Mud campaign
We created our Mud Campaign in 2011 and have been promoting play with natural resources and, in particular, mud, ever since.
Ethos & approach
Everything we do at Muddy Faces has been developed to support you and your children to be outdoors, to create rich and positive experiences, to play, learn and blossom. Being outside and connecting to nature is so important for our physical and mental well-being.
About us
About usContact us
Purchase Orders
Terms & Conditions
Age restricted items
Company & VAT information
Orders & cancellations
Out of stock
Payments & Purchase Orders
Privacy policy & GDPR
Competition terms & conditions
Photograph permissions
Outdoor Hub Disclaimer
Delivery
Returns or exchanges
Reducing environmental impact
Ethos & approach
UK-grown wood
Liz Edwards
10 years old & counting...
Care notes
Natural wood care note
Our passion
At Muddy Faces we truly believe in what we are building and providing. We are constantly learning and evolving. We know that by being outdoors, a profound love and understanding of the natural world can occur which over time will help nurture a more sustainable and contented way of living. We believe everybody benefits from more time outdoors and we want to help you to access the outdoor environment effectively and sustainably.
Family-friendly workplace
By creating a family-friendly place to work, we have created a flexible, supportive business at Muddy Faces. The majority of our staff, including founder Liz, work part-time with hours to suit their families. The working environment is supportive and everyone is passionate about children, the quality of the products and maintaining an extremely high level of customer service.
Campaigns
Since 2011 we have been working on a number of campaigns that have affected the day-to-day experiences of most early years children in the UK and many abroad. Each year we use profit from the shop to fund these campaigns.
The Outdoor Hub
The Outdoor Hub has been developed to provide useful and honest information, activities and events all focused on the outdoors. Explore the comprehensive activities section to find seasonal and item specific activities.
Outdoor Hub
The Outdoor Hub is a massive FREE resource filled with activities, information and events to support you to get outdoors. Connecting to the elements, nature and each other has incredible positive health and wellbeing benefits.
Activities
We have hundreds of outdoor activities to explore, from simple, fun, less-than-an-hour arts and crafts, to more complex projects that'll keep you going for a few hours or even weeks; plus a range of themed inspiration pages, technical guides and video demonstrations.
There is something for everyone in our activities section.
Product development
The quality of the products we add to our range is paramount to us. We have very few returns due to product issues.
We are always interested in new and useful pieces of kit or any ideas that you may have. Please drop us a line and let us know if there is anything that you think we should be carrying in our product range.
We also manufacture a number of our own products such as palm drills and dragons sneezes and we specialise in UK-grown wood.
Guide to palm drills
Perfect as an introduction to tool use and for children to practise the skill of drilling.
Read More about Guide to palm drills
Dragons Sneeze
The Dragons Sneeze is one of our most popular products, a fire steel and striker we designed and created especially for Forest School groups and practitioners - easy to make the perfect spark.
Read More about Dragons Sneeze
UK-grown wood
We source our UK grown wood from sustainably-managed woodlands. This helps with their management and to support their future viability.
Read More about UK-grown wood
Catalogue
Each year we produce a catalogue which provides much more than a list of items to purchase. We also include a list of outdoor organisations and feature interesting activity ideas.
Many practitioners love receiving their new catalogue every year - it's a rather desirable object filled with loads of inspiring stuff!
Click below to download a pdf of the catalogue (large file).
MF2020 Catalogue download