Dear Parents,
We are in the process of setting up an outdoor mud kitchen in Reception. This
resource is the ultimate in messy play and will be an opportunity for children to
experience the pleasures of mud play in a safe and meaningful way. Mud
kitchens come highly recommended by outstanding early year’s practitioners and
consultants.
A mud kitchen includes elements from indoor play cooking but experiences are
hugely enriched through the special nature of being outside and the ability to
mix soil, water and other natural materials. Children can see physical
transformations but are encouraged to use their imagination to really build on
their experiences and subsequently develop expression and language. The
children will be exploring and consolidating a range of skills such as filling,
pouring, estimating, emptying, transferring, counting, mixing, throwing,
splashing, shredding and separating in amongst their very own mud kitchen. +
We are looking to add to our mud kitchen that Mr Coles has kindly made for us
with some other second hand resources. We would welcome any contributions
from the list on the back of this letter. If you can help at all please bring your
offerings to the school office.
If you would like to read more about mud kitchen play go to muddyfaces.co.uk
Many thanks
Resources Needed
These things do not need to be new, second hand from home, friends,
family or charity shops is great but preferably no plastic ‘toy’ resources.
Pots and pans (ones that can be hung on hooks would be great)
Kitchen utensils ladles, spoons, scoops....,........
Bowls and containers of various sizes
Storage pots/jars with lids to store natural materials
Pestle and mortar
Sieves
Colanders
Funnels
Baskets
Whisks
Small watering cans
Wooden spoons
Baking equipment
Measuring jugs
Large bowl that could be used as a washing up bowl
Extra large buckets to fill with sand and soil
Old microwave.
Anything else you have that you think would be interesting for the children to
play with in the kitchen!