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Outdoor Learning and Play Resources

Extend your classroom outside to regularly connect children with their natural environment. From sensory learning to mud dramatic play, outdoor play resources help children to expand their imagination.

Outdoor Furnishings

Outdoor classroom furnishings and resources that reflect the standards of your indoor classroom. Invite children to discovery open-ended play with flexible and versatile natural material.
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Trikes and Scooters

For independent gross motor coordination development our sturdy trikes and scooters are great for playground, or gym.
For transportation and community exploration our strollers and turtle buses makes a any trip safe easy economical and environmentally friendly.

Strollers and Kinder Vans

Strollers and Kinder Vans offer indispensable solutions for safe and efficient transportation. Designed to navigate various places while prioritizing comfort and security, these vehicles are essential companions for outdoor activities.

Sand and Water

Sensory, tactile, elemental, a place to create a natural world – children love sand and water areas. Plan and equip your sand and water learning area with a solidly constructed versatile table and a variety of well-made tools, but don’t stop there.
Experiment mixing natural elements with human made such as paper, wood, metal and tools.

Math Outdoor

Invite children to dive into dynamic opportunities for hands-on exploration and mathematical discovery in natural environments.
Outdoor Math resources not only foster a deeper understanding of mathematical concepts but also encourage a love for learning in the great outdoors.

Outlast 

In Canada's challenging climate, durability is paramount for outdoor classrooms.
Outlast's weatherproof wood furniture ensures longevity, withstanding extremes of weather and the energy of children.

Winther

Featuring spokeless wheels for safety, steel ball bearings for smooth pedaling, and impact-proof powder coating for longevity. Designed to accommodate various motor skills levels, Winther riders foster development through play and are easy to assemble.

Tuya

Tuya is beautifully crafted from cedar for Canadian childcare & early years outdoor learning. Naturally weather resistant to sun, ice, rain, and snow. Tuya outdoor classroom furnishings are versatile, sturdy and at just the right height.

Cedar

Made of untreated cedar, harvested in Canada, the wood is naturally weather resistant to sun, freezing, rain & snow. Surprisingly lighter than you expect, you may choose to use your cedar furnishings indoors as well as outside.

Nature to Play

Discover Nature to Play's outdoor furnishings, built to last with Thermory® wood and backed by a 5-year warranty.
Designed for durability with UV-resistant materials, they age beautifully while enduring rough play and the elements.

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Outdoor Classroom Planning Guide

Outdoor Webinars and Web Workshops

Latest Web Workshop: More than a Playground – Planning and Creating Outdoor Learning Spaces

Outdoor areas can mean so much more for early childhood educators than a place for children to burn off excess energy. But where to begin in transforming an outdoor play area into an outdoor classroom?

Join Iain and Bogdan as we look at planning your outdoor learning area.

• Organizing your space into learning areas
• Rot Rules –embracing natural processes in your space
• Balancing nature in your furnishings while protecting your investment
• Incorporating water
• Making room for trikes and scooters

Plus sample plans, care guides and other materials to help you reimagine your outdoor area.

Whether your centre is adjacent to a woodlot, or surrounded by tarmac, we’ll share the LKG furnishings play resources and strategies that can help make discovery learning outdoors possible.

Duration: 45 mins

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New in Outdoor, 2024

Taking learning outdoors is so important for a childcare centre or early years classsroom: health, socialization and the rich stimulus of fresh air. In 2024 we’re seeing the trend for open-ended, versatile furnishings for a flexible outdoor learning environment, grow. Join us to take a closer look at the latest in innovative offerings that can transform your outdoor play area:

• Art tables, easels and storage from Outlast for an inspiring outdoor studio.
• Canadian made water, sand and mud centres made from cedar by Tuya.
• Cedar Playhouse, picnic tables and puppet theatre – transforms and creates a focal point for an outdoor play area.
• New durable, resources for mud and sand, including sustainably made trucks and pails from Denmark.

And More...!!

Duration: 45 mins

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Getting Outdoor Learning Winter Ready

Outdoor learning doesn’t stop when the snow falls. Many Canadian jurisdictions mandate outdoor learning for kindergarten, and pre-school year-round. And fantastic natural learning opportunities abound -- freeze, melt, snow, ice etc.

In 25 minutes, we’ll share some practical tips and strategies for caring for and maximizing the life of your outdoor classroom equipment. Including:

• Inspecting, lubricating and simple fixes for trikes, scooters, turtle buses and strollers.
• How to care for different outdoor wood furnishing: acetylated, cedar, eucalyptus and Thermory wood
• Safe cleaning and refinishing tips

And More...!!

Duration: 25 mins

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Inside out: Bringing the indoor classroom outdoors

Our outdoor environments are all so often underutilized and looked upon as a space to let children burn off their energy and solely engage in their free play.

The outdoors affords children with opportunities to explore and learn about the world around them and can be viewed as a classroom without walls.

In this session, we will discover and discuss the possibilities when recreating our indoor learning environment in the outdoors, regardless of the weather.

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Sorting through equipment for outdoor learning

Where: Virtual
Duration: 50 mins

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Across Canada, early years educators are embracing the challenge of taking their classrooms outdoors. Iain (LKG Sales Manager) and Bogdan (Director of Marketing) will demonstrate a variety of furnishings for teaching outdoors that harness a child’s natural need to play and explore.

Topics discussed:

• Explore the world of Outlast by Community Playthings. See what sets these products apart and how they are built to last a lifetime, in all weather conditions.

• Compare various wood options for outdoors, including Outlast’s acytelated wood, Canadian red cedar and other options.
• See examples and ideas for implementing these products in a variety of environments to help take indoor curricular strands - creative arts, math, language arts, science etc. - outside
• Learn sanitization and care tips

Informed by pedagogy and real world examples, this presentation will give teachers, ECE’s, centre managers, principals and administrators practical information for sorting through a variety of outdoor learning products.

Why it’s Kool! Outlast

Wood outdoor learning equipment and furniture that inspires independent, open-ended play. From a tables and benches, to blocks and mud kitchens, the Outlast line of weatherproof wood furniture is warrantied not to warp shrink or rot even in Canadian conditions for life. Smooth surfaces for writing and drawing, water tables and mud kitchens for investigation and experimentation, a block and plank system that fosters engineering, gross motor development and risky play. We’ll show you how Outlast – endlessly, flexible, and portable – can adapt to your changing needs without the cost of a built-in play-structure. Plus, what happens when you stick an Outlast table in a frozen pond for 6 months.

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Outdoor Learning Blogs

From ideas for outdoor activities to tips for outdoor furniture care, here are articles to find inspiration for outdoor classrooms and play areas.
Encourage children to enjoy sensory and dramatic learning experience.

5 Outdoor Music Activities for Early Years Classrooms

Beyond Climbers and Slides: Embracing Loose Parts Play with Outlast Outdoor Resources

3 Quick Transformations of Tarmac into an Outdoor classroom

Outdoor Classroom Plans

Opening a new classroom or enhancing an existing care space can get a little overwhelming.

Let LKG help you realize an inspiring learning environment with unmatched expertise and service.

We’ll devise and revise custom quotes with scaled pricing and discount structures appropriate for your project.
We can even create a 3D room plan with a detailed list of Community Playthings furniture for each learning area. Fill out the form below and/or contact your account representative to see if you qualify for a free plan.

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