International Mud Month
Get your hands dirty! Roll down a hill, splash in a creek, even make a messy mud pie to connect yourself with childhood and nature during Mud Month.
Position outdoor play and nature connection as essential childhood development, driving sales of outdoor toys, gardening supplies, and eco-friendly products while supporting educational and charitable initiatives.
- Before & After: How 10 minutes in the mud boosts kids' creativity and confidence
- Mud Month Challenge: Schools & families share their messiest, most memorable outdoor moments
- Gear Guide: Best outdoor toys, clothing, and supplies for mud play season
- From Nepal to Your Backyard: How one school's charity mission became a global movement
In 2009 the children of Bold Park Community School joined forces with the boys of the Nepalese Panchkhal orphanage to celebrate the visceral and primal connection we all share with Earth and the outdoors.
Bold Park used this opportunity to raise funds to help support the less fortunate children of Nepal. Since that fateful beginning, schools, families, and ECE centers from all over the world have worked together to promote the idea that we all need to play in the mud sometimes, just to remember what it means to be human.
In 2015 it was decided that one day of playing in the mud simply wasn’t sufficient to ground us after a year of being lost in the technological glitz and digital glamour of our modern world, and so it was changed from “International Mud Day” to “International Mud Month”, and thus the celebration continued!
It’s not all about our personal connection with the Earth, but also about how we as humans connect to one another, and the relationships we form throughout our lives. Like any two ponds of mud, no two humans are exactly alike, and so International Mud Month encourages us to share that diversity and celebrate it!