WHILE seeing their child completely covered in mud might be some parents’ worst nightmare, one group of nursery children were recently encouraged to get muddied up.
The Oxford Nursery in Summertown celebrated International Mud Day with a range of events.
Julie Pender, manager at the nursery, said: “Our children at The Oxford Nursery in Summertown spent the day enjoying the muddy outdoors.
“They used mud in their creative activities and painted some lovely artwork.
“They used their imagination to make muds pies by adding grass and flowers to their muddy recipes, and they enjoyed feeling the texture of the mud using their hands and feet and they laughed so much as they came down the slide into a pool of mud.”
International Mud Day started in 2009, as a way of bringing children closer together, and address barriers with regards to race, age and religion.
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