{"id":25144,"date":"2023-08-21T14:46:28","date_gmt":"2023-08-21T14:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/?p=25144"},"modified":"2023-08-21T14:46:43","modified_gmt":"2023-08-21T14:46:43","slug":"getting-busy-in-the-mud-kitchen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/2023\/08\/21\/getting-busy-in-the-mud-kitchen\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting busy in the Mud Kitchen"},"content":{"rendered":"

You might be wondering how playing in a mud kitchen can be educational. Well, let’s find out:<\/span><\/p>\n

During mud kitchen play, kids explore various soil types, textures, and material transformations. They observe how mud changes with water and experiment with different natural elements. This activity also introduces early math concepts like measurements and proportions as they scoop, pour, and mix mud. Teamwork, cooperation, and sharing blossom in the mud kitchen, enhancing social skills. The kitchen’s open canvas sparks imagination, letting children be chefs, scientists, or nature artists, opening doors to endless creativity.<\/span><\/p>\n

So let\u2019s see what happened in the Cart Mill Mud Kitchen today. <\/span><\/p>\n

First we foraged the garden and collected lots of different plants to use during our play. They will make fantastic ingredients for the items on the menu today. We found pea pods,\u00a0<\/span>pea shoots, dock leaves, clovers and mint in the garden.
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The children decided that on todays menu was \u201cBeans and pea pie\u201d<\/p>\n

Next our little chefs set out to start cooking in the mud kitchen.\u00a0 <\/span>Exploring their imagination they worked together to chop the leaves on the chopping boards. \u00a0They scooped <\/span>water using ladles, spoons and cups and mixed the mud and sand together in pots, pans and bowls.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe need to turn the gas on to cook them\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201dChopping them all up so it\u2019s small\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201dPour the water in the kettle\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201dMixing it all together\u201d<\/p>\n

One of the children opened some of the pea pods we found in the garden and explored what he found inside. \u201cThey are green beans\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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The finished result! Look at the fantastic creation ready to be served.<\/p>\n

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Article 6-\u00a0I should be supported to live and grow<\/p>\n

Article 28 – I have the right to an education<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You might be wondering how playing in a mud kitchen can be educational. Well, let’s find out: During mud kitchen play, kids explore various soil types, textures, and material transformations. They observe how mud changes with water and experiment with different natural elements. This activity also introduces early math concepts like measurements and proportions as … Continue reading Getting busy in the Mud Kitchen<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37699,"featured_media":25131,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5556],"tags":[446699,447031,446796,447127,447235,446165,8379],"class_list":["post-25144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-outdoor-learning","tag-finemotorskills","tag-mudkitchen","tag-outdoorlearning","tag-outdoorplay","tag-socialskills-garden","tag-curiosity","tag-teamwork"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/cartmill\/uploads\/sites\/13750\/2023\/08\/21111746\/480E964C-8D91-47C0-AB8A-17658832D809-rotated.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37699"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25144"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25149,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25144\/revisions\/25149"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}