Kids of all ages love to play in tents and Wendy houses, but toddlers and younger children in particular seem to enjoy crawling and rolling through play tunnels.

Will the tent be use indoors or outdoors?

If the play tent is to be sued outdoors it will need to be fairly sturdy, and perhaps even have some way of pegging it to the ground if the play area is a bit windy. But on fine, non windy days, any kind of play tent can be taken outside quite happily.

Does your child love everything to do with Disney, Bob the Builder, Thomas the Tank Engine or...(insert Kids TV character here…)

Just as with all kids toys, there are plenty of play tents that come with children’s favourite TV and film characters printed on the side, such as Bob the Builder and Disney Princess. Of course this doesn’t make these play tents any better or worse than the plain tents in our eyes. But for a child, it could well be a dream come true to play a fairy tale princess game inside an actual Disney Princess tent. There may well be nicer looking tents as far as grown ups are concerned, but it’s hard to ignore the appeal of a favourite TV character when choosing a toy for any child these days.

Maybe your child has a particular love for role play games…

All kids love role play. But sometimes a child just loves a particular type of role play game, such as shop keeper, school teacher, doctor, medieval knight, cowboy, mechanic... There are plenty of tents specially designed to develop such role play games, so make sure you take a look to see what’s out there. Your budding little shopkeeper or doctor will be delighted!

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