hazy torrents of rain
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2025 Mud Pie Bake Off
Welcome to the 2025
Mud Pie Bake Off!
June 25th-July 1st
It's time to get your hands dirty and your imaginations soaring! Every year for the last nine years, I've held a Mud Pie Bake-Off to help celebrate International Mud Day!
The Mud Pie Bake-Off is a playful celebration of nature, creativity, and community - now in its ninth year.
Children and families from around the world are invited to step outside, dig into the earth, and whip up their most glorious, whimsical mud creations.
🌿 How to Enter
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Starting on June 25, 2025 Head outside and make a mud pie (or cake, tart, or pastry!) using only natural elements - mud, flowers, leaves, rocks, berries, bark, pinecones… the wilder, the better.
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Take a photo or short video of your finished dish.
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Share it on Instagram using the hashtag #mudpie2025.
- Follow Wilder Child at @awilderchild and @thebackwoodsmama on Instagram
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Encourage a friend to join!
No Instagram? No problem. Email your entry to info@wilderchild.com with the subject “Mud Pie 2025.”
🎁 Prizes
All entries will be entered into a random drawing. This isn’t about perfection - it’s about joy, creativity, and connection.
🥇 Grand Prize - A full-year membership to the Kids Moon Club.
🥈 Runner-Up - A copy of the children's book Wilder Child by Nicolette Sowder and pre-ordered copy of Beyond the Front Door Embracing Nature for a Healthier Happier Family by Josée Bergeron
🥉 Third Place - A $50.00 gift certificate to the Outdoor School Shop.
Winners will be announced live on July 3 on Instagram.
📅 Event Timeline
| Wed, June 25 | The Mud Pie Bakeoff Week Begins! |
| June 25 – June 30th | Make & Share Your Mud Pie – Head outside, get inspired, and post your entry anytime during the week. |
| Wed, June 30th (11:59 PM ET) | Entry Deadline – Make sure your mud pie is shared or emailed before midnight! |
| Thurs, July 3 | Winners Announced tune in on Instagram as we celebrate and reveal this year’s prize recipients! |
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MEET YOUR HOSTS
Meet your hosts of this year's Mud Pie Bake Off!
Wilder Child
Nicolette Sowder
Nicolette Sowder is the founder of Wilder Child and the originator of the Wildschooling movement, a philosophy of nature-bonded, village-led education rooted in seasonal rhythms, ecological reciprocity, and ancestral ways of knowing.
She is the author of the children’s book Wilder Child, a lyrical celebration of belonging, wonder, and kinship with the wild. Her work invites families, educators, and caregivers to step outside the bounds of conventional learning and into a deeper, more reciprocal relationship with the Earth.
Backwoods Mama
Josée
Bergeron is a French-Canadian Indigenous Métis who has been helping
parents feel at home in nature since 2009. As a mother of five, ages two
to seventeen, Bergeron has over a decade-and-a-half of experience
guiding both her children as well as other families into nature. Viewed
as parenting expert on the topic of raising outdoor kids and
parent-child-nature connection Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC),
Active for Life, Explore Magazine and in other parenting books such as
Oh Crap, I Have A Toddler by Jamie Glowacki and The Call of the Wild and
Free: Reclaiming the Wonder in Your Child’s Education. Bergeron has a
forthcoming book Beyond the Front Door: Embracing Nature for a Happier, Healthier Family set to be released Spring 2026.
