Your mud kitchen is at the heart of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) learning in the early years. Its potential to help children make sense of seemingly abstract concepts makes a mud kitchen or mud lab an essential element in any outdoor space. Best of all, anything from a washing-up bowl with mud in it can be a mud lab – you really don’t need expensive ready-made equipment.
In addition to the usual pots and pans, source bottles, jars, squeezy cartons, basting pipettes, measuring jugs, funnels and other vessels that demand a range of fine motor skills. The clear plastic tubes from jumbo bubble blowers make excellent ‘test tubes’ for a mud lab. A large bucket and pelican pump – try HO Plastics, https://buybuckets.co.uk/product/5l-bucket-pump – will provide a ready (but controllable!) source of water.
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