Muddy area for DC to dig/play in?

[DaisyChainsForever]

Does anyone have a space in their garden that is solely for DC to dig/play in the mud? Interested to see pics if you do. Considering getting rid of my rockery and allowing DS to use it instead, but worried about the day to day practicalities of stopping mud going everywhere! It's an unloved space at the moment, so won't miss it.

I suppose mud is why people started making sandpits.

How old is DS? Could he not just play on the rockery - loads of possibilities for creative play? A whole miniature landscape just requiring imagination.

When I was young my digging was in a heap of gravel my parents hadn't got around to spreading - tunnels were much less likely to suffer from roof collapse than in sand. But once I got beyond reception age it was much more about dens - we had a "shrubbery" that I spent much of my time in.

My own DSs didn't do much digging, so once I was less scared about DS2 falling off climbing frames (when he was about 3 or 4), we moved it into the clump of trees at the end of the garden so it doubled as a sort of tree house.

'Caves' , rocky 'volcanoes' are great for dinosaur land. And you can paint stones to add to the variety as another option.
You could lay some ground cover fabric which lets the water through then just gets bags of sand from builders or garden centres.

We have an area which DS have as their area and are allowed to do whatever they want. My oldest DS has planted raspberries this year though so it’s not too wild. It had meant they don’t touch my flower beds though so worth it for me and allows them to be creative. Mud travels-they go in the shower or get hosed down...

We do. Its been consistently the most played with thing in the garden for the last 6 years. It used to be a veg patch but now just soil. It occasionally gets turned into a mud bath but mainly just digging, worm catching and burying stuff for each other to dig up. Its always a hit with visiting children too

Sorry!! I didn't get any notifications that anyone had replied 🙈 DS is nearly 3. We have now decided to build a small patio area there, so DS can have an outside water/mud kitchen there. Slightly less messy for me, but still lots of fun for him.