Mud kitchen ingredients
Spruce up your mud kitchen with our 'shopping list' of ingredients and activity ideas.
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Mud Kitchens & Creepy Crawly Cafes - just one imaginative scenario for exploring mud - here are some resources to help.
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CREEPY CRAWLY RECIPES
Free printable sheets for children to make up their own creepy crawly recipes.
MUD KITCHEN MENUS
Free printable PDF menu templates for mud kitchen role play.
Mud kitchen cards
Smelly cocktails!
We love this idea for aromatic, sensory mud kitchen cocktails made using homegrown herbs.
We spotted these photos on Twitter - thanks to Flynn In The Forest for permission to use their pics. They in turn give credit to @EarthLearning as the idea came from their fantastic newsletter!
(click on the photos to see them full size)
Mud Kitchen kits & resources in the Muddy Faces shop
Add these kits to your messy play areas and encourage children to use their imagination to make perfume, create potions, make desserts and much more!
This section features our larger mud kitchen and role play products.
For mud play accessories and additional resources please look in our Mud Kitchen category.
This selection of mud kitchens are ideal for primary aged and early years children, they are open-ended resources ideal for role play in outdoor settings.
Our unique modular mud kitchens are designed to allow children and adults to change and redesign their mud kitchens!
See also
INSPIRATIONS - mud play
A collection of muddy ideas & activities; perfect for early years and all ages! Enhance your mud play and enjoy!
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A-Z of Mud Play
Muddy play ideas & inspiration developed as part of our campaign encouraging mud & natural materials play in the every day lives of children.
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Mud gallery
An amazing collection of photographs demonstrating the joy, fun, learning and creativity that mud play can bring to every setting!
Real photos of mud play & learning from the UK & around the world.
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Mud play tips
These tips are from the experts - Forest School practitioners, outdoor leaders, teachers, families - people who love mud play and it’s benefits so much that they have generously shared their skills, knowledge and experience with us.
We thank them all - and welcome any new mud play tips you have - send them to share@muddyfaces.co.uk
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Campfire perfume alchemy
A campfire craft activity - taking perfume & potion-making a step further by adding heat - a Muddy Faces story.
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Rose petal perfume
Create fragrant concoctions from natural ingredients - a simple but ever-engaging activity for adults as well as children.
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FREE Mud Kitchen book
Making a Mud Kitchen has everything you need to know about mud kitchens – all the whats, whys, wheres and hows - and is available to download for free.
Making a Mud Kitchen has been translated into TWELVE different languages and counting! Download your free pdf in:
• English • Croatian • French • German • Greek • Hungarian • Icelandic • Italian • Portuguese • Spanish • Swedish • Turkish or Welsh below.
A printed version of Making a Mud Kitchen is available to purchase in the Muddy Faces shop.
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