Dirty Dishes - The Benefits of Learning with Mud Kitchens

Learn how to use your mud kitchen as a tool to support your student’s development. Mud kitchens are easy ways to add sensory input into your curriculum to support collaboration, motor skills, literacy, math, and science. It is an inclusive activity that will help with the foundational skills needed for printing and storytelling. Discover the tools needed and expand learning into your class curriculum all year round.

Takeaways:

• Understanding the tools needed to easily set up your mud kitchen.
• Allowing children the ability to seek out the right amount of sensory input to support their development.
• Expanding children’s play at mud kitchens to support literacy, math, and science concepts.
• Providing sensory-rich opportunities to support self-regulation, belonging, and social connections.
• Converting your mud kitchen into a snow and ice kitchen in the winter.