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Outdoor Classroom
Make the most of your outdoor learning spaces with our outdoor play ideas. We fill this board with outdoor area eyfs furniture, outdoor outdoor shelters and…
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Outdoor Play
Outdoor Area
Early Years Foundation Stage
Nature Play
Nature Study
Woodlouse
Wood Pigeon
Bird Feeding Station
Classroom Layout
What Activities
Earthworms
Big Garden
Birds and bugs are the most common forms of wildlife spotted in schools and nurseries. This banner provides a range of frequently found creatures. Ideal for hanging inside or out near a bird feeding station, your outdoor area, as playground decorations or in your minibeast habitat or nature study area.
Wooden Clipboard
Writing Area
Wooden Boards
Clipboards
Phonics Activities
Eyfs
Natural Resources
Mark Making
Steady
Ready Steady Write! A range of natural resources for all your writing needs including bamboo pencil pots, dry wipe wooden boards, wooden clipboards and a handy crate to store them all in. Ideal for your EYFS writing area or for mark making outdoors.
Construction Play
Construction Activities
Outdoor Areas
Outdoor Play
Cable Drum
Block Play
Wooden Decks
Gross Motor Skills
Sibford EYFS have done a fab job creating a loose parts ship! What a great way to incorporate team work, imaginative play, role play and construction play.
Small World Play
Miniature Houses
Fern
Little Ones
Cosy
Forest
Supportive
Creative
Material
Here little ones are loving our small world forest fern. Perfect for fairy play and small world play.
Fairy Castle
Play Structures
Big And Small
Forest School
Literacy Activities
Imaginative Play
Bridges
Our purpose built tiered play structures are ideal for encouraging small world play big and small. Stack together for a giant fairy castle or spread out with bridges between for a magical wizard kingdom! The opportunities are endless! Perfect for forest school, literacy activities and fairy play set ups.
School Playground
Outdoor Playground
Cosy Direct
Outdoor Learning Spaces
Homemade Camper
Halfway House
Outdoor Shelters
Outdoor Classroom
Timid
An outdoor version of our super popular ‘pods’ - perfect for the more timid folk in your cohort. These completely open mini shelters allow little ones a secure spot from which to observe and eventually join in. Great for supporting social and emotional development while meeting children exactly where they are. Add pillows, books and blankets and double it up as a reading corner.
Our willow castle panels are ideal for your outdoor area, garden or classroom. Perfect for role play and literacy ideas!
Kids Garden Play Area
Gardening For Kids
Bug Hotel
Minibeasts
Tuff Spot
Outdoor Learning
Mud Pie
Hives
Robust, rugged frame for creating a large minibeast haven. Ideal for situating in a natural space surrounded by native flora. Complements habitat piles and other natural features. Perfect for your outdoor area as a bug hotel!
A natural rustic chair to create your storytelling area outside. Encourage children to tell their own stories or sit and read on this special chair. Great for encouraging outdoor storytelling and outdoor literacy.
Eyfs Outdoor Area
Potting Bench
Literacy Skills
Reference Books
Song Bird
A great addition to your gardening area. This mini potting bench is perfectly sized for younger children. Alternatively, use it as an investigation station. A great place for children to view their natural finds. Add some spotter charts, clipboards, reference books to encourage literacy skills outside. Ideal for your EYFS outdoor area or forest school.
Wooden animal perches with mama and baby badger, hedgehogs. Perfect for storytelling and story gardens!
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Water Tray
Sand And Water
Cascade Water
Sand Play
Mud Kitchen
Literacy Resource
Our new redesigned Cascading Water Stands will bring lots of joy 2023to a group of children. The cascading elements, added funnels, tubes and taps, will allow children to problem solve and maximise the STEM thinking that comes in with water play. Includes: 2 stands, 3 trays, pipe & 2 taps. Large stand: H60x L180x W58cm. 3yrs+.
Cosy Direct | Early Years Ideas and Inspiration
Outdoor Classroom
Wooden Arch
Whitby
Play Houses
The perfect spot to take a perch and relax. Children will love using this outdoor den for reading, having a snack or even a spot of bird watching! Great for indoors or outdoors use.
Toddler Activities
Outdoor Area
Big Bird
A welcoming set up for the RSPB Big Garden Bird Watch! Ideal for toddler activities and EYFS settings to encourage nature exploration.
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Mud Pie Kitchen
Kitchen Kit
Kitchen Corner Units
Outdoor Nursery
Messy Play
Our new kitchen corner units are ideal to add a robust mud kitchen to your outdoor area, playground or garden! So much fun to be had and lots of opportunity for messy play and communication language.
Cosy Direct | Early Years Ideas and Inspiration
Outdoor Classroom
Play Vehicles
Simple Addition
An ingeniously simple addition to your outdoor area. Use as ramps for vehicle races (no more cars falling either side!), for observing gravity and forces, and even include in your construction provision. So versatile!
Outdoor Games
Outdoor Activities
Activities For Kids
Natural Playground
Children will love this superb structure for working in muddy, sandy, or bark areas. The design allows for children to experiment with transporting and problem solving with the pulley and guttering systems. A great outdoor enhancement for your outdoor area and ideal for supporting gross motor play, fine motor play and physical development.
Kids Playhouse
Emotional Development
Reading Corner
An outdoor version of our super popular ‘pods’ - perfect for the more timid folk in your cohort. These completely open mini shelters allow little ones a secure spot from which to observe and eventually join in. Great for supporting social and emotional development while meeting children exactly where they are. Add pillows, books and blankets and double it up as a reading corner.
Physical Development
Peepo! Our new Peekaboo Tower will bring lots of joy to your setting. Encourage children to climb and look out at the world around them. Ideal for physical development and understanding the world in the EYFS.
Castle Drawing
Outdoor Play Equipment
Drawbridge
Play Gym
For the true kings and queens out there! This fab wooden built castle is perfect for encouraging physical development, role play and cooperative play. A real winner for your playground or outdoor area. See our thrones and drawbridge available separately to enhance.
Chalkboard Door
Green Chalkboard
Hedges
Perfect storage to place by interesting hedges, wildlife areas, or peepholes. Comes with a green chalkboard door for mark making, labelling and writing. Ideal for garden storage or outdoor area storage.
Outdoor Structures
We just love this fantastic outdoor platform den. With inbuilt blackboards, children will love adding drawings and mark making, peeping out of the coloured windows, and of course, sitting back and relaxing. A great focal point. Perfect for role play and outdoor areas in the EYFS.
Peekaboo
Playground
Focal
Peepo! Our new Peekaboo Tower will bring lots of joy to your setting. Encourage children to climb and look out at the world around them. Perfect for your outdoor area, forest school or playground to add an exciting focal element!
Our Whitby Wooden Arch is the perfect spot to take a perch and relax. Children will love using this outdoor den for reading, having a snack or even a spot of bird watching! Ideal for outdoor areas, playgrounds and gardens.
Hygge Lifestyle
Hygge Decor
This interactive communication space is inviting for children to come and chat, share a story or simply sit and think. Seating inside and outside to encourage collaboration. Ideal for your playground or outdoor area.
