Community Playthings

Join us in observing how children discover, develop and learn through play. We make solid wood furniture and play equipment for nurseries and primary schools.

[Community Playthings @community_play]

Reimagining your baby room for September? 🍼👶
Our free guide, The Baby Room, created with Dr Mona Sakr, is packed with practical ideas to support under 2s.
👉 Get your copy today: https://t.co/HTiY2DYEWr
#EarlyYears #EYFS #BabyRoom

[Community Playthings @community_play]

👑 We’re honoured to have won the King’s Award for Enterprise in Sustainable Development 2025! Thanks to you - our customers - for choosing a better future for children and the planet🌍.
#KingsAward #EarlyYears #EcoEducation #CommunityPlaythings

[Community Playthings @community_play]

Looking forward to NMT Awards next month. Who will it be this time?
@NMTAwards @NMT #NurseryManagers

[Upstart Scotland @UpstartScot]

Excellent blog on literacy learning by @DrSue22 for @community_play. Ten things every EY practitioner can do to encourage children's love of reading & writing.
@KateJohnston3 @CreativeSTAR @DawnEwan5
https://t.co/SQMFNnO7sh

[Community Playthings @community_play]

Saturday 22 June is an event not to miss - especially if you live around Manchester. Our friends Alexandra and Mr MC linking up for an Early Years conference - not many places left though! Here's the place to register: https://t.co/xtjqLXjTJX

[Community Playthings @community_play]

“Give children a chance to love the earth before we ask them to save it” - David Sobel. Growing beans in a bag is an easy project that allows children to feel the soil, plant a bean, and watch it grow. Instructions here: https://t.co/NvvLzYbxEU

[Community Playthings @community_play]

#JustHygge The New Nursery sofa brings a cosy touch of home. Perfect for settling in period. Coming soon; jump on the waitlist: https://t.co/PgxWF8I9eI

[Community Playthings @community_play]

How can primary schools create emotionally and socially safe environments for the rising number of children with SEND? Nursery World picks up the conversation: https://t.co/rSDYEWamSw aperion_training @mattbawler @KentishTownCE @NadarajahMiriam

[Froebel: Falkirk Network @FalkirkFroebel]

Wonderful to see 3x different sizes of @community_play blocks: Hollow,Unit and Mini to support learning & progression through block play @bankier_nursery 💗⬇️

[Chadsgrove School @Chadsgrove]

Some of our nursery children are having lots of fun playing and learning on the new Activity Tray Table.  Thank you to @communityplayuk

[Community Playthings @community_play]

New for us, but we're excited to be part of what promises to be a great event #MATExcellenceAwards. Best of luck to all the other shortlisters out there!!

[Community Playthings @community_play]

Love play-based learning? Watch this short video about the Activity tray-table. #OpenEndedPlay #EY #Education #EarlyYearsEd #EYIdeas #EarlyYears #ChildrensDevelopment #EYFS #SEND #inclusion

[Community Playthings @community_play]

Can't wait to see you at the Nursery world show next Friday! Stand number C16 and D16 on February 2&3 at the Business Design Centre, London. #NWShow #furnitureexhibition #sustainablymade #sustainablefurniture #Nurseryworld

[Community Playthings @community_play]

Is the Dough Station part of your continuous provision? Watch this video to find your creative starting point for endless possibilities. Address every aspect of the EYFS #childdevelopment #EYFS #EY #OpenEnded #EarlyYears #NurseryIdeas #EYPlay

[Community Playthings @community_play]

We've got Snowplough names to rival the Scottish gritters! These lads named their machines. "Snow-baby" and "Frosted-Jake" hit the charts 😀 #scottishtiktok #scottish #scotland #ice #snow #weather #blizzard #cold #gritters #sensoryplay #sensory #SEND #learnthroughplay #creative

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If dinosaurs walked the earth! These kids had so much fun drawing life-sized dinosaurs with chalk....it gave them an impression of the size of these creatures! 😀 #respect #creative #creativekids #getoutdoors #outdoorlearning #outdoor #learnthroughplay #play #EY #EYFS #dinosaurs

[Community Playthings @community_play]

Anyone who's visited the workshop will know we love our block tower competitions. Sometimes we take our own medicine. These chaps (who mostly make the blocks) finally get a chance to build with them 😀. #blockplay #blockcompetition #competition #familyfun #earlyeducation #math

[Community Playthings @community_play]

Greetings and warm wishes for the festive season, and congratulations to the participants of our block-building Christmas competition - here are the winners! #CPTblockcompetition

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The Activity Tray-table isn't publicly available yet, but it's coming in January. A few lucky local schools have had the chance to come try it out in our demo room. These boys built a city out of popsicle sticks...some really impressive engineering! #tufftray #EY #tuffspot

[Community Playthings @community_play]

The home corner as an island kitchen - simple to put together by combining a stove, sink, and cabinet plus a half-circle table. If you have those units already, pulling them out from the wall can increase interactions. #homecorner #homeawayfromhome #play #playkitchen #home