Outdoor Games

Kids outdoor toys here are for children who would rather be in the garden or the park: skipping ropes, a diabolo, mini golf, a kite to paint, magnifying glasses and gardening tools in a child's size, with something from age 2 right up to 7 and beyond.

Children's garden toys for digging, watering and looking closer

Tools that fit a child's grip make the job their own: the gardening bag set with six tools and a watering can, the little gardener set with waterproof apron and gloves, or a single wooden spade for the vegetable patch. The outdoor explorer kit adds a fishing net, a magnifier jar and tongs, so a beetle can be studied, then put back where it was found. Back indoors, the snail and songbird flower presses turn the day's finds into flat keepsakes.

Outdoor games for kids who need to move

For the ones who run everywhere, the wooden-handled skipping rope (ages 4+), the classic diabolo with handsticks and the mini golf putting set turn a patch of lawn into a playground. The 3-in-1 obstacle course with agility hurdles (5+) can be set up differently each time, and the slackline (7+) is a real balance challenge for older children: tie it low between two sturdy trees and stay close for the first tries.

Kids outdoor toys, age by age

• From 2: the giant XXL magnifying glass, easy to hold and to look through.
• From 3: gardening kits, the explorer kit and the paint-your-own diamond kite.
• From 4 and 5: skipping rope, mini golf and the obstacle course.
• From 6 and 7: the pocket compass for first walks with a map, then the slackline.

Keep one small bag by the back door with the magnifier and the net, and a ten-minute look around the garden soon becomes a habit. Let your child choose what to study and name it together afterwards, as the Montessori method suggests; on wet days, Montessori games with sounds and textures keep that curiosity busy indoors.