Description
Enhance your outdoor learning environment with the Mud Kitchen Accessories Collection 3–7yrs, a carefully curated set of practical tools and high-quality materials designed to enrich sensory investigation, imaginative thinking, and collaborative exploration. This extensive resource set provides everything needed to create a purposeful, hands-on mud kitchen area.
Designed to be used alongside the Set of Wooden benches, the resource collection features trugs, cauldrons, galvanized bowls, stainless steel bowls, Balti dishes and a wide range of mixing utensils. The collection also includes a stainless-steel cutlery drainer for easy storage and accessibility and mini black tubs and peg blackboards to support purposeful mark-making as children label their mixtures or ingredients.
Each item within the collection has been chosen for its quality, durability and suitability for continuous outdoor use, and provides a versatile and long-lasting addition to your mud kitchen area.
Children can gather natural materials such as soil, sand, leaves, or petals, adding them to the bowls or tubs to create imaginative mixtures. They might use the wooden spoons to stir, the jugs to pour or the cauldrons to “brew” their muddy creations. The stainless-steel ladles, measuring cups and tongs promote coordination, accuracy, and problem-solving as children measure, compare, and combine different quantities and textures. These high-quality tools encourage meaningful exploration of materials, fostering mathematical language, fine motor development, and sustained shared thinking.
Through these open-ended activities, children build confidence and communication as they describe their actions, share ideas, and work collaboratively to create and test new mixtures. The natural materials and real utensils promote understanding of the physical world, supporting early scientific inquiry and outdoor creativity within the Early Years Foundation Stage and KS1.
Add an Outdoor Table & Storage Seating Set or Outdoor Investigation Bench to the mud kitchen area to provide extended spaces for these activities, offering a sturdy and spacious surface for preparing mixtures, displaying materials and encouraging shared investigation. They also support independence and organisation by providing practical storage for resources, helping children to access and return equipment as part of their routine outdoor learning.
Explore the full range of Outdoor Role Play resources to enhance your early years & KS1 outdoor classroom, creating an engaging and inspiring environment where children can learn, explore, and thrive.
Learning opportunities
- Developing curiosity, looking closely and observing cause and effect
- Investigating properties of materials, exploring movement, speed and flow
- Trying new things, taking risks and testing out ideas
- Developing co-ordination with a range of resources and exploring measurement and volume
This Mud Kitchen Resource Collection 3-7yrs includes:
- 5 Graduated Round Trays with approx. Dimensions include 21cm, 25cm, 30cm, 38cm and 42cm wide, circular trays
- Black Trugs, 1 x 14l and 2 x 5l
- 5 Mini Black Trugs, black, approx. H7cm, x Dia 9.5cm
- 5 Mini Blackboard with pegs, 6.8cm x 4.7cm
- 1 large 35cm cauldron and 2 small 24cm cauldrons
- 3 wooden spoons, approx. L35cm
- 1 Black Frying Pan
- 1 Black Saucepan , 14cm
- 2 Mixing Jugs, 1 x 2pt and 1 x 1pt
- 3 Squeezy Sauce Bottle, 24oz, 12oz and 8oz
- 3 Acrylic basters
- Set of Stainless-Steel utensils including a Hamburger turner, ladle, slotted spoon, cooking spoon, food tongs, masher
- 1 set of coconut shell utensils
- Set of 2 Galvanised Bowls, Small and Large
- 1 Set of 4 Stainless Steel Measuring cups
- 1 Stainless Steel Muddler
- 2 Stainless Steel Balti Dishes, 19cm and 15cm diameter
- 2 Stainless Steel Bowls
- 1 Utensil holder, 11cm x 14cm
- 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.
