Seating Solutions

Seating can be a major ingredient in the overall characterisation of your school grounds. Our well-designed seating provides a number of benefits and uses such as a place for gathering and social activity; a place to eat, read, do school work or play games; an area to wait for a lift home; a space to divide different use areas and a place to stop, rest and reflect.

Whether you are looking to seat and entire class outside, or create peaceful seating areas for children to go and complete a task or read quietly, we have a seating solution for you.

Our range of seating includes a Story Tellers Chair, tree seats, friendship benches and mazes. For a little extra cost clients may customise their seating by having it engraved, the perfect way for a school, PTA, or class group to personalise their seating. Choose a logo, commemorate a special occasion or person, or use designs and drawings created by the children, alternatively choose from our stock of designs such as mini beasts and crawlies!

There are other seating options to be viewed in our play sculptures range.

Story Tellers Chair

Product ID: 05461

Securely fixed into the ground the Story Tellers chair is 1500mm high and comes engraved with “Once Upon a Time”. Alternatively for a little extra cost, clients can have a personalised engraving to suit. Can be used on its own or installed with our button stools to create the perfect story circle. Warning - those who sit on it must tell a tale!
- Age Range: All Ages
- Safer Surfacing not required if only used as seating
Amazing Seating

Product ID: 05471

Our pentagonal maze can seat up to 60 children and broadens the imagination of pupils and teachers alike in terms of the games that can be played and the educational value it provides. The maze is our bestseller and brings many benefits to the school environment as it extends classroom into playground. It is suitable for children of all ages, can be used as a quiet area forming the basis of storytelling circle and is suitable to be installed into any surface.
- Age Range: All Ages
- Safer Surfacing not required if only used as seating
Octagonal Amazing Seating

Product ID: 05462

Our octagonal maze is slightly larger than our pentagonal maze but retains all of the same benefits (see Amazing Seating above)
- Age Range: All Ages
- Safer Surfacing not required if only used as seating
Mini Maze

Product ID: 05472

As our Amazing Seating but on a much smaller scale!
- Age Range: All Ages
- Safer Surfacing not required if only used as seating
Horseshoe Bench

Product ID: 05482

This attractive piece measures 3872mm by 3400mm and if budget allows we encourage clients to have their seating engraved to personalise it with a logo, commemorate a special occasion or person, or designs and drawings created by the children. This picture shows how it has been used with particular effect as a prayer bench engraved with the Lord’s Prayer.
- Age Range: All Ages
- Safer Surfacing not required if only used as seating
Buddy Bus Stop

Product ID: 05481

Designed to encourage nurturing skills through a nominated monitor system.
- Age Range: All Ages
- Safer Surfacing not required if only used as seating
Share Chair

Product ID: 05483

Our Share Chair is an attractive seating arrangement, however we have discovered an additional benefit, it provides the perfect seating arrangement for a special needs learning environment as it allows teachers and pupils to sit next to each other, engage in conversation but does not involve eye contact, making it ideal for schools with autistic pupils and challenging behaviour.
- Age Range: All Ages
- Safer Surfacing not required if only used as seating
Hand Seat

Product ID: 05484

Our embracing hand seat makes an unusual addition to any outdoor area.
- Age Range: All Ages
- Safer Surfacing not required if only used as seating
Starfish Table

Product ID: 05491

Shell Seats

Product ID: 05492

Seaside themed table and seats tailored to an appropriate height ideal for outdoor learning sessions and picnics.
- Age Range: All Ages
- Safer Surfacing not required if only used as seating
Hexagonal Table

Product ID: 05493

Engraved Button Stools

Product ID: 05494

Table and seats tailored to an appropriate height ideal for outdoor learning sessions and picnics.
- Age Range: All Ages
- Safer Surfacing not required if only used as seating
Wave Bench

