Welcome to Kids' Corner!

Here are some cool muddy pictures and stories to keep you going until you can get your boots on and get down to the beach for real

Kids love to explore the muddy beaches of Puget Sound. Now you can discover the shoreline from home to get ready for your next trip.

While you're here, you can:

  • Find your photo with the Mud Monster
  • Learn of family-friendly beach activities happening where you live
  • Find out if an expert can join you on a group trip to the shore
  • Download our Creature Feature coloring pages and activity guides

These Creature Feature pages are fun to color, but they’re great activity planners too! Use them to plan your next family outing to the shoreline.

Puget Sound
There’s so much to see on our shore – if you know where to look.
Coloring Creature Feature No. 1: Puget Sound
Eelgrass
Discover all the critters living in eelgrass, the humble plant that powers the life around our shoreline.
 Coloring Creature Feature No. 2: eelgrass
Aliens have landed
People aren’t the only critters who like to move to the Sound…find out how to tell who’s who.
 Coloring Creature Feature No. 3: aliens have landed
 Kelp forest
These forests of the ocean are teeming with life.
 Coloring Creature Feature No. 4: kelp forest
Seya's beach
Learn how the Northwest Native Americans have long harvested Puget Sound’s abundance.
 Coloring Creature Feature No. 5: Seya's beach
 Lights in the Water
Discover how the ocean lights up at night like the starry sky above.


 Coloring Creature Feature No. 6: Lights in the Water

Why not draw your own Creature Feature and send it to us? The Mud Monster loves seeing what's out there in the Sound.

 

 

 

 

Kids at the shoreline with Ron Hirshi

Kids love visiting the shoreline with naturalist Ron Hirschi.

MudUp Progress Monitor
Goal: Create 10 Parks and Natural Areas
(Progress to date: 5 parks)
Goal: Restore 100 miles of shoreline
(Progress to date: 38 miles)
Goal: Protect 1000 miles of shoreline
(Progress to date: 872 miles)
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