do some creative or playful things:

• mix some dirt and a little bit of water and paint with mud
• make "clean" mud dough
• make "mud muffins"
• play "Stuck in the Mud". It's just like freeze dance. Sort of. And it's played without mud. :)

read with a buddy or by yourself:

• read Mud by Mary Lyn Ray
• read A New Green Day by Antoinette Portis
• read Yucky Worms by Vivian French — then go dig in the mud for worms
• read Little Blue Truck with a Gospel perspective

write about what you are thinking and seeing and experiencing:

• print these journal response pages as a booklet

share what you have learned with someone else:

• teach this to someone using this guide