Mud, Glorious Mud!

This week we played with clean mud.  I found a recipe on Pinterest (Pinterest is so additive. If you're not on it....I dare you to try it. There are so many great ideas.)

The recipe is so simple:
Mix water with baking soda until you get a mud like consistency. I would suggest just adding a small amount at a time.  If you do add too much you can squeeze or drain the excess liquid out.

This is such a fun and very messy sensory table experience.  Most of my students loved it, though a couple did not like the sensory experience. If it's warm enough I would suggest playing outside.


The first day the children played with just the mud.

 

The second day the children had some 'tools' to play with.

 
 The third day we added some color. (food coloring)

 

And the last day we tried mixing in a few other ingredients.
First we added vinegar, which unfortunately wasn't as bubbly as I had hoped. Then we added shaving cream which made it more slimy and mud like.

 

Of course the children were involved in cleaning up the mess.