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    Mud Kitchen Crafts: 60 Awesome Ideas for Epic Outdoor Play
    Mud Kitchen Crafts: 60 Awesome Ideas for Epic Outdoor Play
    Mud Kitchen Crafts: 60 Awesome Ideas for Epic Outdoor Play
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    Mud Kitchen Crafts: 60 Awesome Ideas for Epic Outdoor Play

    By Sophie Pickles

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    Stimulate your child’s senses—right in your own backyard!

    Steer your little ones away from their screens and into the outdoors with projects designed to spark their insight, dexterity and imagination: Just add mud! With parenting blogger Sophie Pickles’s expert guidance, you’ll transform your backyard into a lively space where your children can experiment with different textures—there’s even a taste-safe alternative!—and understand the wonderful world around them.

    Using natural ingredients that are on-hand or easily obtainable, you’ll help your kids explore concepts like environmentalism, culinary science, creativity and math, while never losing sight of all the delightful sensory stimulation. Bond over the sheer fun of Shape Play, or try out Muddy River for an introduction to physics. Watch them delight in creating their own food station, with projects like Juice Bar and Mud Café. Better yet, help them build the blocks of critical thinking and observational skills, with activities like Mud Investigation and Mini Beast Hunt.

    With Mud Kitchen Crafts, education meets fun in a major way.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateMay 25, 2021
    ISBN9781645672760
    Mud Kitchen Crafts: 60 Awesome Ideas for Epic Outdoor Play

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      Mud Kitchen Crafts - Sophie Pickles

      Making a Mud Kitchen

      Making a mud kitchen does not have to be expensive; in fact, it need not cost much of anything at all. It’s easy to be tempted by expensive purpose-built mud kitchens that you see in stores and online, but the very best kitchens, and the ones that will be treasured most by your child, are the ones you create together.

      YOUR MUD KITCHEN

      Your physical mud kitchen structure can easily be made from a couple of wooden boards held up at either end by plastic crates or concrete blocks. Pallet boards also make perfect surfaces for play. Our mud kitchen, which you will see throughout this book, is an old TV unit that was made from scaffolding boards and was given to us by some friends. Of course, if you want to spend more money and buy a purpose-built mud kitchen, please don’t let me put you off. Just know that it absolutely isn’t necessary from a learning and enjoyment point of view.

      Whichever route you choose to go, make sure there is ample flat workspace for your child. You may wish to provide this on two levels so that they can choose whether to sit or stand. Having some spare planks of wood resting up against a nearby wall will allow you to extend the workspace when necessary, as well as increase the flexibility of your space.

      SETUP

      More important than looks is where you choose to position the mud kitchen in your outdoor space. This is something that can make a huge difference, not only to the fun factor, but also to the educational benefits of engaging in mud kitchen play.

      While it may seem useful to position your mud kitchen against a wall or fence, consider putting it in the middle of a space instead. Not only does this mean you can walk around it and easily access it from all angles, but it also helps to naturally promote conversation, language development and cooperative play. If you still prefer to lean your mud kitchen up against a vertical surface, or if you have limited space, consider introducing a small tree stump or circular station so that the opportunities to face each other and develop those conversational and sharing skills are still there.

      Hanging up some of your utensils not only saves space and makes them more appealing to the child but also has brilliant physical benefits. Consider hanging items ever so slightly higher than your child can reach, encouraging them to fully stretch out their arms and maybe even stand on their tiptoes. This will help develop their sense of balance, their core stability and their hand-eye

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