Outdoor Play: Making Muddy Footprints Isn’t Always Easy.

I had a bit of alone time with my middle daughter. We thought it might be fun to try to make muddy footprints.

Do you want to make shoe prints or do it in bare feet.

Her face lit up

Bare Feet!

In Seattle it rains a lot. Finding soft mud shouldn’t be a problem….

But then it is still only just outside of winter and we still have frosty mornings.

The mud didn’t look much like we would be able to make footprints. We decided to wet it with the hose.

We tried again.

It’s not working.

How about we dig a bit and try to find the clay-like mud?

We found trowels and proceeded to dig.

Let’s add a bit more water now.

We tried again.

Now it’s too wet! It doesn’t work properly.

How about we try to smooth it out and make it flat and then see what happens?

Press your foot in

Look it worked.

We can try again in the Summer or in another bit of mud. Can you wash my foot with the hose?

It’ll be cold

I like it cold.

10 thoughts on “Outdoor Play: Making Muddy Footprints Isn’t Always Easy.”

My eldest would love to do this, hope you have more success soon

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Terrific idea but I won’t suggest it to the girls until its a bit warmer.

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daft things us parents do with our kids in the name of fun. we found soft sinky sand on the beach the other week and were having fun seeing who could make the deepest marks, and explaining why mine were deeper than his.

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LOL. You wouldn’t think that making muddy footprints would be so difficult! You could put muddy feet on a piece of paper next time to remind you of your muddy escapades 🙂

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The snow, sand and mud are all great for footprints and hand prints. I love the hosing down to make the mud, certainly no need for that here, we are full of mud thanks to a wet couple of days. I’m looking forward to seeing the summer time prints too. Thank you for linking up to Country Kids

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