🌴 Felt Palm Tree Invitation to Play Sets

🌴 Felt Palm Tree Invitation to Play Sets

Rooted in the spirit of BC’s coastal landscapes and designed with early childhood learning in mind, these interactive felt play sets bring tactile learning and storytelling to life. Centered around a soft, freestanding felt palm tree, each kit grows in richness and open-ended possibilities.

🌴 Fun Fact! Did you know British Columbia is home to Canada's only outdoor palm tree? The Windmill Palm (Trachycarpus fortunei) is a hardy species that can survive our West Coast winters. You can spot them growing in sheltered spots along the southern coastline of BC—especially in Victoria and Vancouver, where ocean breezes and mild temperatures help them thrive. These unexpected tropical trees make coastal BC feel like a little slice of paradise!

Small Set – “Tropical Beginnings”

Perfect for introducing letters and sparking early storytelling adventures.

Includes:

• 2-part felt palm tree trunk (fill base with wood/sand to stand)

• 6 soft green felt palm leaves

• 26 colourful felt letters

• 3 tropical felt friends: parrot, dragonfly, butterfly

• 2 literacy/numeracy spinners in tropical colours

• 2 natural seashells and 1 piece of driftwood for storytelling prompts

This set encourages letter matching, early spelling, fine motor development, and creative narrative skills. The spinners can be used as calming fidgets or playful tools to inspire games like “spin a sound” or “count and collect.”

Medium Set – “Coastal Connections”

Expanding on storytelling potential and ocean-inspired sensory play, this set invites children to dive deeper into imaginative scenes while developing early literacy and numeracy skills.

Includes everything in the Small Set, plus:

• 🐚 3 additional natural seashells for sorting, counting, and sensory exploration

• 🌊 5 fabric backdrop squares in ocean hues to set the scene for storytelling or use in dramatic play areas

• 🌐 2 large, handmade two-textured ocean blocks – one side rippled and blue like waves, the other side revealing a detailed peek at a creature from the Pacific Ocean (orca, octopus, lobster, etc.)
  These are especially captivating on the light table or in a water table setting.

Large Set – “Island Explorers”

An immersive, open-ended play and learning experience inspired by the beaches of BC's coastal islands—from Gabriola to Galiano and beyond.

Includes everything in the Medium Set, plus:

• 🐚 1 large abalone shell for tactile exploration and loose part storytelling

• 🦞 5 detailed handmade bio-based resin undersea creatures  perfect for sensory bins, water play, or creature classification (sea horses, lobsters, seastars)

• 🪵 An extra piece of driftwood to build more detailed natural scenes
  

• 🌊 More open-ended ocean play possibilities to support dramatic play, small world building, and collaborative storytelling

This large kit truly brings the Pacific coast to your classroom, early learning centre, or playroom. With a strong emphasis on BC’s Early Learning Framework, it supports children’s curiosity about their environment, builds oral language, promotes numeracy through sorting and counting, and allows for gentle introduction of ecological and coastal themes.