To celebrate International Mud Day coming up, here’s 30 fun activities for the kids to have an excuse to get dirty! From construction activities to art with dirt, exploring teaching opportunities as well as the obvious mud and dirt sensory activities.
Find a dirt patch, make some mud and start digging!
For even more dirty and muddy ways to play, there’s a mud day linky at the end to provide you even more inspiration to let your kids get full of mud!
Fun activities to build in the dirt:
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| Build a Mud Castle: Sun Hats & Wellie Boots |
Underground Plumbing: My Kids Make |
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| Mud Brick Buildings: Education.com |
Build with Mortar: Irresistible Ideas for Play Based Learning |
Art projects to do with dirt:
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| Mud Painting: Camp Slop |
Create Mud Sculptures: Casa Maria’s Creative Learning Zone |
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| Paint Dirt: Time for Play |
Create Art in Dirt: Tinkerlab |
Sensory play in the dirt:
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| A Mud Tub: Chasing Cheerios |
Dirt Sensory Tub: Play & Learn with Dana |
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| Sensory Bin for Farming: Teach Preschool |
Baby Dirt Terrarium: Play Learn Love |
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| Dig for Worms: The Chocolate Muffin Tree |
Mix Dirt Soup: Kids Activities Blog |
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| Jump in a Mud Puddle: Play-Based Classroom |
Sand Mud Box: Play Create Explore |
Pretend play in the dirt:
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| Cook in a Mud Pie Kitchen: Simple Whimsy |
Archaeological Treasure Hunt: Greening Sam & Avery |
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| Create & Plant Caterpillars: Child Central Station |
Pretend Paleontologist: Habeebee Homeschooling |
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| Plant a Fairy Ring: Nurture |
Create a Play Garden: The Imagination Tree |
Learning activities with dirt:
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| Dirt is Good: Peaceful Parenting |
D is for Dirt: Naturally Educational |
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| 3 Dirt Science Projects: Parenting Science |
Make Compost: Spell Outloud |
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| Terrarium: Paint Cut Paste |
Start a Garden: hands on : as we grow |
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| Build a Bird’s Nest: hands on : as we grow |
Make a Pond: The Work Plan |
Gotten muddy lately? Share your dirty experiences below!
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What a FANTASTIC list of ideas you have put together Jamie! Well done! And thanks for including a couple of ours
WOw! You are Amazing! You area Genius and making collection posts! Thanks for doing all the research! Thanks for including me!
(yikes—-mistakes galore!) You are a Genius at making collection posts!
This looks like loads of fun and tons of Spray n Wash later.
oh boy – what muddy messy fun you ahve listed here! Awesome & inspiring ideas all in one place!
Wow! This is the Mother of all Mud Posts! You've done your homework and more! Thanks so much. I'm awed!
Just found your blog and I fell in love! I'm an elementary school teacher (I've taught 1st and 2nd grade) who is going down to Pre-K next year and I could use all the great ideas I can get! Plus my kids are 3 y/o twins plus a 19 month old so I can do lots of these activities at home with them too! We'll definitely be getting dirty tomorrow!
So fun — this is what childhood should look like. I can't believe it too me this long to find your blog!
What a fun post! I love the "mud buildings" idea. I think we'll try that out this afternoon.
This is a great blog! So glad I stopped by! (from weteach)
What a great list of muddy resources! Thanks for the feature!
Thanks for including our Dirt Paintings….we are going out to get muddy with all these great ideas!
Great post! Thank you so much for sharing .
Angelique
What a wonderful list of mud activities! Thanks for including our Mud Pie kitchen. I will be sharing some of these ideas with my girls. I definitely think a fairy ring is in order.
Thanks so much for this! My son and I (yes, I joined in!) just played in the mud for probably a full two hours! Made a mountain, waterfall, river and huge lake complete with a swamp monster (just a root of a weed)! Played with blocks, dinosaurs, construction vehicles and the always useful bilibo! He's two and usually hates getting dirty, but he warmed up eventually and I think he had the time of his life! His favorite part was the monster!
Pretty brilliant collection! Wow! I stand in awe of your efforts to reach out and include such a cross section of ideas.
Thanks also for including the linkie party for those of us joining somewhat after-the-fact!!
KUDOS!!
We missed mud day!
I think I'm going to have to declare our own family mud day. You have tons of great activities here that I know my kids will love!
Thank you for including us in your mud post! We love mud and love your site.
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I always have fun looking around your site and finding new ideas! I’m pinning this post for summer ideas. Thanks!
Great list of activities. Thanks for including our terrarium!
You’re welcome Jessica!