Adventure Silks Heroic Forest

Tied at the neck, and you're Robin Hood; spread on the floor, with wooden figures and animals, the silk is a wood. Heroic Forest is a generously sized playsilk in deep green, one of the Adventure Silks range, and it works as both dress-up and small world landscape. Because it suggests a setting without fixing one, your child decides who lives there and what happens next.

Green for every growing thing

In small world play, green stands in for grass, canopy, moss and hedgerow - the ground that wooden animals and little figures need before a story can start. Children tend to build the setting first and the plot second, and having a landscape to lay down makes that first step an easy one.

Pair it with water

Add a blue silk and you have almost every scene a child could want: river through woodland, island, coast, marsh. 

A prop that keeps up

The same silk that is a cloak at three becomes a den roof at five and a costume detail at seven, because nothing about it insists on a single use. If you'd like somewhere to start, there are plenty of ideas for one length of fabric - though most children need no prompting at all.