It’s just that simple! Go out with your own wildlings and sling some mud! Go out on a rainy day, or simply just make mud, find a target (trees, a branch, rock…) and sling it! 

It’s great to see children’s faces light up as they ask ‘’what, really? We get to chuck mud!?” This entire activity is fun and therapeutic for everyone involved.

During this activity we observe so many processes and communications – confirming once again that learning does occur through play:

• discussion and resolution as boundaries and rules were worked out
• encouragement and competition during the slinging
• artistic opinions in the descriptions of what the mud splats look like
• maths, as trajectories were discussed
• science, as changes in the texture of the mud effected the stickiness of the splat.

For more info you can read this great article telling about the added mud play benitits from gut health, emotional health to better immune systems