The invention discloses a method for preparing water-permeable bricks and belongs to the technical field of preparation of building materials. The method comprises the steps of sieving tidal-flat mud, drying the sieved mud in the air, then, mixing the dried mud with deionized water, carrying out centrifugation and separation, collecting tidal-flat sand, drying so as to prepare dried tidal-flat sand granules, adding bentonite and the like into the dried tidal-flat sand granules, carrying out ball milling so as to obtain mixed ball-milled powder, mixing the mixed ball-milled powder with water glass, standing so as to obtain curing pug, carrying out compression molding and demolding so as to obtain a cold-pressed semifinished material, carrying out ball milling on quartz and the like, sieving so as to obtain ball-milled glaze powder, carrying out ultrasonic dispersion treatment with a polyvinyl alcohol solution and the like, then, soaking the cold-pressed semifinished material in the dispersion, taking out the semifinished material, drying, and then, carrying out preheating, heat insulation and calcination in a tunnel kiln, thereby preparing the water-permeable bricks. The method has the beneficial effects that preparation steps of the method are simple, and the obtained water-permeable bricks are good in water-permeable durability, have the coefficient of water permeability of 5.78*10<-2>cm/s to 7.12*10<-2>cm/s and are not easily plugged up by dust; the water-permeable bricks have relatively high compressive strength which reaches 38.25MPa to 45.60MPa.