Fun muddy activities to help your little ones grow


 messy play in their own garden or nursery. Take them on a journey to discover what creatures live in the mud. Learning  create perfect growing matter – mud! We’ve created a few fun activities to help them expand their learning.


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FACT: Worms do not have eyes and prefer the dark.


Step by step


• Hunt for your worms – Take your little ones on an outdoor scavenger hunt. Turn over stones and wood, or simply dig in the bare earth. Stamping up and down creates a vibration that is supposed to attract them to the surface. If that fails, you could try to draw them out by thoroughly soaking an area of grass.


• Prepare your wormery make a lid.


• Muddy messy play – Fill your bottle with alternating layers of sand, soil, sand and newspaper etc. Spray or dampen each layer with water.


• Wiggly fun time – Add a few worms to the top and watch them burrow down. Then add the remaining food at the top.


Don’t forget - wash your hands well after handling worms and compost!


Place your wormery in a warm dark place or cover with cardboard. Regularly check your wormery making sure that the contents are still damp and that there is food available for your wriggly worms.


You can release your worms back into the garden after a week.


FACT: A worm can eat its own weight in soil in one day.


FACT: Worms are invertebrates, which means they don’t have any bones.


Create your own wormery


Be warned this is not for the squeamish – be prepared to hold wriggly worms! Children will love this activity and will be amazed to see the changes to their wormery over time.


What you’ll need


• 2 litre clear, plastic bottles •  • Compost or soil or a mixture of both • 803022 - YPO Play Sand • A few worms - the fun bit • Water spray • Worm food – grated carrot, vegetable peelings, dead leaves, shredded newspaper


Please don’t feed your worms citrus fruits or onions!!!


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