Leave Me Outdoors Children’s Easel

Give outdoor drawing and painting two different surfaces with the Leave Me Outdoors Children’s Easel. A chalkboard on one side and a clear Perspex panel on the other allow children to explore contrasting ways of making marks. The freestanding design creates an art station for gardens, nursery outdoor areas and school learning spaces, bringing creative materials into the places children are already exploring.

On the chalkboard, children can make lines, shapes and pictures with suitable chalk. The darker background makes pale marks easy to notice, and wiping the surface creates room for another idea. The clear panel offers a different experience: children can look through it as they draw or paint with compatible removable materials, watching how their marks sit against the view beyond.

The Leave Me Outdoors Children’s Easel encourages active use of creative tools. Children hold a brush, chalk or suitable whiteboard marker, guide it across the appropriate surface and adjust the movement as they see the result. Large sweeping marks involve the arm and shoulder, while smaller details ask for more controlled hand movements. These are practical opportunities to explore pressure, direction and hand-eye coordination through an activity with an immediate visible result.

For families, the easel can make a regular outdoor art session easier to set up. In nurseries and EYFS settings, it can become part of continuous provision, with an adult selecting materials suited to the children and the two surfaces. A classroom group might use it for drawing observed plants, making signs for pretend play or experimenting with patterns.

The outdoor construction uses Duraply, rounded bull-nosed edges and stainless steel fixings, with an exterior seal around the edges. The easel measures 1050mm high, 605mm wide and 375mm deep, helping buyers plan its position and the working space around it. One easel is supplied, with a chalkboard face and a Perspex face. Brushes, chalk, paint and markers mentioned in the activity ideas are separate resources, so you can choose the materials that suit your setting.

Two Surfaces, Different Creative Possibilities

Use chalk on the chalkboard face and compatible water-based children's paint or whiteboard markers on the Perspex face, following the supplied guidance. The surfaces give children an opportunity to compare how marks look against a dark background and a transparent one. Clean between activities so the next idea has room to develop.

Outdoor Art and Activity Ideas

• Nature observation: look closely at a leaf or flower and draw the shapes you notice.
• Pattern paths: alternate straight and curved lines, then ask a partner to continue the sequence.
• Pretend-play signs: make a menu, shop sign or simple map for an outdoor story.
• Drawing through the window: look at a suitable stationary object through the clear panel and explore its outline.
• Mark-making comparison: compare a broad brush stroke with a narrow chalk line.

Language and Learning Through Art

Discussing a picture provides a reason to explain choices and use words for colour, position, size and shape. Children can describe what they intended, notice what changed and decide what to try next. Adults can support this conversation without requiring every drawing to match a model.

Why Choose the Leave Me Outdoors Children’s Easel?

The combination of chalkboard and Perspex gives one outdoor art station two distinct uses. Its freestanding format allows a setting to position mark making alongside nature study or imaginative play, while the reusable faces invite children to return with new ideas.

Perfect For

• Nursery and EYFS outdoor creative provision.
• School gardens and outdoor classrooms.
• Supervised home garden art activities.
• Drawing, pattern making and pretend-play signage.

Product Features

• Chalkboard on one side and Perspex on the other.
• Outdoor Duraply construction.
• Bull-nosed edges with an exterior edge seal.
• Stainless steel fixings.
• Freestanding design.

Specifications

• Product: Leave Me Outdoors Children’s Easel.
• Product code: S1-2330.
• Quantity: ONE easel.
• Dimensions: H1050 × W605 × D375mm.
• Age: 18 months and over, with appropriate supervision and art materials.
• Assembly: supplied flat packed with instructions.
• Guarantee: 5 years against structural failure caused by rot or insect attack, subject to the supplied terms.
• Art materials: not included.

Care and Use

An adult should assemble and position the easel on a stable, level surface with room to work around it. Follow the manufacturer's instructions for compatible paints, markers and cleaning. Test a removable medium on a small area first; avoid permanent or solvent-based markers. Inspect the fixings and surfaces regularly and supervise young children. Store art supplies separately after use.