Instead of screens today, why not play in the dirt outside?
My girls are a dynamic creative duo and the other day they spent a goodly amount of time under the house scraping out some ‘clay’. I didn’t even know there was clay under the house, but it turns out there was a very clingy kind of mud that could be clay.
The girls molded the clay into faces, pots and little figurines and then left their creations to dry in the sun.
Some of their pieces cracked and crumbled (more mud than clay, I suspect) but some are still standing. Regardless, the girls had a lovely time making things from what they could find around the house and that’s where creativity really begins right there.
Have you got a dirt patch in your backyard?
Is it freaking you out to see the girls playing in the mud in their school uniforms (because it did me!)?
Let’s play!
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Erin says
Hoping for your sake they have more than one uniform:)_
Down in the bush, where the dam overflows is a clay ‘patch’, every now and then the kids trundle the wheelbarrow down and come home with a barrow full of clay.
Maxabella says
I KNEW a fellow mum was going to say that!!
I’d love to have a dam. A dam sounds like all kinds of fun. x
Claire says
That looks like so much fun – I’m jealous! I used to love playing with play-doh when I was little, but the idea of real life clay found under the house would have sent me over the edge I think!
Mother Down Under says
Oh we make mud all the time! Charlie gets his watering can, fills it up, and away he goes! It really works as a double adventure because first there is mud play and then there is bath play!