Christmas Games – the Muddy Way!
Christmas Games Take your Christmas games outside this year with these FREE muddy ideas from the outdoor learning experts at The Muddy Puddle Teacher. Circle time games For these games ask the children to hold hands and make a circle. This game is...
Christmas Crafts for Kids
Christmas Crafts for Kids Christmas time is best done when you remove all the money, shiny things and expensive toys. Kids play more with the box than they do the toy and it is so true. We are The Muddy Puddle Teacher and we are a new approach to outdoor...
Five free Outdoor Christmas Ideas
Five free Outdoor Christmas Ideas Getting the children outside in all weathers is really important for their mental and physical health and wellbeing. Plus it's really educational too and gets you and your child talking. Here are our five free Outdoor Christmas...
Deep Dive Go Outside!
Deep Dive Go Outside! Diving in deeper, mastery, challenge more. There are lots of buzz words flying around that ultimately want the same thing, to ensure the child has fully understood that area of the curriculum by presenting it to them in different ways. But have...
Outdoor Science Day 10th March
Muddy Science Day 10th March 2020 Lots of your Science curriculum belongs outside! Yet many of us still keep to the tradition of working from schemes of work, worksheets and booklets. But have you tried embracing the Science that is out there? Science is an...
Describe and compare the structure of animals – take it outside!
Describe and compare the structure of animals - take it outside! Typically an area that most teachers would teach inside the Muddy Teachers love to do this outside. Describing and comparing the structure of animals typically is a worksheet kind of thing but...
Improve wellbeing in your school by doing more Outdoor Learning
Improve wellbeing in your school by doing more Outdoor Learning Wellbeing has to be on every educators agenda. First and foremost it is the children's confidence and overall happiness that is paramount. If the children do not feel good then how can we...
Use Outdoor Learning to support SEND
Use Outdoor Learning to support SEND Outdoor learning is a fabulous and often overlooked teaching method. Many teachers consider their indoor approach and what methods and schemes they use but many see the outside space as merely there or playtimes and...
Outdoor Learning at Christmas
Outdoor Learning at Christmas It is cold out there ist it? But isn't there something special in that? There is nothing more lovely than being out in the cold and coming into the warm. It gives us memories, experiences and by observing that as a...
Outdoor Learning helps practical learners
Outdoor Learning helps practical learners It is true! You have a class full of children that learn differently. So how do you adapt your teaching to support all the children's needs without tiring yourself out? It is simple…..you take more of your lessons outside...
5 tips to have the best Muddy Puddle Christmas in Early Years
5 tips to have the best Muddy Puddle Christmas in Early Years Mud and early years go hand in hand so why not add some Christmas cheer into that perfect mix. The Muddy Puddle Teacher approach works on well being and raising confidence. The neutral space of...
Give the trees some Cheer this Christmas!
Give the trees some Cheer this Christmas and get outside and spend time with the children to decorate them. The Muddy Puddle Teachers are thrifty characters. We see the value in everything and sometimes using what you have around you creates just as much of a joyful...
5 top ways to get Older Kids Outside
5 top ways to get Older Kids Outside - Outdoor learning is often associated with younger children and there is no reason for that to be the case. Older children need just as much of an excuse to get outside as the younger children do. If anything the older...
BLOG: Outdoor Learning at Home Ideas
Outdoor Learning at Home can often be somewhat a drain if the child has been at their desk all day. So why not try some of our favourite activities to do with children of junior age and KS2 to get them outside and enjoying being active and child-like. ...
Take your Nativity Outside!
Take your Nativity outside and it will be the best thing ynativity you have ever done! Not many of you have big indoor spaces right? So putting all of the children and adults into one room is a tight squeeze. Even thought about doing it outside? A...
5 Home Learning Ideas for World Tiger Day
5 Home Learning Ideas for World Tiger Day by Sarah Seaman For more World Tiger Day teaching Resources click here. Have a go at making a tiger face using face paints. • Look at WWF - how about adopting a tiger? Head to their site WWF and look at all of...
World Tiger Day EYFS
World Tiger Day EYFS by Muddy Teacher Beth World tiger day is a very important day to raise awareness of the beautiful animal that is the tiger. Tigers are an endangered species with less that 3,500 left in the world. Giving the next generations the power and...
Top rain activities for KS2
Top rain activities for KS2 by Muddy Teacher Jacki Getting KS2 children learning in the rain is easier than remembering your ABCs (when you’re the teacher)! A rainwater gauge can be made using an old plastic bottle. Cut around the bottle about two-thirds of the way...
Outdoor learning training
The Muddy Puddle Teacher Approach has everything you need to be a successful outdoor practitioner.
So what exactly does that look like?
- We save you time by training you to use only natural and recycled materials. This way there is little to no prep or clear away. To view our training head this way.
- There is nothing more to be bought once you are trained on our approach.
- You are going to save your school money because this approach is infectious. You will start looking at your waste inside the classroom too! The institute for outdoor learning uk have some great articles on this.
- We connect you with like-minded people, we want you to know you are understood and appreciated with us and know that there are others around you just the same.
- As well as inspiring you, training you, supporting you. We also provide you with hundreds of pick up resources that will give you ideas to take your learning outside. No worksheets allowed!
Many of you may have turned to us to search for – outdoor learning coronavirus- we can help massively with this and maybe it was time for a change anyway? To sign up and join The Muddy Puddle Teachers head this way.
To sign up and join The Muddy Puddle Teachers head this way.