Product ID: 05495

This 1880mm long bench is made from treated softwood as standard or if budget allows a combination of both softwood and iroko is particularly striking.
- Age Range: All Ages
- Safer Surfacing not required if only used as seating
Swan Seat

Product ID: 05496

One of a number of robust and distinctive animal play sculptures which can be used for play or seating. Hand crafted and securely fixed to the ground, our range includes a frog, bee, grasshopper, butterfly, and dragonfly to provide an attractive yet functional element of nature to even the most urban of all play areas.
- Age Range: All Ages
- Safer Surfacing not required if only used as seating
Tree Seat

Product ID: 05501

Seating that frames your tree and allows you to enjoy its shade. For a little extra cost they can be engraved with the designs of the children.
- Age Range: All Ages
- Safer Surfacing not required if only used as seating
Bulrush Seat

Product ID: 05502

Ideal seating for a nature area or garden and includes a bulrush sculpture and planter.
- Age Range: All Ages
- Safer Surfacing not required if only used as seating
Pergola Seat

Product ID: 05503

Includes bench seating on both sides, for shade add your favourite climbing clematis or rose for a cool and appealing addition to your outdoor space.
- Age Range: All Ages
- Safer Surfacing not required if only used as seating
Engraved Bench

Product ID: 05505

This straight-forward bench measures 1.8m and can be installed to the clients preferred height. We encourage clients to have their seating engraved to personalise it with a logo, commemorate a special occasion or person, or designs and drawings created by the children. This picture shows how it has been engraved with our own mini-beast designs.
- Age Range: All Ages
- Safer Surfacing not required if only used as seating
Friendship Bench

Product ID: 05511

This sturdy bench is ideal as a Friendship Bench a special place in the playground where a child can go when they want someone to talk to. If budget allows we encourage clients to have their seating engraved to personalise it with a logo, commemorate a special occasion or person, or designs and drawings created by the children.
- Age Range: All Ages
- Safer Surfacing not required if only used as seating
Story Circle complete with 8 Block Seats

Product ID: 05517

Securely fixed into the ground the Story Tellers chair is 1500mm high and can be engraved with our standard “Once Upon a Time” or for a little extra a personalised engraving to suit. Complete with eight button stools to create the perfect story circle.
- Age Range: All Ages
- Safer Surfacing not required if only used as seating
Leaf Seats & Table

Oak Leaf Table Product ID: 05512

Maple Leaf Seat Product ID: 05513

Oak Leaf Seat Product ID: 05514

Sycamore Leaf Seat Product ID: 05515

Beech Leaf Seat Product ID: 05516

This new range reflects the shapes of some of the UK’s most popular native leaves and currently includes an oak leaf shaped table and seats taking the form of maple, sycamore, oak and beech leaves. Nature plays a key role in many Hand Made Places’ products and plans are already in place to expand the variety of leaves available as both tables and seats.
- Age Range: All Ages
- Safer Surfacing not required if only used as seating
Standard Bench

Product ID: 05504

This straight-forward bench measures 1.8m and can be installed to the clients preferred height. If budget allows we encourage clients to have their seating engraved to personalise it with a logo, commemorate a special occasion or person, or designs and drawings created by the children (see Engraved Bench).
- Age Range: All Ages
- Safer Surfacing not required if only used as seating
Radius Curved Bench

Product ID: 05485

Our modular radius curved seating has been designed to allow for a number of desirable seating arrangements. Through combining inside and outside radius units you can create a dramatically different modular seating group. By varying the layout and number of curved units you can create a full circle, semi-circle, horseshoe or even serpentine shapes to name a few, thereby providing the most efficient use of seating space. Each section measures 1.3m long.
- Age Range: All Ages
- Safer Surfacing not required if only used as seating
Wishing Chair

Product ID: 05463

It's called the Wishing Chair and it is inviting people to sit on it and make a wish!

Can be used on its own or installed with our button stools to create the perfect story circle.
- Age Range: All Ages
- Safer Surfacing not required if only used as seating