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30+ Dirty Kid Activities

30 dirty kid activities

International Mud Day is tomorrow, Wednesday, June 29th!

To celebrate, here’s 30 dirty activities for kids, dirt construction 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!

 

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dirt construction activities :


Build a Mud Castle:
Sun Hats & Wellie Boots

Underground Plumbing:
My Kids Make

Mud Brick Buildings:
Education.com


Build with Mortar:
Irresistible Ideas
for Play Based Learning

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dirty art projects :
Camp Slop
Casa Maria’s
Creative Learning Zone
Time for Play
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dirt sensory play :
Chasing Cheerios
Play & Learn with Dana
Teach Preschool
The Great Green Room
The Chocolate Muffin Tree
Quirky Momma
Play-Based Classroom
Play Create Explore
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pretend dirt play :
Greening Sam & Avery
Child Central Station
Habeebee Homeschooling


Plant a Fairy Ring:
Nurture

 


Create a Play Garden:
The Imagination Tree

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playful dirty learning :


Dirt is Good:
Peaceful Parenting

D is for Dirt:
Naturally Educational
3 Dirt Science Projects:
Parenting Science
Make Compost:
Spell Outloud


Terrarium:
Paint Cut Paste

 


Start a Garden:
hands on : as we grow

hands on : as we grow
The Work Plan
Chasing Supermom
Gotten muddy lately?
Share your dirty experiences below!

More collections of play ideas!

Check back throughout the week (June 27-July 1), 
muddy activities and ways to play will be added all week long to celebrate International Mud Day!

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About Jamie Reimer

Jamie is a baker's wife and stay at home mom of three boys. Jamie began hands on : as we grow as a New Year's Resolution to do hands on kids activities with Henry when he was 2.5 years old. Read more about Jamie and her family. Follow Jamie on and Pinterest!

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  1. Anna @ The Imagination Tree says:

    What a FANTASTIC list of ideas you have put together Jamie! Well done! And thanks for including a couple of ours :-)

  2. Melissa @ The Chocolate Muffin Tree says:

    WOw! You are Amazing! You area Genius and making collection posts! Thanks for doing all the research! Thanks for including me!

  3. Melissa @ The Chocolate Muffin Tree says:

    (yikes—-mistakes galore!) You are a Genius at making collection posts!

  4. JDaniel4's Mom says:

    This looks like loads of fun and tons of Spray n Wash later.

  5. Mom to 2 Posh Lil Divas says:

    oh boy – what muddy messy fun you ahve listed here! Awesome & inspiring ideas all in one place! :)

  6. Juliet Robertson says:

    Wow! This is the Mother of all Mud Posts! You've done your homework and more! Thanks so much. I'm awed!

  7. Holly Ann says:

    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! :)

  8. balmeras says:

    So fun — this is what childhood should look like. I can't believe it too me this long to find your blog!

    :-) Bethe @balmeras

  9. 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)

  10. What a great list of muddy resources! Thanks for the feature! :)

  11. Time for Play says:

    Thanks for including our Dirt Paintings….we are going out to get muddy with all these great ideas!

  12. Angelique Felix says:

    Great post! Thank you so much for sharing .
    Angelique

  13. Melissa @ Simple Whimsy says:

    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.

  14. Pretty Nifty says:

    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!

  15. 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!!

  16. 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!

  17. Nurture says:

    Thank you for including us in your mud post! We love mud and love your site.

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  19. I always have fun looking around your site and finding new ideas! I’m pinning this post for summer ideas. Thanks! :)