Play Stone Tower
This versatile Play Stone Tower is perfect to inspire new stories and retell familiar tales through imaginative play. An ideal size to use with a range of play figures, this lifelike play prop will open-up wealth of storytelling opportunities: who lives in the castle – a beautiful princess, a magical dragon or an angry ogre? A great resource to inspire children’s imagination and develop prepositional language skills by positioning characters on, inside, behind or next to the Stone Tower!
Made from a unique stone mix which is easy to clean, it is durable for play inside and outdoors – in water, sand and mud, offering limitless opportunities for storytelling!
Play Shell
Create a small world splash with this Play Shell — a beautifully realistic conch-shaped prop, perfect for creating imaginative underwater adventures! An ideal size to use with a range of play figures and underwater animals, this versatile shell helps children improve prepositional language as they position creatures inside, next to or under the Shell.
Children will enjoy exploring and discussing underwater habitats and the animals that might live in them, opening up rich storytelling opportunities. Whether retelling familiar tales or inventing new ones, this shell encourages language development and vocabulary growth as part of imaginative play.
Made from a unique stone mix, this tactile Play Shell adds depth to any small world setup, inside and outdoors in water, sand, or mud!
Nature Collection – Sensory Play Stones
This beautiful collection of sensory play stones shaped as leaves, flowers, birds and butterflies, is perfect for nature-based activities to help nurture children’s imagination and curiosity about the natural world. Designed for outdoor learning and investigative play, they are durable enough to be used in water, soil, mud and play clay! This collection provides plenty of language-rich play and learning opportunities; Children will enjoy creating woodland scenes, making imprints in dough, and enhancing their observation skills as they sort by characteristics. Made from a stone mix.
The collection contains the following Sensory Play Stones which may be used separately or together to inspire play and further learning:
Leaves – Sensory Play Stones
This beautiful set of 12 leaves in seasonal tones will help grow children’s imagination and curiosity about the natural world. Designed for outdoor learning and investigative play, these leaves are durable enough to be used in water, soil, mud and play clay, and easily cleaned! Wonderfully sensory, the details can be felt as well as seen. Children will delight in making imprints in play clay and taking rubbings using wax crayons.
Set of 12 stones consisting of six pairs of leaves with seasonal tones. Leaves included from the following trees: apple, beech, cherry, maple, oak and silver birch. Made from a durable stone and resin mix. Approximate height 55–85mm / 2–3⅓”. Safe for children Age 2+
Natural Sorting Stones – Nature Collection
Ignite children’s curiosity and creativity with this collection of 36 beautifully tactile stones in three sizes and 12 natural colours. Perfect for small world and outdoor play, these stones encourage open-ended exploration, as children build forests, oceans, deserts, or mountains. As they create different natural landscapes, they’ll enjoy exploring the environments and the animals that might live in them, opening up rich storytelling opportunities.
This versatile set is also an excellent resource for early maths. Children can use the stones for counting, sorting by size and tone and creating patterns. The calming weight and texture of the stones make them ideal for sensory and mindfulness activities, while the different tones can be used to help children describe and explore emotions.
Durable and easy to clean, these stones can be used with mud, water, or sand, making them a wonderful addition to both indoor and outdoor settings.
Nature-Inspired Loose Parts Collection
This Nature-Inspired Loose Parts Collection includes nine unique designs, designed to encourage language-rich, imaginative play through woodland, ocean, and polar themes. Children can create a woodland with rustling leaves, intriguing pine cones, and log slice stepping stones. The ocean brings swirling waves, beautiful shells, and fascinating corals, while the polar theme offers towering icebergs, floating ice sheets, and deep snow!
Ideal for use in play dough, the stones are engraved on one side and smooth on the other, encouraging open-ended exploration and tactile engagement. Each theme sparks discussions about the habitats and the animals that might live there. Enrich small-world play by using natural materials such as sticks, moss, and sand to create lifelike environments and related habitats.
Made from a stone mix, they are tough enough to be used in mud, water, sand and playdough.
Tree Stump
This realistic tree stump is a perfect habitat for limitless woodland and enchanted world play. With hiding places and platforms, children will enjoy making the ideal home for their forest and magical characters. Made from a durable stone and resin mix, it can be used for outdoor play in leaves, mud, sand and water. This small world prop stimulates storytelling, language and vocabulary development. Measures 135mm high. Safe for age 2+.
In all Weathers!
This book is crammed full of creative and innovative ideas to help add the ‘great’ to ‘outdoors’! The 50 activities will help you to embrace the rich possibilities of learning outside, whatever the weather and space available. The activities include learning from nature, outdoor investigations, imaginative play, stories old and new, and seasonal celebrations. Each activity follows the same format for ease of reference: starter, resources, main activity, extension ideas, reflections and links to the EYFS. A fantastic book for all settings wanting to take more learning outdoors or for those involved in forest schools. Written by Sam Goddard, an experienced forest school leader, this practical handbook with clear theoretical grounding will prepare practitioners well for purposeful outdoor adventures.
Play Habitats Kit
This collection of small world play props will instantly set the scene for a variety of habitats. Whether you are setting up a polar environment, woodland theme or underwater cave, these versatile resources can be used alongside imaginative play figures and natural materials to create enticing landscapes. They will inspire storytelling and language development, both indoors and outside, as the durable stone and resin mix they are made from make them suitable for use in mud, soil, sand, grass and water. Includes four props: Play Igloo (105mm high), Play Cave (115mm high), Tree Stump (135mm high) and Hollow Log (230mm long). Safe for age 2+.
Let’s Investigate – Dinosaur Footprints
Beware – the dinosaurs are coming! These intriguing footprints are guaranteed to excite children’s curiosity and capture their imagination. Each stone shows a dinosaur footprint on one side and its owner on the other. Perfect to encourage early investigation skills as children examine, compare and sort the eight footprints: Apatosaurus, Deinonychus, Hypsilophodon, Iguanodon, Quetzalcoatlus, Stegosaurus, Triceratops and Tyrannosaurus Rex. Children will enjoy making crayon rubbings, impressions in play dough, footprint trails, and comparing the different shapes of the footprints and characteristics of the dinosaurs. Made from our unique stone mix, they are durable for use outdoors: in mud, sand, water, or soil. Contains 8 double-sided stones (90 x 60mm). Age 2+.
