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• Mud, mud, glorius mud at Mile End Park

• Date:

  12th May 2008

• Contact:

  Sarah Egerton

• Organisation:

  The Civic Trust

Hundreds of youngsters enjoyed the art of getting muddy at Mile End Park in London during its first Festival of Earth celebration.

There was a mud café, with lots of kitchen utensils for making mud pies and they also got back to nature weaving willows into igloo shapes to build dens. The children also got involved with clay modelling.

The free event took place on Saturday, April 26 and was aimed at children between the ages of four and 11. It was one of a series of festivals that the park will be holding this year. In the summer the park will be holding a Festival of Water involving the fountains and another called the Festival of Wind. Details will be published in East End Life.

Mile End Park is home to a number of other events and activities. It is involved this year in Love Parks Week, a national celebration of parks, between June 14 and 22.

Last year’s popular Big Land Draw, which saw the creation of a giant spider in the Art Park, will be repeated on June 21 and 22, this time creating a 25m x 25m dragonfly on the ground using natural materials such as rice, lentils, soil and grass.