{"id":70532,"date":"2025-01-15T19:19:10","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T19:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=70532"},"modified":"2025-01-15T19:19:10","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T19:19:10","slug":"hes-having-fun-why-children-should-be-encouraged-to-play-with-mud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/01\/15\/hes-having-fun-why-children-should-be-encouraged-to-play-with-mud\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018He\u2019s having fun!\u2019: why children should be encouraged to play with mud"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1s5tw4.img?w=768&amp;h=460&amp;m=6\" alt=\"\u2018We felt that our children needed something better\u2019: mud play at Holsworthy Church of England primary school. Photograph: Holsworthy C of E primary school\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Michael Follett is a specialist in children\u2019s play and is passionate about the importance of playing with mud. \u201cIt\u2019s so tactile,\u201d he gushes. \u201cYou can use it as paint. You can squish\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/uknews\/he-s-having-fun-why-children-should-be-encouraged-to-play-with-mud\/ar-AA1s5Fnr?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=7796767ec0f64dbeaf6e9404c1bfee23&amp;ei=84\"> Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Michael Follett is a specialist in children\u2019s play and is passionate about the importance of playing with mud. \u201cIt\u2019s so tactile,\u201d he&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":70533,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-70532","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/kids-play-with-mud.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70532"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70534,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70532\/revisions\/70534"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}