Sensory2–4 yrsOutdoors

Mud kitchen

Old pots, dirt, water. Prepare for the best meal of your life.

Prep

5 min

Mess

High

How to play

Set it all out and order something. A cake. Soup. Whatever he's serving. Ask what's in it and let him tell you the recipe.

  1. a pot, a spoon, a patch of dirt and a bucket of water
    1

    Old pots and spoons, dirt, and water.

  2. a spoon standing in a pot of mud, an arrow showing the stir
    2

    Mix it up, then order something.

  3. a mud cake served on a plate with a twig on top
    3

    Ask what's in it and let them tell you the recipe.

What you need

Old pots and spoons, dirt or sand, and water.

What it secretly builds

Sensory

Pretend cooking is where he practises language he has no other reason to use — stirring, pouring, hot, ready — and every question you ask stretches the story further.

Safety first
Old clothes, and a hand wash afterwards.
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