Our Mud Pie Kitchen

While clicking around in the Summer edition of Rhythm of the Home, I came across this awesome idea!! As soon as I saw the photos my heart skipped a beat and I started making a thrift store list for our own mud pie kitchen!!

It didn’t take us long to find just what we needed!!

First, I picked a nice shady spot in our yard. Not too far from the hose and close to lots of dirt and sand, sticks and leaves. All the essentials for good, messy fun. Something my kids love!

Next, we headed to the thrift store to stock our kitchen—think little and cheap. Pots, pans, muffin tins, cups, bowls, silverware…..

These make the perfect little molds and were only 30 to 50 cents a piece! Besides the fact they are pretty and shiny!!

More pretty, shiny, cheap staples that every kitchen must have… a beautiful bright yellow tea pot and pitcher.

The appliances were a little more tricky to find. It took a second trip to the store–but we totally lucked out and found the black shelf marked $5.00 and the little book shelf marked $2.96 and both were half off.

Let me tell you– this has been a bustling kitchen… breakfasts, coffee, lunch and dinner and don’t forget dessert–lots and lots of desserts!!

Oh …and lots of soup

All served on a table the girls made out of some scraps of wood they found above the garage— and then painted with glitter paint. Yes, they are my girls!!

And when the meal is over….you must wash the dishes!

If you need any recipe suggestions, Ginger highly recommends this cook book

What’s cookin’ in your mud pie kitchen?

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Posted in 3-D and Activities and cooking and Experiments and Messy and Nature and Outside and Recipes and science and Sculpture and unschooling by Kristen on July 7th, 2010 at 12:18 pm.

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sarah in the woods Jul 7th 2010

Oh lovely! We did this too. I think my daughter would really like the book, but we haven’t bought it yet. Happy cooking!
Wendy Jul 7th 2010

What a fantastic idea! Our kids just might be a bit too old for this, but maybe not.
roxie Jul 7th 2010

Oh , I love this ! I so wish I had a little one to play with like that still ! secretly because I would so love to play in that kitchen ! I am going to send this to my dd24 to see if we could do this at her place for our gradson . my dd loved this type of play so much as a child , I think your post will spark something for her ? Thanks you so much
Lynne Jul 7th 2010

what a lovely spot! I can envision this out behind our shed by the woods and lots of shade and dirt! Thanks for the book recommendation Ginger – sounds perfect!
Sheila C Terry Jul 7th 2010

I love this! I wish I had littler ones that still played with mud and a messy part of the yard that I could set this up.
Sunshine Mama Jul 14th 2010

I love Rhythm of the home, but I have not seen this post in it. I might have to go back and check every bit of it to see what I missed! I love, love, love this idea. We live in an apaprtment right now, but I hope they would still be in the “making mud pie” phase when we buy a home in about a year or two. THanks for the lovely inspiration!

Stephanie
jenny @ let the children play Jul 18th 2010

I love it! We are big on mud play at preschool and this looks simply irresistible.
Kika Jul 20th 2010

What a fabulous idea. Today my girls and I created a “mud kitchen” for them, using supplies we had in the kitchen & garage. It looks wonderful (although we’ll look for a few more dishes at the local “take-it-or-leave-it” this weekend). They promptly began playing/creating in it and stayed for hours till I forced them inside I shared a link to this post over at another blog but can’t recall which one! Oops!
Kika Jul 20th 2010

I found it – it was Simple Mom – July 14 posting (if it matters).
Tracie Jul 20th 2010

Hi Kristen, I love this kitchen idea. I’m going to set one of these up for my neice’s little girl at my Mom’s. Last time she was here we made a mermaid cave with seashells and pretty blankets – she played in there for hours so this should be a hit.
Marghanita Hughes Jul 22nd 2010

Love, love, love this post. Mud Glorious Mud. Kids were meant to get dirty.

http://www.marghanita.com/kids-love-dirt-mud-glorious-mud/
Jo Jul 23rd 2010

I LOVE THIS!!!!! would be great in our EARLY YEARS / Foundation Stage playground!
Will spread the word!
GettingFreedom Jul 23rd 2010

Absolutely clever! My daughter (well, my boys too) would spend hours creating mud pies in a kitchen like that!
Elisabeth Jul 24th 2010

I love this so, so much. You have just fulfilled many of my childhood fantasies, as did that gorgeous book. My own sweet darling wanted nothing to do with it, I regret to say, but it was a coffee table book for a while. You did a great job- lucky Ginger (and Molly and Jake!).
Cathy @ NurtureStore Jul 27th 2010

My kids would be in heaven here x
Cia Dreves Jul 30th 2010

Love, love, love this. What a wonderful idea and how well done. WOW!
Melissa (MamaWhimsy) Apr 4th 2011

We’ve been wanting to do this since we saw yours and the Rhythm of the home posts last summer. Today, we finally made one. I linked back to your post as a source of inspiration:
http://simple-whimsy.blogspot.com/2011/04/outdoor-mud-pie-kitchen.html
Coasting anon Jun 11th 2012

Hey there…wanted to let you know I featured this on FLOR’s design blog, Musings, this morning. Great job!!

http://www.flor.com/blog/natural-outdoor-playspaces/

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