The ultimate outdoor
stay and playgroup

For children aged 6 months to 5 years olds

Activities on-site

We are the ultimate outdoor role play, our ten themed free play areas are designed to encourage curiosity and imagination. Our sites have heated shelters to enable play all year round, whatever the weather.

Our zones

Gigantic mud kitchen

Our mud kitchen is always fully stocked with fresh foliage and flowers collected fresh each day. Utensils, pots and pans are all real sized but safe for children. Not to mention the potion station, with the ingredients needed to create colourful fizzing concoctions.

The construction zone

With vehicles, tools and life sized foam bricks. The area boasts a brick house to complete, this is the ultimate construction site for all mini builders.

Off roading area

Toy cars, trucks, movable roads, ramps and road signs with multiple terrains for the children to navigate.

Shepherd’s hut

Our little Shepherd’s hut has a terrace with guardrails, ladders, windows and a built-in counter, ideal for role play. This allows children to work together to enact scenarios including adopting another persona within the Shepherd’s hut.

Site vets

Our site Vets has a whole host of animals the children can nurse back to good health with our vets table and grooming tools.

The Farm shop & veggie patch

Organic Farm Shop is fully stocked with realistic fruit and vegetables for all those budding shopkeepers. The shops veggie patch is full of real vegetables with all the garden tools needed to dig up the fresh produce to fill the wagons.

Water and sand play

Water play with water walls and runs with reservoirs, racing chutes and gates so the children can have fun with water flow and direction. Our sites always have large sandpits with creative sand toys and diggers for scooping, building, moulding and sculpting.

Painting and tuff trays

Painting stations and a whole host of theme tuff trays that change each month from dinosaur swamps to Gruffalo caves to pirate waters.

“Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.”

John Muir

Mini Foresters

Embark on a woodland adventure with Mini Foresters, the enchanting forest school experience brought to you by Mini Mudders.

Nestled within the serene Batsford Arboretum, Mini Foresters offers a unique outdoor stay-and-play setting, inspired by the principles of Forest School education.

This Is Our Story

I am Jessie and I have a (very long) background in Marketing and TV production! Once I had my first baby, I wanted to create something that I could be proud of, that fitted in with my new life with Archie and channelled my passion for storytelling. Mini Mudders is my ultimate production!