World Forum for Early Childhood Care and Education in Belfast, and aims to celebrate nature and the outdoors and bring children together by getting muddy.
The Portland Nurseries group put a huge focus on outdoor play and love mud! Mud is a fantastic imaginative art medium and playing with mud encourages the children to think creatively, as it provides endless opportunities for experimentation and discovery! It is an amazing sensory experience that allows children to develop an appreciation of their environment while helping with their physical development. Mud is part of everyone’s childhood and a lot of fun!
The children at Holly Bank made their own mud by adding water to the dry soil and then enjoyed squelching, squishing and smearing mud, making mud pies and mud soup and even some mud birthday cakes!
Mud song
Mud, Mud, glorious mud.
There’s nothing quite like it for cooling the blood.
So follow me follow, down to the hollow.
There we shall wallow in glorious mud.
