Today was the day we watched our kids do something that all young boys and girls are natural born experts at...
making a mud pie.
That’s right. My boy (6) and a neighbour of the same age played in the mud with water, for over an hour straight.
Which is a fair amount of time considering his unusual bouncing energy which hops from one thing to another during the day.
But this activity he found entirely by himself held his attention, and you could see his imagination whirring away.
What could it be? a mud pie? A castle with a moat? A slimy mud creature from the depths of the forest?
A portal to another world?
It was such primal play and it was brilliant to see. I can’t wait until he does it again!
I think my boy has been even more inspired after he discovered videos of some YouTube accounts that show men in a forest somewhere in the jungle (possibly in Thailand?) making houses, huts and amazing bathing spaces out of literally nothing but the earth, trees and clay.
They are hypnotising videos and they are weirdly therapeutic to watch.
The heat here in the UK (North) has been incredible lately.
So it’s been tops off and water out.
We made sure after his mud games that he was washed outside before he set foot in the house!
The bath colour when he got out was an godly shade of greeny-brown.
Anyway, he had fun and so did we.
What did he learn? I have no idea. You would have to ask him :)