The Mud Zone at the Minnesota Children's Museum is exactly what it sounds like. An outside portion of the St. Paul museum has two giant bins filled with dirt, vessels like pie tins and bowls and ...

As the ground outside starts to thaw and we coax our kids back into regular outdoor play, it might be time to get them set up with nature’s greatest sensory activity—the mud kitchen. Katie Lear, a ...

Mud was slung and flung Saturday morning at Reid Park. But instead of politicians doing the dirty deed, it was thousands of kids and their parents who got sloppy during the third annual Mud Monster ...

I was not a down-in-the-dirt kind of mom – or child, for that matter. I preferred sitting on a blanket on the grass rather than rolling around in the grass. Growing up with two brothers who always ...

Parents work tirelessly their whole lives to teach kids not to play in the mud, but that rule was thrown out the window Sunday as more than 200 kids got to do just that. The fifth-annual Serious Fun ...