Nature play, and access to nature for kids, is a hot topic. Children today have less time and access to play outside in dirt than in the past. Especially in cities! Lots of new research shows how important free-play and nature play is to children’s development.
We love the design challenge of how to make mud play work indoors. Our designer, Christina Frank, has assembled a board of consultants to think about how to make this kind of water-and-dirt-play work inside. We also hope that MUDLAND will advocate for messy play for kids, and give more families permission to let their kids get messy in their own self-directed play at home!
Katie has researched and visited many cutting-edge playgrounds and children’s museums around the world, and hasn’t found any yet that use water-play combined with sand or dirt indoors. MUDLAND may be the first of its kind!
Dirt is good.