Mud Kitchen Style 2

Mud Kitchen Style 5 is a sturdy and visually appealing outdoor play resource, thoughtfully designed for nursery and early years outdoor play areas. Combining lasting durability with creative design, it offers children a dedicated space to engage in messy play, role play, sensory exploration, and mark making within an outdoor environment.

Crafted from high-quality laminated timber, this mud kitchen is built to provide strength, stability, and resilience for long-term outdoor use. The smooth, child-friendly timber frame integrates naturally into outdoor learning spaces, making it an ideal addition to busy nursery settings that require tough, reliable equipment.

This unit features four stainless steel bowls embedded in the worktop, offering multiple activity stations that encourage group play and collaboration. These bowls are perfect for mixing, pouring, scooping, and experimenting with various loose materials. While mud remains a popular choice, the kitchen also supports creative play with sand, water, bark, gravel, stones, and more—providing year-round versatility and open-ended learning.

Adding to its appeal, the front panels are made from green HDPE and designed to mimic everyday household appliances like ovens and washing machines. These durable, weather-resistant panels enhance imaginative role play by creating a realistic kitchen setting. The HDPE surfaces are easy to clean, ensuring practical upkeep in outdoor environments.

Uniquely, Mud Kitchen Style 5 includes a mark making board, encouraging early literacy and drawing alongside physical play. This feature fosters fine motor skills, creativity, and communication as children explore both tactile and expressive learning.

Supporting collaborative play, communication, and problem-solving, this resource encourages children to share ideas, take turns, and develop essential early years skills.

Proudly manufactured in the UK by ESP PLAY, Mud Kitchen Style 5 embodies exceptional quality, safety, and craftsmanship. It’s a versatile, durable, and engaging addition to any nursery or early years outdoor play space, promoting learning through imaginative and sensory play in a vibrant outdoor setting.

Little Deer Play Tower

The Little Deer Play Tower is an expansive, low-level timber play structure designed for younger children — combining generous scale with age-appropriate challenge. Its extended linear layout spreads play across a wide footprint, encouraging children to journey between towers rather than compete for a single point of interest.

Three towers linked by traverse challenges

Three pitched-roof towers are connected by rope bridges and traversing elements, creating a continuous route from one end of the structure to the other. Because the challenge is horizontal rather than steeply vertical, the Little Deer suits early years and lower primary children who are still developing confidence, balance and coordination. There’s a clear beginning, middle and end to the journey something young children find genuinely motivating.

Varied access and gentle descent

A cargo climbing net and stepped access points offer contrasting ways to reach the decks, while a straight slide provides a rewarding, confidence-building descent. Panels and openings at deck level add points of interest along the route and invite pausing, looking out and playing in place.

Rich play value for younger children

The Little Deer supports physical development through climbing, balancing and traversing; imaginative play within its sheltered tower spaces; and social play as children follow each other along the route, take turns and play alongside one another. Its width means several children can play simultaneously without crowding a real advantage in busy nursery and infant settings.

UK manufactured, built to last

Constructed from laminated timber and manufactured in the UK, the Little Deer is engineered for dimensional stability and a long service life. Laminated sections resist the warping and splitting associated with solid timber, keeping maintenance minimal and total cost of ownership low. Modular construction allows the layout to be specified to suit your site, and every unit is manufactured in full compliance with applicable playground safety standards.

The Little Hedgehog Play Tower from ESP takes an open-deck approach, replacing enclosed roofs with a light, airy frame that keeps clear sightlines across the whole structure, useful on sites where supervision matters, from nursery outdoor areas to busy school playgrounds.

Two linked decks sit at the centre of the unit, edged with timber balustrades and brightly coloured panels punched with portholes and cut-out shapes for peering, posting and imaginative play. A wide moulded slide provides the main descent, with generous side walls and a gentle run-out. Around the perimeter, a climbing wall panel with moulded holds gives an achievable first climbing challenge, while a rope element offers a second route up for children ready to test themselves. Contrasting handholds mark the transitions, helping younger users read the structure and plan their way through it. The open framing beneath the decks creates natural den space for quieter, ground-level play.

Structural components are produced from laminated timber, engineered for dimensional stability. Laminated sections resist the twisting, splitting and surface checking that degrade solid round timber over time, so the unit holds both its appearance and its structural performance through years of continuous outdoor use with noticeably lower maintenance demand across its lifespan.

Manufactured in the UK, the Little Hedgehog gives specifiers shorter lead times, direct technical support and full material traceability. It is fully compliant with BS EN 1176 and supplied with the documentation required for inspection and sign-off.

Well suited to early years settings, primary schools, local authority parks and residential development open space, it delivers strong play value across a compact footprint.

Contact ESP to discuss specification, surfacing, installation and site-specific layouts.

Mud Kitchen Corner Style 8 is a durable and engaging outdoor play unit designed specifically for early years and nursery settings. Created to support creative, sensory, and imaginative play, this thoughtfully designed mud kitchen encourages children to explore, experiment, and learn through hands-on outdoor experiences.

Featuring a themed kitchen design, this Mud Kitchen includes realistic play elements such as an oven, hob, and washing machine, helping to inspire role play and real-world understanding. Combined with a mark making board, children can make notes, write recipes and record information. The unit is fitted with four stainless steel bowls, providing multiple opportunities for mixing, pouring, and exploring different textures and materials. These bowls are hard-wearing, easy to clean, and perfectly suited for busy early years environments.

Manufactured from high-quality laminated timber, this mud kitchen is built to withstand regular outdoor use while maintaining its strength and appearance over time. The robust construction ensures long-lasting performance, and the product is supplied with a lengthy guarantee, offering reassurance and excellent value for nurseries, schools, and early years providers.

Mud Kitchen Corner Style 7 is ideal for group play and collaborative activities, helping children develop communication and language skills as they play together, share ideas, and engage in imaginative storytelling. It provides a versatile play experience, allowing practitioners to tailor activities to learning outcomes and children’s interests.

While traditionally associated with mud, this unit is suitable for use with a wide range of loose materials, including bark, gravel, sand, stones, and natural resources. This flexibility supports sensory exploration and creative learning throughout the year, whatever the setting or season.

Proudly manufactured in the UK by ESP PLAY, Mud Kitchen Corner Style 7 reflects high standards of quality, safety, and craftsmanship. It is the perfect addition to early years and nursery play areas, helping to spark imagination and support learning through play in an inclusive and engaging outdoor environment.