Tuff Tray Activity Ideas
Add loose parts like vibrant gems, translucent shapes, pom poms, and faux flowers to your tray. Invite children to design their own flower patterns. Encourage them to name colours, count petals, and explore shapes—perfect for spring creativity!
Add cotton balls to the tray for snow, then place wooden peg people, textured blocks, and trees around the space. Drape a silk scarf overhead to create the Northern Lights. Invite children to explore, build, and tell stories in their magical Arctic world.
Fill the numbered bowls with shredded paper or grass to create nests. Place them around the tray and add worms (pipe cleaners). Provide tweezers and invite children to feed each bird with the correct number of worms.
Set out a roll of paper and draw a garden of colourful flowers—tall, short, curly, straight! Then add rulers, linking cubes, measuring tapes and chains. Invite children to measure each flower and compare their findings.
Mini Tuff Tray Ideas
Deep Tuff Tray Ideas
Fill the tray with sand and hide sea shells underneath. Add number pebbles and invite children to dig, count, and match the correct number of shells to each pebble. Encourage sorting, pattern-making, and exploring different ways to represent numbers!
Pour in coloured rice and pom-poms to create “snow”. Hide CVC word cards or magnetic letters underneath. Add toy plows and invite children to scoop and uncover letters, then build simple CVC words.
Fill the bin with black beans for “soil” and add play flowers, gardening tools, and a garden word mat. Invite children to dig, scoop, plant, and harvest while exploring garden vocabulary through meaningful, hands-on play.
Place a felt rainbow wheel in the tray and scatter colourful gems or rainbow pebbles around it. Invite children to sort the gems by colour onto the matching sections. Pair with a colour book to spark discussion and build colour recognition and fine motor skills!
The three-panelled design allows children to create endless patterns and designs through the mirror's reflection and explore symmetry, fostering an understanding of basic scientific concepts.
This versatile small world set includes 20 beautifully crafted wooden pieces, designed to inspire endless creativity and exploration, fostering children's imaginative play and storytelling skills.
This super shiny, magnetic tray invites children to explore and experiment in a multitude of ways. Its reflective surface captivates young minds and opens up a world of possibilities for imaginative and sensory play.
These large, wooden peg people are designed to inspire creativity and storytelling. Children can take these pegs on adventures, transforming them into any character they desire without the risk of losing them.
This felt mat is designed for play-based learning, loose parts play, and colour sorting activities in early childhood settings.
Specifically designed to fit any full-size tuff tray, this cover is a must-have accessory for both indoor and outdoor play-based learning environments.
This stand for the deep tuff tray is designed at just the right height for small children to engage in various play activities comfortably.
Our white Tuff Spot Paper Pad is a great addition to your tuff spot range of accessories. 20 sheets of double-sided white paper per pad.
