Description
Expand your outdoor construction environment with the Building Vehicles Collection, a specially curated add-on set designed to inspire large-scale vehicle design and imaginative construction play. Developed by Early Excellence specialists, this high-quality collection includes a wide range of open-ended resources that encourage early design and problem solving, gross motor skills and collaborative learning.
Featuring a white pipe, terracotta pipe, and white flexible curved tubing, alongside familiar favourites like wheels, axles, steering wheels and crates, this set allows children to explore real-world vehicle design. The collection supports teamwork, role play and communication as children plan, build and modify their vehicle creations using a range of tools and parts. With opportunities to push, pull, roll and steer, children build strength and coordination while engaging in purposeful physical activity.
Whether children decide to build a fire engine, a double-decker bus, or a farm tractor, they will naturally take on collaborative roles as designers, drivers, mechanics or passengers. Working in small groups, they may begin by collecting materials, deciding how many tyres or planks are needed, and testing how different components fit together. As they negotiate and problem-solve, they’ll explore how to balance and secure their structures, using poles as axles or pipes as exhausts. Once built, the vehicle becomes a dynamic setting for further storytelling perhaps transporting animals to a farm, navigating rough terrain as an off-road rescue truck, or delivering treasure to a hidden island.
Pair with the Building & Construction Resource Collection to create a fully immersive outdoor construction area and add Set of A4 Clipboards or Outdoor Mark Making Resources for children to sketch designs or create signs for their vehicles. For further role play opportunities, combine with the Pirate Role Play Set or Explorer’s Role Play Resource Collection to support storytelling and imaginative journeys.
Durable and weather-resistant, this versatile collection is ideal for year-round outdoor use and provides rich opportunities for language, movement, and early problem-solving.
Learning Opportunities
- Developing coordination and control through lifting, balancing, connecting and steering
- Exploring early mathematical concepts including size, shape, number and spatial awareness through comparing lengths, counting and practical problem-solving
- Building resilience and focus by exploring ideas, testing designs and refining their builds
- Encouraging teamwork through shared planning, building and imaginative storytelling
This Building Vehicles Collection includes:
- 2 Wooden Poles approx. L120cm x Dia 2.5cm
- 2 Steering Wheels
- 4 Tyres with rubber wheels, approx. Dia 37cm
- 3 A4 Black Chalk Boards
- 1 White Flexi Tubing
- 1 White Pipe
- 1 Terracotta Pipe
- 1 Medium Plastic Tub, approx. H29cm x Dia 43cm
- Suitable for age 3 and over
Variations
Many of our resources are produced in a variety of colours and styles and may vary slightly from those shown, however we guarantee that you will always receive the same quality and value.
Secondary images used for representation purposes only.
