Sensory Spaces
Pop-up sensory tents with themed jackets, colour-changing light and immersive sound. Built for calm, focused play at home, in classrooms and in SEN settings.
Explore Sensory Spaces →Hand-picked, safety-tested, screen-free
Why Play Tents exists — and why it matters
I'm the daydreamer behind Play Tents — an only child who spent years drawing, building sofa-cushion dens and staring out of windows. When I went looking for tents that were genuinely made for that kind of play, almost nothing measured up.
So I built a shop around the few that did — proper fabric, real safety paperwork, and a person on the other end of every order.
“Today I'm an adult, and I still get my best hours under a garden umbrella.”
Genuine stock, properly papered
Real Podsplay and moi mili products, with the safety documentation to back them up. No grey-market copies, no unbranded lookalikes.
14-day returns
If it isn't right for your family, send it back — no drama.
Shipped straight from the makers
Your order is packed and sent by the workshop that made it, on a tracked service. No warehouse detour in the middle.
How this actually works
I don't keep a stockroom. When you order, it goes to the workshop that makes it — Podsplay for the sensory tents, moi mili for the cotton teepees and canopies — and they send it to you directly, tracked.
That's a deliberate choice, not a shortcut. It means I can carry a proper range without charging you for storage nobody needs, and the people who made the thing are the ones handling it right up to your door.
What I do is decide what earns a place on the site, check the paperwork behind it, and answer every email myself.
Two little worlds
One shared idea: spaces that help children play, read, rest and imagine without a screen in sight.
Cosy Corner
Cotton teepees, canopies and fairy lights that turn a bedroom corner into a proper reading nook. The kind of den I'd have refused to come out of as a kid.
Explore Cosy Corner →What "play-safe" actually means here
Every product on the site
- Compliant with EN71 toy safety standards (parts 1, 2 & 3)
- UKCA and CE marked under the Toys (Safety) Regulations 2011
- Machine-washable covers and jackets
- Test certificates available on request — just ask
Sensory Spaces (pop-up tents)
- Threaded fibreglass tension frames — no exposed poles, loose clips or sharp parts
Cosy Corner (teepees, canopies, garlands)
- Flame-retardant fabrics tested to BS 5852
- 100% cotton, cut and finished by hand, with azo-free non-toxic prints
- FSC-certified pine or beech poles, sanded smooth
Start here
The Beige Classic Teepee
The easiest way into a Cosy Corner — soft cotton, pale wood poles, and a doorway that begs for a book and a blanket.
Questions? Email hello@playtents.co.uk — I reply personally, usually within the day.