Squirrel Play Tower

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.

Deer Play Tower

The Deer Play Tower is a wide-span, multi-tower timber structure built for the demands of a primary school playground. Its extended layout creates a full play journey from one end to the other, with enough capacity to keep large groups of children active, engaged and moving at break and lunchtime.

Three towers, one continuous route

Three pitched-roof towers are linked by rope bridges and traversing sections, forming a connected circuit at deck level. Primary-aged children respond well to structures with a clear route and a sense of progression, the Deer gives them somewhere to go, a challenge to overcome on the way, and a reason to come back and try a different line the next day.

Graduated physical challenge

Access options include a cargo climbing net, ladder and stepped entry points, each offering a different level of difficulty so children can choose the challenge that suits their confidence and ability. Rope bridge crossings develop balance, core stability and dynamic coordination, while a climbing wall panel builds grip strength and problem-solving. A slide provides a fast, satisfying descent and keeps the flow of play moving.

Broad play value

The Deer supports physical, social, imaginative and cooperative play in a single structure. Bridges and traverses demand focus and body awareness; the width of the structure allows numerous children to play at once without bottlenecks; sheltered tower spaces invite role play, conversation and quieter retreat; and shared routes naturally encourage turn-taking, encouragement and negotiation between peers.

UK manufactured, built for longevity

Made from laminated timber and manufactured in the UK, the Deer is engineered for dimensional stability and a long working life in a demanding open play environment. Laminated sections resist the warping and splitting common to solid timber, keeping maintenance low and total cost of ownership down. Modular construction allows the configuration to be matched to your site, and every Deer Play Tower is manufactured in full compliance with applicable playground safety standards.

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.