09/03/2026
🦒👩🍳 "I’m making your dinner spicy. The flowers are the spice!"
A 3-year-old making mud soup might look like nothing more than messy pretend play. But take a closer look—there’s a whole lot of learning happening.
As children scoop, pour, stir, imagine, and create, they’re developing motor skills, language, math and science concepts, problem-solving skills, empathy, and so much more. So when it looks like they’re “just playing”… are they?
At CCNS, we believe playing is learning, and learning is playing. 🌱
Click below to read our latest blog post and discover what your child is really learning through play. 👇
https://cupertinocoop.org/blogs/the-mud-kitchen-what-is-it-good-for
My daughter was playing in the mud kitchen at school. She was pretending to be a chef, and as I took this picture she announced, “I'm making your dinner spicy. I know you like spice in your food. The flowers are the spice!” … READ MORE