Best Garden Games and Activities for Kids
Published on 6th August 2024 by Suzanna Mazzone
Are you looking to making the most out of the British weather this Summer? Here at Club Hub we have put together a list of the best garden games and activities for kids to help you keep your kids entertained. There is a huge range of kids outdoor toys from fantastic businesses for those upcoming hot days in the U.K
Outdoor learning with Learning Resources®
Outdoor play is essential for children’s physical and emotional wellbeing. It also provides children with limitless opportunities to learn about the world around them. One of the most accessible ways to encourage children to play outdoors is to find fun activities for them to enjoy in your garden or outdoors space.
From nature toys for exploration to outdoor imaginative play, educational toys company Learning Resources® offers children of all ages plenty of ways to learn through play in the garden.
Shop our range of educational water toys that help children build fine motor skills through fun sensory water play.
Nature toys such as our classic GeoSafari® Jr. Kidnoculars which are focus-free binoculars for children ages 3 and up are ideal for exploring nature in your garden. Our GeoSafari Jr. range offers fun outdoor exploration toys that are kid-tough and made for learning adventures!
Your garden is also the ideal backdrop for imaginative play. A leafy shrub and some stones can become a mini Jurassic landscape, and a garden bench along with some empty boxes can become a farm shop. Check out our outdoor imaginative toys for some inspiration.
Families can also take the learning outdoors by heading the Learning Resources blog where we offer fun ideas to encourage outdoor play including ideas for seasonal tuff trays. And finally, you’ll find an entire section of free printables dedicated to outdoor play on our Free Activity Sheets page.
Blue Rabbit Climbing Frames – Garden Games with Active Garden
As the UK’s Blue Rabbit Climbing Frame experts, we are here to help you design the perfect play structure for your garden. Our Blue Rabbit wooden climbing frames offer excellent value for money, featuring robust wooden play frames with high-quality, thick, Scandinavian Redwood timber, and a range of fun accessories. These popular designs are built to last and provide years of enjoyment for children, adding both physical and imaginative play, encouraging outdoor activity for your little ones!
The timber is pressure-treated to protect against rot and infestation with a 10 year guarantee. The timber is pre-cut to length, significantly reducing your building time and ensuring a precise fit. These sturdy play structures are suitable for children up to 12 years old and are designed to withstand years of active play.
The Blue Rabbit range offers a variety of accessories and modules, allowing you to customise your climbing frame to suit your needs. From swings and slides to climbing walls, nets, ramps and bridges, you can create a fun and engaging play area that will look fantastic in your garden.
If you can’t find what you’re looking for or need help customising your climbing frame, please get in touch! Our range is versatile, and modules and accessories can be added, exchanged, or combined to create the perfect play area for your children.
For those who prefer a hassle-free setup, you can ensure your climbing frame is assembled safely and correctly with our professional installation & assembly service by experienced climbing frame installers in England and Wales.
Ready to create the perfect play area? Contact us today at 01568 782241 or [email protected]. Our team of experts is here to help you design and build a Blue Rabbit climbing frame that will provide endless fun and adventure for your children.
Dunster House Climbing Frame – Best Garden Games and Activities for Kids
Keep the kids active and safe with a Dunster House climbing frame! Let their imaginations run wild by bringing the adventure to the back garden. The fully pressure treated climbing frames come with many features to keep the kids entertained for hours. Let them slide, swing, climb and hang all day long.
Dunster House offers a wide selection of climbing frames for all children’s activities to suit children aged 3 – 14 years old.
Introduce a climbing frame to your garden without any concerns about being unsafe, as all Dunster House climbing frames comply with the EN71 European Safety Standards. The fixings and fixtures all come included as standard, with pre-drilled bolt holes and pre-assembled platforms to make life easy.
All of Dunster House’s climbing frames are heavy-duty and can be kept in the garden all year round.
It can be challenging to get children out, as they are so wrapped up in their latest gadgets. With a Dunster House climbing frame, you will get them out in the fresh air!
Add an extra element of fun with add-ons such as a telescope, steering wheel or climbing stones, which are included as standard. Switch in the swing seats to suit your family with a baby seat, knotted rope, or a duo seat, so all ages can participate. Make your climbing frame unique and extra special by adding a splash of colour!
Our climbing frames are fully pressure treated and guaranteed for 10 years against rot and insect infestation, so whilst you don’t need to paint your climbing frame, you may want to add some personal touches.
