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 :

	Mud Painting: Camp Slop Create Mud Sculptures: Casa Maria's  Creative Learning Zone
	Paint Dirt: Time for Play Create Art in Dirt: Tinkerlab

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dirt sensory play :

	A Mud Tub: Chasing Cheerios Dirt Sensory Tub: Play & Learn with Dana
	Sensory Bin for Farming: Teach Preschool Baby Dirt Terrarium: The Great Green Room
	Dig for Worms: The Chocolate Muffin Tree Mix Dirt Soup: Quirky Momma
	Jump in a Mud Puddle: Play-Based Classroom Sand Mud Box: Play Create Explore

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pretend dirt play :

	Cook in a Mud Pie Kitchen: Simple Whimsy Archaeological Treasure Hunt: Greening Sam & Avery
	Create & Plant Caterpillars: Child Central Station Pretend Paleontologist: 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
	Build a Bird's Nest: hands on : as we grow Make a Pond: The Work Plan

5 MORE Dirty Ways to Play:

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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-- Henry is 3 years old --

-- George is 8 months old --

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