Mud KItchen

Are there areas where your children are not playing? Stand back and watch for 10 minutes. How are the environments being used? Look at the areas that are not in use and be curious about why. Ask yourself would you want to play there? How could the area be improved?

Our mud kitchen was in a need of a spring clean and a refresh.

Here are some ideas of what to include in your mud kitchen;

-Oven
-Pizza oven
-Weighing scales
-Tea pot
-Pots
-Pans
-Plates
-Cups
-Casserole dish with lid
-Ice cream scoop
-Potato masher
-Garlic press
-Ravioli cutters 
-Pestle and mortar 
-Different sized scoops 
-Mixing bowls of different sizes
-Spices 
-Empty food packages 
-Moss
-Herbs
-Perfume bottles 
-Washing lines and pegs to hold up their nature finds 

For more ideas on nature play check out my Rewilding Your Wanderlust Nature Study Programme.

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