Stuck in the mud is really a playground game but can be adapted to the family setting.
Within a defined boundary area, one person is ‘it’. They must then run around trying to tag as many people as they can. When they have tagged another person who was not ‘it’, that person is ‘stuck in the mud’.
The victim must stand with legs and arms out and they cannot move. The only way to release them is if another person who is not stuck goes under the person that is stuck to free them. Once a person has been caught, they then have to stand with feet shoulder width apart and can only be freed if someone crawls between their legs. The rules can be that freeing means you can go through the person’s legs, or if that is not working for you, under their arms.
As there are very few players, it is a good idea to have a home base, or two home bases meaning a safe area of the playing field that ‘it’ can’t access. ‘It’ must not hover at the outskirts of the home base. Another rule means ‘it’ must not stand in front of stuck players.
This continues for about 5-10 minutes or until everybody is stuck.