Description
Enhance your EYFS outdoor environment with the Outdoor Small World Resources Collection 2–3yrs. Carefully curated by Early Excellence education specialists, this set enriches your outdoor learning environment with opportunities for imaginative investigation, early language development and social interaction. Designed specifically for 2-3 year olds, these resources encourage exploration through hands-on storytelling.
Made from high-quality materials, these durable outdoor resources are built to withstand busy EYFS outdoor environments, maintaining children’s interest through repeated use. The collection fosters early communication, social skills, and cognitive development, supporting schema-based behaviours such as positioning, grouping and transformation.
For young learners, this collection offers easy to handle resources and figures that encourage open-ended play. As children arrange farm animals, vehicles and natural materials to create small world scenes, they explore cause and effect, develop an understanding of positioning and balance and explore using objects to represent ideas.
Children can work together to create small habitats, narrate what the animals might do or experiment with adding natural materials such as leaves, Set of Smooth Shells or Set of Mixed Rocks to transform the scene. These shared small world experiences promote early social interaction, collaborative thinking and the use of shared language. As children describe and narrate what they create, they build early communication skills and develop expressive language in line with EYFS goals.
Explore the full range of Small World Resources to enhance your early years outdoor classroom, creating an engaging and inspiring environment where children can learn, explore, and thrive.
Learning Opportunities
- Developing fine and gross motor skills through pushing, pulling, carrying and positioning objects
- Building confidence and independence by selecting materials, sharing and taking turns
- Discovering how actions create effects, such as moving, tipping or filling, supporting early investigation
- Engaging in schematic behaviours such as transporting, connecting and enclosing, encouraging early thinking
Storage Solution
Keep your provision organised and accessible with the Outdoor Small World 2-3yrs storage solution, designed to perfectly store this collection and support easy self-selection in busy early years environments.
This Outdoor Small World Resource Collection 2-3yrs includes:
- 11 Farm Animals, including cows, sheep, pigs and horses
- 1 Truck, 29.5cm x 15cm x 17cm
- 1 Tractor with Trailer, L41cm x H15cm
- 1 Excavator, L30cm x W16.5cm x H21.5cm
- 1 Tractor with Front Loader, L30cm x W17cm x H15cm
- An assortment of natural materials including different sized sticks, logs and driftwood pieces
- Suitable for age 2 and over
Safety Information
For use with children aged 2–3 years only under appropriate adult supervision.
For full safety details, please refer to the Product Care & Safety Guidance Leaflet.
Variations
Many of our resources are produced in a variety of colours and styles and may vary slightly from those shown; however, we guarantee consistent quality and value. Secondary images are for representation only.
