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Welcome to the website for the Craftplay Factory Shop! Home for your art and craft needs – all at our special factory shop prices.

The Craftplay Factory Shop is the retail outlet for the UK’s leading educational arts and crafts manufacturer. Our products are found in schools, mail order catalogues and in high street shops.

At Craftplay you will find a huge selection of art and craft materials for the budding artist or creative youngster including stencils, modelling utensils and materials, paint accessories, craft projects, themed craft activities and a large selection of collage materials. Craftplay also carries the very popular branded children’s gardening range – Young Gardener. Our products are both fun and educational.

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News.
8.7.2009
Our products have passed the required safety tests and many are used in kits we manufacture for leading brands. So you can buy with complete confidence that children are getting quality products, at a great price, that are really fun to use.
Have you tried our colourful Paint Pads? These are made using 'finger painting safe' colours and are great for end of term palm printing projects.
At home based parties children could make prints of their clean hands. Allow the paint to dry, cut around the image and use them as place mats or in games.
We have designed paint accessories to use with the paint pads. Our picture rollers come in 6 different themes including Jungle, Town and Sea Life and any of our hard textured stampers (not sponge) are ideal with the pads.

30.6.2009
With the summer holidays looming up now is a good time to get in stocks for parties and projects.
Check out our Craft Project section - it is full of things children can make and decorate. Crowns for parties, hand puppets for shows, flocked masks, in three different packs, for imaginative play. And - something we could all do with in this hot weather - paper fans!!!

Have you tried our Amazing Maize it sticks together without glue, offering a great non mess activity.
All that is required is some water and the child's imagination. Make anything from a slithery snake to a castle with battlements.
Check out the Building Noodles section where you will discover we stock Amazing Maize noodles, Activity cards, Picture Packs (ideal for young children to stick Amazing Maize shapes on) and even noodle tools to help make funky shapes.

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Now that the chance of frost has passed this is the time to get planting out in the garden.
Our Young gardener range of tools and accessories makes it easy for kids to join in and have fun gardening. We have both long handled and hand tools, watering cans and buckets and a range of grow kits - all in attractive colours and offering good quality at a good price.
Why not order some Sunflower kits and see whose sunflower grows the tallest?
We even have window boxes for those without suitable gardens.

Hand made cards and tags can be decorated using flowers prepared in our special flower press.

Check out the Young Gardener section for the full range of gardening tools and accessories and garden related craft products.

Do you like a bargain? In these 'credit crunch' times buying a copy of The Official Factory Shop Guide will help you find all sorts of items at discounted prices. We currently have this book on special offer for even greater savings. Check out the clearance and special offer section.

Thank you for all those who attended the Trade Shows this year. It was good to catch up with all of our customers and meet new ones.

Lets make this a successful 2009!