Mud Kitchen Style 4

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.

The Owl Play Tower from ESP is a twin-tower climbing structure designed for sites that need a genuine physical challenge from their play equipment, not just a slide with steps attached.

Two pitched-roof towers form the core of the unit, connected at deck level and served by a range of routes up. A stainless steel slide gives a fast, weather-resistant descent that stays usable year-round and stands up to heavy public traffic. Around the towers sit an angled scramble net with timber footholds, green mesh climbing panels set into the frame, and a rope traverse strung between posts that asks children to commit to their balance across an open span. A stepped timber platform gives access from the far side, so groups can circulate through the structure rather than queuing at a single entry point. Beneath the raised decks, the open timber framing creates natural den and shade space for quieter 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 Owl holds both its appearance and its structural performance through years of continuous outdoor use with reduced maintenance demand.

The Owl is manufactured in the UK, giving specifiers shorter lead times, direct technical support and full material traceability. It is fully compliant with BS EN 1176 and supplied with the documentation needed for inspection and sign-off.

Suited to local authority parks, school playgrounds, nurseries and residential development open space, the Owl Play Tower delivers high play value across a compact footprint, working either as a standalone centrepiece or as part of a wider scheme.

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

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.

Badger Play Tower

The Badger Play Tower is a compact three-tower timber structure that delivers substantial play value from a modest footprint. Its balance of capacity, durability and specification-friendly design makes it a natural fit for housebuilder amenity spaces, school playgrounds and public open spaces alike.

Three towers in a compact footprint

Three pitched-roof towers sit close together, linked at deck level to form a connected play space without the sprawl of a larger unit. For housebuilders working to planning-condition play space requirements, this efficiency matters, the Badger delivers genuine play variety on plots where every square metre is accounted for. For schools and parks, the same compactness leaves room around the structure for running, games and free play.

Varied access and descent

Stepped access, ladder climbers and stair entry give children different ways up, offering graduated challenge so less confident climbers can progress at their own pace alongside more able peers. A wide straight slide provides a fast, rewarding descent, while linking decks and rails encourage movement between towers rather than queuing at a single point.

Play value across ages

The Badger supports physical development through climbing, stepping and descending; imaginative and role play within its sheltered, roofed tower spaces; and social play as children move between levels, take turns and coordinate with one another. The multi-tower arrangement means several children can play simultaneously without crowding an important consideration for residential schemes and school sites where peak-time demand is high.

Laminated timber, UK manufactured

The Badger is constructed from laminated timber and manufactured in the UK. Laminated sections resist the warping, twisting and splitting common to solid timber, holding their form through years of weather exposure. The result is a structure that needs limited maintenance, keeps whole-life costs down, and is manufactured in full compliance with applicable playground safety standards — giving specifiers, developers and site managers confidence from installation onwards.