We had a great time at the Mud Run party for my ten year old boy. It was a lot of work {for my husband} but a lot of fun. The party goers (mostly the boys) said what a great party it was over and over again. The best comment was from my friend. She told her son to get as dirty as he wanted and to throw all the mud he wanted because she was NEVER going to have a party like this for him!
We are cool parents!
Our invite just said "Bring on the mud!" I printed it on card stock with a brown background... easy and effective. We told the invitees to wear something to get muddy, bring a change of clothes, and a towel. This was a 2 hour party including food, cake, and presents.
We lined a path to the bathroom with Plastic Drop Cloths, 9' x 12'
- a helpful hint to keep the dirt off the floor as much as possible.
- a helpful hint to keep the dirt off the floor as much as possible.
I made this DIY Mason Jar hand wipes so they could wash their hands without going inside.
Here are the obstacles we had. It does help to have some property to dig up. You could probably do the deeper pits shallow if you needed to keep your grass pretty.
All of our mud was top soil purchased from Walmart. We did not want to use the sand out of the yard because we did not know what kinds of organisms were living there. {yuck}
We used Caution Tape, 1000'
to rope off the course- it added some color and some spunk!
to rope off the course- it added some color and some spunk!
When I say "we" I really me "he". I coordinated invitations, food and drinks. :)
This was the slip and slop. Using plastic sheeting we made a slip and slide that slid right into a pool of mud. We added a little baby soap to make it super slippery and kept the hose running on it the whole time. The kids congregated to this even after they were done running. It was definitely a fun one!
The spider web was not muddy but a way to add an obstacle to the course. We tied up random strings to two trees.
This is a baby pool filled with night crawlers we purchased from the bait shop. It was to add a little yuck. The kids started throwing the worms on each other- quite fun!
This obstacle was like barbed wire. My son created it with some orange tape. They had to crawl under the tape in a pile of mud.
This was called the tunnel of yuck. My husband used pallets to make the tunnel, threw some old bags of mulch under it and some left over popcorn {?} from the movies. The mulch really did not smell good during the hot summer day. He ran a tube sprinkler over the top that continued to sprinkle down water the entire run.
We also did an over under obstacle using the caution tape. My husband dug out two pits. With the caution tape, the kids had to go under into the pit, jump the tape, and then under into another pit.
We added in some tires just to run through also.
Overall, tons of fun! Some manual labor is involved but this party really does make you cool parents!
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