How does Mud Day work?
You organise Mud Day yourself. Whether you are a school, host parent, childcare centre, after-school care organisation or visitor centre: anyone who considers it important for children to play in nature can join Mud Day and organise something themselves. You can register your activity via the IVN website. IVN places all participating locations on a map. Registration is important in order to measure and demonstrate the impact of this day nationwide. In addition, after registering you will receive a link to the updated Mud Day materials, such as the poster, useful checklists and guides. These contain not only background information, but also numerous activity suggestions for different age groups.
Mud Day only at schools and childcare centres
Primary schools and childcare centres are reopening, and children up to the age of 12 are once again allowed to play sports in teams. It has therefore been decided that Mud Day can go ahead at private locations where there are no members of the public from outside. Because Mud Day can be organised in various forms, the organisation assumes that schools and childcare centres will do this in an appropriate manner and observe the guidelines issued by the government.
Top 10 mud posts on social media from 2019
During Mud Day 2019, social media went wild. Participants shared the best mud photos and videos, from wheelbarrows full of mud and mud slides to entire mud kitchens. To relive the experience, the organisation has compiled the 10 best posts.
Here are the top 3:
1. Tough tiger-crawling in the mud
2. Having fun in the wheelbarrow
3. A little scared at first, then completely letting loose!
Click here for the full top 10.