Description
Enhance your outdoor provision with the Picnic Role Play Resource Collection 3–7yrs, a carefully curated set of high-quality resources that supports communication, collaboration, and imaginative experiences for children across EYFS and into KS1. This complete collection includes child-sized deckchairs, picnic hampers, a weather-resistant blanket, and a variety of picnic-themed accessories designed to inspire meaningful interactions and shared storytelling.
Picnic scenarios are highly engaging and familiar to young children, offering rich opportunities to explore everyday routines and social behaviours. As children set up their own picnic area, unpack lunchboxes, and share pretend food, they engage in conversations, practise turn-taking, and develop confidence in expressing ideas.
This collection supports personal, social and emotional development, inspiring children to role play familiar people and situations as they collaborate with their peers. For children in KS1, offers valuable opportunities. Extend speaking and listening skills, strengthen vocabulary, and encourage creative writing through retelling and inventing stories linked to familiar experiences.
Children might lay out the blanket and arrange deckchairs for a teddy bears’ picnic, using good manners as they take turns offering food and drinks to their guests. They may sort items into hampers, decide who is ‘bringing what’, or write a guest list using A4 Clipboards or Outdoor Mark Making resources. Others might act out birthday celebrations, sing songs, or take on roles such as chef, server, or party organiser which builds confidence, develops narrative skills, and explores relationships through imaginative play.
Designed to withstand regular use in busy outdoor settings, each resource is hard-wearing and easy to clean, making it ideal for year-round use in your outdoor classroom. The flexible, open-ended nature of the materials also supports wider learning across the EYFS and KS1 curriculum, from expressive arts and design to understanding the world.
Explore the full range of Outdoor Role Play resources to enhance your early years outdoor classroom, creating an engaging and inspiring environment where children can learn, explore, and thrive.
Learning Opportunities
- Developing language and communication skills through shared storytelling and dialogue
- Exploring roles, routines and relationships through imaginative experiences
- Building confidence and cooperation during group-based, social interactions
- Supporting early writing, drawing and expressive outcomes linked to familiar experiences
This Picnic Role Play Resource Collection 3-7yrs includes:
- 2 Outdoor Deckchairs, approx. Height: 48cm, Depth: 48cm, Overall Width: 43cm, Seat Width: 29cm
- 2 Traditional Willow Picnic Hampers, approx. 14” and 18”
- 1 Picnic Blanket with weatherproof backing
- Pretend Food featuring 2 large bread rolls, 2 small bread rolls, 4 slices of bread, 4 large croissants, 4 brown eggs, 4 cookies, 2 blackberry tarts, 2 raspberry tarts, 2 apples, 2 pears, 2 oranges and 2 small bananas
- Picnicware featuring 4 dinner plates, 4 tumblers and 4 bowls - made from strong melamine. Complete with 4 lunch boxes, cutlery and 2 Flasks
- Suitable for age 3 and over
Storage Solutions
Keep your provision organised and accessible with the Picnic Role Play 3-7yrs Storage solution designed to perfectly house this collection and support easy self-selection in busy early years environments.
Safety Information
The deck chairs are manufactured with child safety in mind, made from high-quality wood with screw fixings to safely secure them and prevent them from collapsing. Requires assembly by an adult before use
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.
