You could feel the heat hit you when you head outside, but some local kids found a different way to cool down.
Saturday was International Mud Day, and the Johnny Appleseed Parks District created a mud themed event for kids and the parents to enjoy. The kids threw mud at targets, built castles and funny faces out of mud. They also could take wild flower seeds and encase them in mud, to take home and plant, or if they were feeling the creative juices flowing, they also could finger paint with mud.
With so many activities that kids can do inside in this day and age, the park district put on this event for them to get outside and explore nature and get messy.
“It’s a lot of the fundamental, it’s sensory, it’s creative, just being the free play activity," said Jessie Elsass, with the Johnny Appleseed Metro Parks District. "It opens up a whole new door for them, they are not being told what to do or how to do it, and anything thy want to do is fine.”
This is the first year the park district celebrated International Mud Day.
