Saturday 22 September 2018

The Field from Class Grass - Imaginative Toy Review (age 3+)

The Field is an amazing toy product from Ireland that really is a game-changer. Your figures, animals and vehicles can have a really impressive backdrop instantly, and that's incredibly satisfying - even to a grown up. Well-made and impressively realistic, I can honestly say this has been far more of a hit here than I expected.


You're allowed to be sceptical, I was sceptical, but genuinely since I put The Compound and The Field out, our living room table has never seen so much use.


When your kids are playing, whatever world they are creating, it's on the floor or the table. Imagination and creativity are great, a carpet can become anything, but adding grass means your imagination is free to create the story. It's also a great starting point, this is instant outdoors.


We've been sent The Field and The Compound to review. Both are the same size, 63cm (24") x 44cm (17") and both are solid hardboard backed with the plastic grassy covering. The Compound is a straightforward grassy meadow.


The Field has a hedge around all sides and an incredibly cute opening wooden gate.


The toys are really well made. I like the quality and the attention to detail. The corners are really tight and the wooden gate is fixed by nails. This is a classic wooden toy upgraded and updated.


The length of hedging and grass is perfect because cars can wheel across it and figures can stand up, but it is still lush. It has a very tactile finish and spring, and you can't see the backing at all. These are a great base board for storing your toys between play - tuck it under the sofa out of the way.


Every The Field Toy product comes with a Title Deed that your child can fill out to prove ownership of their land. It's a nice touch. This is a toy that was developed entirely with play and children in mind, not to suit a fad, and any of your child's current imaginative or small world toys can be played with on it.



The Field and The Compound are both great for any imaginative 'outdoor' play that you can think of. We've already had farms, parks, gardens, a crime scene, a campsite and a village fair, and a lot of Jurassic Park. My boys are 8 and almost 10, so they're towards the top end of the age group for playing with The Field. I'm substantially older and I really like it for photos...


We were so impressed that we even tested the durability of The Compound by altering the weather slightly and introducing some snow. This combo is the most popular thing they've played with this year so far I reckon... (And it does all come off when you are done. You just remove most of it, wait for the rest to dry out and then tip that off).



Here's a quick video review showing more of that snowy logging operation...


The Field is a Class Grass Irish Product suitable for age 3+ and there are lots of different products available, starting at £19.99rrp for The Compound. The Field costs £39.99rrp. Find out more and look at the whole range on The Field Toy website and you can also find The Field Toy Shop on Amazon*.


I had a Class Grass The Compound to give away to one of my readers. Entry to the giveaway closed at midnight Sunday 21st October. You can find my current giveaways on my Giveaways Page.

We were sent our The Field Toys for review and reimbursed for some of the time taken to administer the giveaway. *Amazon links are affiliate, so if you buy through my link I make a few pence as a thank you, but you don't pay any more. 

62 comments:

  1. I would create a world based on a farm

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  2. I'd love to create a fairy land with toatstools, fairies and unicorns!

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  3. A little farm

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  4. I would make an awesome animal world on this field!

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  5. I would create a dog sanctuary with dogs of every size and colour!

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  6. My granddaughter would recreate a fairyland complete with mushrooms and little fairies

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  7. I could see my girls creating a fairy community and making things for them

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  8. I would try to recreate Emmerdale Farm as it used to be.

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  9. IT WOULD HAVE TO BE A FARM WITH LOTS OF TRACTORS & MACHINERY

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  10. What small world would you create on your field? . . . . a farm with mythical animals

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  11. I would create a zoo with lots of tigers, giraffes and elephants!

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  12. My kids would create a jungle.

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  13. I think i would create a theme park.

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  14. A picnic scene with tiny teddies!

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  15. A home for greyhounds who have been used for races and are now to old to race and need a home.

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  16. I'm sure my son would create a dinosaur world

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  17. We would create a woodland world with owls, squirrels, rabbits, badgers, foxes, hedgehogs etc, oh and different trees of course

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  18. My three year old is obsessed by tractors so I'm sure he'd be ploughing the fields and harvesting the crops on his

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  19. A dinosaur land with my little grandson

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  20. id create a little fairy land for my daughter

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  21. A dinosaur land for my eldest son and a woodland scene for my middle son.

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  22. A little village, with a pub, post office and church

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  23. My son actually uses my fluffy green bath mat to make his own one of these. I had no idea i could buy one

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  24. A Savannah with lions, giraffes & elephants. Favourites of my youngest

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  25. I would create a dinosaur land for my sons! They love dinosaurs

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  26. Farm. As would be nice to have sheep, with working sheepdogs.

    Rachel Craig

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  27. As my son is mad on farms it would have to be a farming scene

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  28. I think Rabbit world would be wonderful

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  29. My kids would love playing Jurassic Park on there!

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  30. This would be amazing for my kids

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  31. We visited a zoo in the summer so it would have to be that with my Nephews favourite Giraffe's of course xx

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  32. Heli L - Knowing my daughter, she'd either create a Sylvanian Families World or a Shopkins World!

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  33. I'd create a magical fairyland with unicorns!

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  34. I'm pretty sure my nephew Max would create a world with dinosaurs and animals that live together, he loved them all!

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  35. a magical garden with unicorns and princess's

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  36. My girls lOve animals so would make it as a farm for them xx

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  37. My boy Charlie loves his farm animals so would be the farm

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  38. I would create a dinosaur land for my nephews.

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  39. I think i would have to create a mini zoo

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  40. I would create a Jurassic Park style dinosaur land.

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  41. A farm, my Son love playing and learning about animals

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  42. I’d create a fairy adventure garden with a little woodland, mushroom houses and enchanting things

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  43. I would create a totally organic natural wildflower meadow for butterflies, bees & other insects as so much their habitat has been ruined by crop sprays/chemicals & precious species of butterflies etc are facing extinction.

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  44. I’d create a village green fair with rides and lots of people

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  45. I would creat a gruffalo trail for my daughter x

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  46. I would create a magical land full of unicorns, pixies and fairies

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