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$52.00
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Funnel Pack

$25.00
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Hand Mixer

$25.00

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Inspire children to build, balance, and construct.

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Metal Pail - Medium

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Mini Mop

$6.00
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Outdoor Balance

$159.00
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Outdoor Ramps

From $310.00

Parents and educators are always looking for ways to balance screen time with fun activities for children, and these outdoor toys are designed just for that. The role that outdoor activities play in a child’s overall development is undeniable, providing benefits that range from physical to social. Outdoor learning materials help create a love for active play and nature among young minds. It facilitates the development of critical skills in a fun, meaningful way, making outdoor playtime a powerful learning lesson and a memorable part of childhood.

Why Are Outdoor Toys Important?

Outdoor learning tools include materials children use to engage in activities like climbing, running, balancing, and building. These play a crucial role in building a child’s strength and improving their hand-eye coordination and overall fitness. With this intentional movement, children gain body awareness and develop motor skills that will be useful later in adulthood. The benefits extend to their social lives as well. Kids who work with these outdoor toys naturally adopt teamwork, negotiation, and communication skills. 

The open-ended nature of outdoor materials is perfect for nurturing creativity in children, helping them experiment and grasp key STEM concepts that will help them in academics. 

Bringing Outdoor Toys to the Classroom 

These outdoor learning tools are perfect for teachers who want to turn their ordinary playground into a space where children are curious to learn, explore, and experiment with hands-on play. If you have students with diverse needs, like ADHD or other sensory challenges, these outdoor learning tools can help them regulate their emotions and focus on learning. These materials support a hands-on and active learning approach, where children are presented with opportunities to develop their problem-solving skills while having fun. 

Outdoor Toys You’ll Love

With tools like the Hand Mixer at their disposal, outdoor learning will become an exciting experience they look forward to. This mixer allows kids to churn sand, stir water, or mix different ingredients to extraordinary things while improving their fine motor skills. With this outdoor learning material, children can explore different textures and materials more hands-only, watching the effects of their actions. 

Outdoor play and learning are complete with our ECO Sand Bucket Set, which takes playtime up a notch. The sets come in green or yellow, and each has a bucket, sieve, and spade, so children have endless ways to create structures straight out of their imagination. Little learners will use this outdoor learning material to scoop, sift, pour, and create different materials as they work with sand, water, and soil. The product is made in the Netherlands from sustainable plastic, making it a perfect addition for sensory outdoor play in your classroom, field trips to the beach, garden, or playground. 

A Funnel Pack is a great addition to sensory spaces indoors and outdoors, like classrooms and play areas. They come in two different sizes—10", two 8", and two 5" funnels—because each one triggers a different kind of exploration among young and curious minds. Children use these outdoor materials to create a water channel, observe how sand flows, and experiment with other materials to learn essential STEM concepts like gravity and flow rates. 

Finally, we have the Garden Hand Tools set, perfect for little hands who want to plant a seed and watch it grow. Gardening is essential for lesson children to learn early so they understand how different elements work together to support life. The outdoor activity tools are made from sustainable wood and non-toxic materials, allowing children to dig, plant, and explore the gardening world without any hazards. When children plant seeds and do hands-on gardening, they realize the importance of nurturing life, creating an appreciation for the natural world. 

Enhance Learning with Kodo Kids

Outdoor toys for children open up a new world of hands-on learning and exploration, helping them develop an active lifestyle while instilling a natural curiosity for everything around them. These materials inspire physical activity, focus, teamwork, and an appreciation for nature through meaningful learning, which also helps cut down on screen time. 

Discover our entire collection of learning materials at Kodo Kids, filled with ideas to help educators create inspiring indoor and outdoor activities to stimulate children’s curiosity.

Trusted by Educators

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Our products and support are celebrated by educators and children alike.

Jaci I.

Director of Early Childhood Education @ Congregation Beth Elohim

We have set up a sensory room with many of Kodo’s materials–light table, magnet wall, wind tunnel–and it’s a favorite space for all of our classes to visit. Parents and professional visitors are quite impressed with the uniqueness and open-ended aspect of the materials.


I met with the founder many years ago at a NAEYC conference when he was just starting and had just a few products and was immediately impressed with his understanding of how young children learn. It has been a pleasure to watch the company grow while maintaining the integrity of your knowledge of how young children learn best through active participation and exploration of their environment.

Cathy H.

Teacher @ Tennie Russell Primary School

Our little learners are finding new ways to explore through light, movement, engineering and more. Adding the wind tunnel to our lab has been a game changer in terms of excitement level and inquiry. Students eagerly explore how things blow when the tunnel is adjusted to varying angles, and they discover the differences in materials and how well they move through and out of the tunnel. We expanded our engineering/building area by increasing choices with the Swiss Ramp Stands and the Discovery Ramps set. In doing that, we sparked a higher interest in force and motion, including problem-solving on how to stop said motion. These are just some of the items we purchased from Kodo Kids with our grant, and we look forward to seeing our young minds at work as we continue to expand our STEAM lab.

Anna D.

Nature Preschool Teacher @ Oak Ridge Elementary

The Outdoor Ramps have been a fantastic addition to support outdoor learning at Oak Ridge Elementary. Students in preschool through 1st grade have been able to use the ramps in multiple environments, including indoors, on our playground, in our forest outdoor classroom, and in our prairie outdoor classroom. In addition, all students, regardless of their abilities, have been able to participate in ramp play. Students who are wheelchair-bound are able to participate in ramp play with their classmates due to having longer length sections that reach the child’s chair height.

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