Mud is a unique medium that provides endless opportunities for play and discovery.
Josée Bergeron
International Mud Day is celebrated throughout the globe, with children (and adults) celebrating nature, being outdoors, and getting really, really dirty!
Research suggests that mud play is a basic biological need, with a variety of benefits including:
- Boosting your immune system and follow on improvements to your mood through exposure to “friendly soil bacteria”.
- Mud play is an opportunity for children to use their senses, which increases brain activity.
- During mud play, children are not only exercising and being physically active, they are also forming ideas, problem solving and using critical thinking as they play.
- Development and use of fine and gross motor skills, sensory awareness, balance and coordination.
As adults we might not like the mess or the cleaning, but we do need to stand back and let children get dirty.
I have written about this day before. See here.
Here's some books, not mentioned there:
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