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  • Programs
    • Green Apple Garden Playschool (0-6)
    • Manzanitas Spanish Immersion Playschool (0-6)
    • Apple Scouts Nature Immersion Camp (5-12)
    • Parent/Family Programs
    • School Calendar
    • Tuition Information
    • Scholarship Information
    • Family Policy Handbook
  • About
    • Our COVID-19 Response
    • Our Team
    • Our Board >
      • Board Minutes
    • Our Philosophy >
      • Social Justice Branches
      • Resources
    • FAQ
    • How We Got Started
  • Careers
    • Pay and Benefits
    • Apply
    • Administrative Assistant
    • One-to-One Preschool Aide
    • Apple Scouts Camp Counselor
    • [Hourly] Apprentice Teacher/Maestros Aprendices Job Description
    • [Hourly] Flex Teacher Job Description
    • [Hourly] Substitute Teacher Job Description
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    • Fiesta de la Familia
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    • Sponsor
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Virtual Mud Day Banner: Monday, June 29, 2020

Virtual Mud Day Challenge All Month Long

Run, Hike, Garden, Play! Sign up online to choose your own muddy adventure and help us reach our goal of raising $10,000 and tracking 10,000 Muddy Minutes between June 1st and June 29th. Go for a trail run, take a nature hike, dig in your garden, dive into a mud pit, make a mud pie or create a muddy work of art. Choose your activities, have fun, and log your muddy minutes! One price registers you or your whole family AND gets you discounted tickets to the in-person Mud Day Mayhem event. Don't forget to invite friends and family to join in the fun and donate to Apple Playschools' Scholarship Fund! 

In-Person Mud Day Mayhem Event

Saturday June 18th, 10am-12pm
Cost: $10/person or $35/family
@ Leslie Science and Nature Center, 1831 Traver Road, Ann Arbor

​Get muddy and messy with Apple Playschools at our International Mud Day Celebration! Pre-register you and your family to dive into the wonders of mud with hands-on activities in the nature play area and along the trail. Make mud pies, explore mud paint, build mud sculptures, follow animal tracks and more. Space is limited. Pre-registration is required and begins online June 1st. Masks are encouraged for people over 2. Please stay home if you are feeling sick.
Challenge Sign Up and Tickets available here!

Host a partner event or support our scholarship fund as a Mud Day Sponsor! View our sponsor packet:

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Looking for ways to increase your Mud Day fun?
Check out our video line up!

 Mud Day Scavenger Hunt! All the items on our list are connected to dirt somehow. Can you find these things near you? 
 Mud Stomping Song in English and in Spanish.
 Mud Face Paint! Face paint is a great addition to pretend play!
 Sensory Play! Mixing dirt and water for infants and toddlers and big kids too!
 Mud Ball Toss! What’s more fun than making balls out of mud? Throwing them with a satisfying splat!
 Healthy dirt pudding cups! Celebrate with this tasty treat. 
 Bird Nest Sculptures! Create a bird nest sculpture using mud and sticks.
 Read aloud: Mud Puddle by Robert Munsch and Dusan Petricic Even though we love getting our clothes muddy, the character in this book does not.  
 Mud Painting! Get out your paint brush for a Mud Painting adventure!
 Fairy houses! Build your own fairy house with Mud! 
 Clay writing tablets! Learn how to write and create art on wet clay tablets as people did in ancient Mesopotamia.
 Dig in the garden! What invertebrates did you find living underground!
 Ooey Gooey Mud Song! Keep Celebrating Mud Day everyday with this song.   

History

Want to learn more about the history of Mud Day? Click here!
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Green Apple Garden Lower Playschool

Green Apple Garden Upper Playschool

Manzanitas Spanish Immersion Playschool

Laura Wolfe, Director
734-773-3182
2664 Miller Rd. 
Ann Arbor, MI 48103
Brandi Siemers, Director
734-369-6563
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511 Miller Ave. 
Ann Arbor, MI 48103
Leticia Diaz-Gonzalez, Director
734-975-9104
2626 Packard St. 
Ann Arbor, MI 48104

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