Foreveryoung Posted November 19, 2014 Posted November 19, 2014 Ok I'm stuck, looking for some out of the box ideas and I know you are all good at that ! We are in a church hall, the outdoor courtyard is accessed free flow through the session which is a direct door from our side room which is carpeted to the courtyard. Outside we have a play house, box's of various things, one table to have whatever on and chalk board and white board, also here's my problem we have a large wooden trough with a table at the side to make up our fantastic mud kitchen! But with the weather the concrete floor is mucky with the mud no matter how much you scrub it down the drain, the children are bringing such muddy prints inside that we are in for a serious telling off by the church ! Asking children at this age to take their shoes off is just impractical as a 2 year old may go inside and change there mind literally 2 mins later. Does anyone have any ideas of what we can put in our trough to replicate the mud kitchen ? Ps we carnt have food products such as oats due to vermin as it's at the back of a cafe it lends itself to the lovely creatures. The children love the kitchen, I do too but it's getting beyond practical !
green hippo Posted November 19, 2014 Posted November 19, 2014 You can use sand and then other natural products - some settings do have a sand kitchen instead. Another possibilities could be wood shavings or paper shavings or soap shreds (would make it clean at least!)
Rafa Posted November 19, 2014 Posted November 19, 2014 We have a sand kitchen and its great fun and less messy to clean up! 1
finleysmaid Posted November 19, 2014 Posted November 19, 2014 Can the children not have wellies? all of ours have boots for outside and shoes for inside. They learn to do it themselves really quickly. We keep them on lunch box trollies so they dont take up much room 2
Stargrower Posted November 20, 2014 Posted November 20, 2014 We turn our mud kitchen into a bark chip kitchen in the winter because it just gets TOO muddy and quite slippery. It seems to work well. As soon as the weather warms up in the spring we go back to glorious mud!
Susan Posted November 21, 2014 Posted November 21, 2014 Be careful with bark chips, you can get nasty splinters! Dont know if there are different grades though.
finleysmaid Posted November 21, 2014 Posted November 21, 2014 Be careful with bark chips, you can get nasty splinters! Dont know if there are different grades though. yes there are you need to buy play grade because ordinary bark may be treated with anti-fungal preservatives which are not suitable for children.
Foreveryoung Posted November 23, 2014 Author Posted November 23, 2014 Thanks everyone, I knew you'd have ideas x
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