Mud Fun Day Lesson Plan for Preschool Students

It is no secret that kids love mud! Let them learn about what they love by planning a mud day during the summer where they can learn and play at the same time.

Let parents know to have their students wear or bring their swimsuits on the mud day so they can play without worrying about their clothes and easily be rinsed off afterward.

Making Mud

Fill plastic swimming pools with dirt or set aside a dirt area of the play yard that can be blocked off while it dries on the following days. With the children's help, add water to the dirt until mud is created.

Mud Art

Cut up paper grocery bags to make large pieces of paper. Add a blob of mud in the center of each bag and let students create a finger painting style work of art with their mud paint.

Five Senses Mud Observation

Ask students to observe the mud using all five of their senses using questions like the following:

Sight: Describe what the mud looks like?

Sound: What sound does the mud make when you step into it?

Touch: What does mud feel like?

Taste: What do you think mud tastes like?

Smell: What does the mud smell like?

Mud Bricks

Help students mix some of the mud they created with grass clippings or short pieces of straw. Let them form rectangular bricks with the mud and lay them out in the sun where they can dry. (The smaller the brick, the shorter amount of time it will take to dry) After a few days the bricks should be dry and the students will be able to build towers, fences, and houses with the bricks.

Mud Pudding Cup Snack

For snack time, give each students a bowl of chocolate pudding, a spoon, a few gummi worms, and some crushed Oreo cookies or graham crackers. Let them bury their worms in the "mud" with a spoon, then sprinkle the cookie crumbs over the top for their very own mud sundae!

Mud Play

Provide old muffin tins and cake pans for students to make mud pies in. Plastic gardening tools can be used for digging and raking. Plastic spatulas can be used for smoothing out the mud and various objects can be used to stamp impressions in the mud. The children will also enjoy playing with plastic dinosaurs and other animals in their mud pit.

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