Creative Play Awards
The 2025 Creative Play Awards results are announced!
Celebrating Screen-free Creative Play!
Now in their 18th year, the prestigious 2025 Creative Play Awards results have now been collated and the Winners and Highly Commended entries will be published within the latest Winter issue of Creative Steps magazine, as well as on www.creativesteps.co.uk and across all its social media platforms.
Sponsored and organised by Creative Steps magazine, the Creative Play Awards promote creative play as vital in a child’s development. The results of these Awards recognise the best products available to enhance creative development in young children and are beneficial to the consumer and educational settings when making purchasing decisions.
John Hopley, editor of Creative Steps commented: “Now in their 18th year, the 2025 Creative Play Awards received an increased number of entries, including products from as far afield as Australia, so the Winners and Highly Commended entries should be very proud. These Awards help recognise some of the best creative play toys, games, books and resources available in the UK, with products assessed by independent testers in homes, schools, early years and childcare settings around the country, emphasising the importance of screen -free learning through creative play for young children.”
The 2025 Winners and Highly Commended entries are as follows:
Toys and Games – Indoor (0-3 years)
Winner – Educational Advantage: Wooden Lacing Leaves
Toys and Games – Indoor (4-7 years)
Winner – Plus-Plus: Plus-Plus Puzzle by Number Activity Pads
Highly Commended – Learning Resources: Numberblocks® Add It Up Mini Market
Toys and Games – Indoor (8-11 years)
Winner – Scrungo Games: Monkey Mayhem
Highly Commended – Winning Moves: Top Trumps GODDIT – World Football Stars
Toys and Games – Outdoor (0-3 years)
Winner – Polydron UK: XL Octoplay
Toys and Games – Outdoor (4-7 years)
Winner – Wilton Bradley: Toyrific – Stepping Stones
Toys and Games – Outdoor (8-11 years)
Winner – Landscapes for Learning: Throw for Four
Painting/Colouring/Modelling Materials (4-7 years)
Winner – Little Brian: Little Brian Flip Paint Sticks
Highly Commended – Addo Play: Nick Jr. Ready Steady Dough Party Food Station Dough Playset
Craft Kits (4-7 years)
Winner – My Creative Box: Under the Sea Sensory Dough Craft Kit
Highly Commended – My Creative Box: Garden Collage Sensory Craft Box
Craft Kits (8-11 years)
Winner – Addo Play: Out To Impress Aqua Jelly Art Craft Set
Highly Commended – HUE: Hue Animation Toolbox
Imaginative Role Play (0-3 years)
Winner – Bigjigs Toys: Fish and Chips
Highly Commended – Polydron UK: Giant Polydron Dinosaur
Imaginative Role Play (4-7 years)
Winner – Crafty Ponies: My New Baby Foal
Highly Commended – Learning Resources: Campfire Chatmallows™ – Storytelling Set
Imaginative Role Play (8-11 years)
Winner – Landscapes for Learning: Chalkboard Building Blocks set
Highly Commended – Woodly Woo: Woodlys of Woodly Woo
Electronic and Multimedia (0-3 years)
Winner – Fish Tales & Rhymes: The Complete Collection of Nursery Rhymes in Mandarin Chinese
Electronic and Multimedia (4-7 years)
Winner – Tonies: Toniebox 2
Highly Commended – Leap Frog: Leap Move
Special Educational Needs Toys/Resources (0-3 years)
Winner – Bigjigs Toys: Sensory Board
Special Educational Needs Toys/Resources (4-7 years)
Winner – CONNETIX: CONNETIX 28 Piece Light Star Pack
STEM Resources (4-7 years)
Winner – Addo Play: Early Learning Centre Sort, Match and Count Animals Game
Highly Commended – Flair/GP: Plasticine Skwishems
STEM Resources (8-11 years)
Winner – Brainstorm: Cool Chemistry Kit
Highly Commended – CONNETIX: CONNETIX PRO 70 Piece Constructor set
Highly Commended – Thames & Kosmos: Solarbots
Teaching Resources (0-3 years)
Winner – Bloomsbury: 50 Fantastic Ideas for STEM Activities
Teaching Resources (4-7 years)
Winner – Bloomsbury: A Creative Approach to Teaching Science Outdoors
Highly Commended – Orchard Toys: Colour Match Express
Teaching Resources (8-11 years)
Winner – Bloomsbury: 100 Ideas for Primary Teachers: Playful Learning
Books (Children 0-5 years)
Winner –Nosy Crow: Fold-Out + Play: Doll’s House by Ingela P Arrhenius
Highly Commended – Bloomsbury: It’s OK to Say No
Books (Children 6+ years)
Winner – Nosy Crow: Build Your Own Solar System by Lauren Fairgrieve & Anja Sušanj
Highly Commended – DK: Super Cuties: A Cosy Halloween Colouring Book
For more information contact the Creative Steps editor, John Hopley – john@creativesteps.co.uk
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