It has everything your kids need to pretend they're in a real kitchen, from an oven with a door and a removal splash tub to mixing bowls and blackboard space. The instructions weren’t very good at that point and were incorrect so I had to attach the way I thought it should be.

This mud kitchen is on the expensive side, but as it’s so big and durable we thought it was ideal for big families or even childcare settings.Not only do we have stand alone childrens mud kitchens, but we also have accessories that can be attached to your TP playhouses, or even the side of your house.

This mud kitchen from Studio has a working tap with a pump action - the water is contained underneath the top layer tap and is reused once the water goes down the sink hole and into the container underneath, ready to be pumped back out. And yes, that's taps plural – the brass one that can be attached to your garden hose for running water on demand, and the little one attached to the removable open-top water butt. A mud kitchen is an area, either purpose built or fashioned out of natural / recycled materials, where children are able to take on a role, use their imaginations and engage in meaningful, sensory play - either alone or alongside others.The idea is to use primarily mud or sand to play with but kids can also use anything they can find outside such as leaves, flowers, twigs, pebbles and more. The simple pump system helps reduce water waste – children can pump water up from a trough under the sink, and when they drain the water (there is an easy-to-use plug) it filters back into the trough. I have talked before about this separation of indoor and outdoor play, and the negative consequences that this can have in my post about the importance of learning through play outside which can be found here. It comes with a bamboo wind chime, a generous set of pans and utensils, paintbrush holders, 7 paintbrushes and a fork, rake and trowel. The key ingredient is of course mud, but can also include other foraged and found natural resources such as sticks, gravel, stones, herbs, flowers, plants and weeds.