Mud Day Play 2026

What a muddy mess! And that's how we like it on Mud Day when we spill out onto our nature playground, blacktop, and Totlot for some muddy sensory fun--splashing and squishing, digging and cooking, crawling and sliding, and lots more. 

But, Mud Day is not all play, it is a healthy physical and social-emotional activity. The benefits of mud play range from developing hand-eye coordination and providing opportunities for making marks (pre-writing!) to offering chances for measuring and counting to encouraging representational play. These sensory experiences build body awareness and control, are rich with descriptive language, and so much more.