The Home of Environmentally Friendly Sensory Equipment!

We're delighted to see how important green credentials are becoming in people's choices about what to eat, wear, play and educate with, but for Play to Z, eco friendly and socially responsive resources have always been our focus. All our sensory toys and equipment are picked for their safety assurance, sensory appeal, play value, quality and durability. 

Messy Play & Mud Kitchens

 We think you'll love our new additions to our Messy Play and Mud Kitchen range. We've made things easy for you by selecting some fantastic resources, sure to inspire exploration and play with materials. Choose from the fantastic Messy Play/Mud Kitchen Containers, and 2 enticing Utensils Kits - Essentials and Extras for enticing provocations. If you loved Sue's book on Messy Play you'll probably want to try out gelli play and what better way than our Gelli Play & Cauldron Set? If you think you've got the essentials but your Messy Play provision or Mud Kitchen just feels a bit lack lustre, fear not, head over to the Treasure Trove where you can buy utensils, containers and all manner of objects individually or in bulk.

Wooden & Traditional Toys

We're very proud of our range of colourful and robust wooden sensory toys. Built to last these provide quality sensory-rich opportunities for pretend play and stigma-free fidgeting. Brimming with retro appeal, our wonderful range of vintage toys, featuring eye catching patterns and colours, will give adults opportunities for sharing cherished memories while children discover the simple wonders of these timeless traditional playthings.

Sensory Equipment & Fidget Toys

We offer a select range of carefully sourced sensory equipment and fidget toys. They are robust enough to withstand lots of play, sensory use and fidgeting and built to last to ensure that they can be used and enjoyed time and again rather than contributing to the throw-away culture. These enticing, stigma-free fidgets really work! Made in rubber or silicon these are practical wipe clean resources, especially useful when complying with Covid-19 safety advice.   

Puppets & Storytelling Toys

We think you'll love our selection of fantastic puppets, stories and toys, Great for igniting a love of stories and storytelling, children and adults won’t be able to resist bringing these realistic puppets to life and adding an extra special dimension to stories, pretend play or peek-a-boo.

Together we can work together to make a difference to our precious world.

With an understanding about the environment and our impacts more important than ever, we think you'll like our new resources, coming soon,  focusing on issues like deforestation, ocean plastics, transport, waste and biodiversity. With their appeal for children across the ages and spotlight on key environmental and sustainability issues are sure to become ‘must have’ resources this Christmas and in 2023.

Covid-19 Virus Safety Measures

The interests of our customers, our team and the communities that we support and work with continue to be at the centre of everything we do, and this is particularly important during these challenging times. With this in mind, we wanted to reassure you that we have put in place a number of robust measures designed to make health and safety a top priority, whilst still ensuring that we can best meet children and families sensory, physical and emotional needs. We take our responsibility for safety extremely seriously so are following Government guidelines on Covid-19 to enable schools, pastoral teams, nurseries, social services and families to order essential sensory equipment, toys and play resources during lockdown. Safety has always been at the heart of everything that we do, so you’ll be pleased to hear that after a precautionary deep clean, we’re open for business with gloves and masks donned ready to meet your sensory equipment, learning and play needs.  

Sensory Play Resources & Equipment, Play Therapy and Training 

Sensory engagement is essential to children's development, wellbeing and learning. For over 10 years we've made it our business specialising in providing a stimulating range of sensory resources and equipment for babies, toddlers and primary age children as well as adults with dementia and special educational needs and training for practitioners. Our handmade, ethical and award-winning heuristic play resources, of which Stacking Hoops and Mini Stacking Hoops are stand out products, provide early sensory stimulation and a sensory education, not to mention being unique and ethical, as they are made in the UK by adults with physical and learning disabilities.

Our resources are also suitable for supporting children and adults' wellbeing. We provide equipment for addressing sensory processing and sensory attachment challenges, as well as emotional and behavioural difficulties. Particularly effective is our range of tried and tested carefully selected resources for providing proprioceptive feedback, calming relief or acting as self-regulation and fidget tools.  See our Twitter feed for the latest news, information and ideas, or why not have a look at our Sensory Toys Catalogue here brimming with tried and tested Sensory Toys and equipment, carefully selected or designed by author, Play Therapist and sensory engagement specialist Sue Gascoyne.

Safety is paramount which is why many of our resources are EN71 certified resources. All our handmade and fabric resources are made in the UK and designed and developed by author and award winning trainer Sue Gascoyne, following extensive research and testing. Sustainability and ethical practices have always been at the heart of everything we do. We're proud to work with and support several UK-based centres for Adults with Physical or Learning Difficulties who make many of these resources. You can read about our environmental commitment to the planet here and find out what we have planned to further minimise our global footprint in 2022. If you‘re an advocate of Best of British we think you’ll like what you’ll see! For all the very latest news and product updates please click here or follow our Twitter feed!