Get ready for the adventures of a lifetime and give the little ones something to look forward to!
For more inspiration and to really fuel your child’s imagination why not view Dunster House’s animation – Fuel Their Imagination – Climbing Frames – YouTube
Buy Now: www.dunsterhouse.co.uk/climbing-frames
A Mud Kitchen – Best Garden Games and Activities for Kids
A mud kitchen is a fantastic way to help your kids explore nature and get creative in the garden.
It’s also known to help with cognitive development and fine motor skills.
Whether it’s upcycling a piece of old furniture, or buying a mud kitchen, your kids will love the open-ended play opportunities this fantastic garden toy brings!
www.diygarden.co.uk
The Den Kit Co – Best Garden Games and Activities for Kids
Encourage immersive, exciting, imaginative outdoor play with our authentic Original Den Kit – a handy haversack bag containing a robust and durable tool kit for den-building, enabling children to create their very own outdoor hideaway.
Offering every child an outdoor experience whatever the weather, our Original Den Kit was lovingly designed to capture creative imaginations. This den building kit encourages resourcefulness and innovation, provides escape and sanctuary, and most of all supplies hours of simple fun. For every child, for everywhere and for years to come – your passport to the outdoors.
Buy Now: www.thedenkitco.com/
Outdoor Children’s Boppi Teepee Play Tent
bopsteris a family run online toy company, and their indoor and outdoor children’s boppi teepee play tent offers a fun space for little ones to have their own magical outdoor adventure in the garden, or set up as an indoor hideaway on rainy days. With a simple to assemble slot-pole wooden frame and hardwearing canvas cover with entrance tie-backs and storage ties, it’s a doddle for parents to put together.
A base size of 120cm x 120cm and a height of 160cm, makes them ideal for little ones to enjoy. The tents can be dismantled and stored or transported easily in the canvas drawstring carry bag provided.
Teepee tents are quick and easy to dismantle and can be stored in a discreet and compact size when not in use.
Buy Now: www.bopster.eu/kids/indoor/play-tents-tunnel-playsets
Illustrated Educational Children’s Book & Seed Bomb Set
Gift set contains:
- 1 x Hardback Bee Book
- 2 x Pollinator Beebom Seedboms
There’s a Tiger in The Garden!
Illustrated Children’s Board Book & Tigerbom Seedboms
When Grandma says she’s seen a tiger in the garden, Nora doesn’t believe her. She’s too old to play grandma’s silly games! Everyone knows that tigers live in jungles, not gardens. So even when Nora sees dragonflies as big as birds, and plants that try and eat her toy giraffe, and a polar bear that likes fishing, she knows there’s absolutely, DEFINITELY no way there could be a tiger in the garden . . . Could there?
The Seedboms:
Pull the pin and throw or drop Seedboms into areas that are in need of brightening up. Seedboms like bare soil, natural light and to be kept damp whilst growing. Full instructions are included on inside of each Seedbom sleeve.
Seedboms will biodegrade into the environment, leaving only plants behind.
For more details head on over to ‘How they work‘.
For best results use Seedbom within 1 year of purchase.
Buy Now – There’s a Tiger in The Garden Book and Seedbom Set
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Wickey – Climbing Frames, Swings and Sandpits
Wickey are the leading manufacturer of outdoor play equipment for children’s activities with all their products being made from solid wood. In 16 European countries, they inspire families with their lovingly developed play equipment for the garden. With constantly changing campaigns and new products, every knight and princess will find what they are looking for.
We have a huge range of sandpits, all with a roof protect so constructions are shielded from the sun and rain. All models can be expanded with practical sandpit accessories so you can create your own adventure.
Whether swing & slide set, swing set, sandpit or more – with our imaginative play equipment, every garden becomes a very special adventure paradise in the twinkling of an eye.
Take a look at more of their amazing products here
Refillable Sunscreen Applicators – The Solar Buddies
With all this playing out in the garden and children’s activities its important that the kids are protected from the sun!
The Solar Buddies are the world’s first child-friendly, refillable sunscreen applicators.
Fill with sunscreen of choice. Great for kids in school, those family days out and holidays. With its sponge and roller ball combination, it makes for an easy application with less waste and less mess. Say goodbye to those messy hands. Solar Buddies is a sun safety teaching tool, although, we do advise that there is adult supervision to ensure full and even coverage. The must have product for sun safety!
