Our New Mud Kitchen
Please don’t fall down…..
Can you see it?
Ta da, now you can look.
Woah, how did my thumb go into the bubble!
Dino meet…….
bang, bang…..
looks a lot easier than it is.
Can you do this? wait…..nope, I have to keep my hands up. How are you doing that?
I can tap a rhythm.
Don’t be scared Pearl, I am just looking at the pattern on your shell.
I can see you!
Reading a story to my friend. 
Ice age….
I am ready for my long journey to the moon.
What was that noise? Look it is a magpie.
Making our own rockets.
1,2,3……
Bounce Bounce……
Squelch, do I look funny with it on my lips?
Who can make the tallest obstacle course?
I want to bring my bicycle on it too.
Adding more crates should make it taller. 1,2,3……
It was the first time I came across an egg timer, I was fascinated with the ticking sound and couldn’t wait for the alarm to go off. 
Lots to discuss before we start our puppet show
Learning to use a CD player
Quick, let’s see who can catch the most?
I found a spider in the Bug Hotel!
Roll camera….
We got lots of cupboard boxes so a group of children decided to make a space ship
I wonder what would happen if I pushed my face against the glass?
Then I labelled my bottle so we can sale it in our role play.
Making carrot juice by mixing colours.
Our Eid Party…
We got a gift bag and balloon to take home.
We had our face painted.
We played parcel parcel.
We had a bouncy castle.
We decorated short bread biscuits.
We played pin the minaret.
We dressed up like Handa and I didn’t needs words to describe how I felt.
Can you spot the real banana?
I am start my potty training soon.
Ahhhhh, will it stay up?
Trip to the local library 
Trip to the local park
I am not sure how I feel, happy or sad?
Putting away our bedding after sleep time.
I am on a number hunt, so sought help from my friends looking for the missing numerals. 
I needed help so asked one of my friends in the nursery.
I was very excited to build my structure but had to be super careful with the hammer and nails.
We get lots of opportunities for mark making.
Our Block play structure was so long….
It even had a bridge for our cars to go under.
We were experimenting dissolvable and non-dissolvable substances
Autumn nature walk “I wonder if the leaves will fall, when I hit the tree with this stick”
“How did you switch your torch on?”
Wow, look what is happening to the sand
We will have to share as there is only one
Well done, great team work
Yum yum
Please scroll to bottom for video and other information on mud kitchen play
Making dinner.
Making pumpkin soup.
More play in the mud kitchen.
More mud cooking
Washing dolls in the sand pit.
Worms, worms, worms!
Look at my worm.
Bubble play.
Oh what laughs.
Running in the rain.
Fantastic fun.
The wheels on the buss go round and round…..the driver on the bus says Bismillah.
Preparing a picnic in our nursery’s Den.
Forest School Play.
Making Dens out of natural materials.
Making noise on the sound wall.
SPLASH!
Making Friends.
Large bubbles
We love Mud Kitchen Play!
Above is a short clip of children playing in a mud kitchen at Daisykins day nursery in Rugby.
For More Information on Mud Play see :
Jan Whites’ Make a Mud Kitchen
The benefits of playing with Mud Mud, Marvellous Mud
Make a Mud Kitchen for Mud Day – new guidance published today!