Activity Table Buying Guide

Picking the perfect place to create and learn

Activity tables are a geometry class of shapes and sizes, and each serves a need. What's yours? Classroom table for easy authority? Bead table or Lego table for focused fun? Use this buying guide to narrow down the endless choices to a tight A-list that will serve you well for years to come.

Who's the boss? Do you need to be the center of attention? Horseshoe- and kidney-shaped classroom tables wrap children around you, so you can better keep their attention and make eye contact with each individual. Every child has room to work while still being within arm's reach. If you are free to roam and want children to interact equally among themselves, cloverleaf and circular activity tables are your choice. For odd spaces or just an interesting look, classroom tables come shaped from trapezoids to triangles, doughnuts to daisies.

What is it for?

Do you just need some space to work? Classroom tables give you clear, clean and sturdy work surfaces, including adjustable legs to accommodate any age. Remember to choose chairs appropriate to the age of the students. Lightweight buckles are available to keep even the tiniest tots secure, and some tables have baby seats built into them, like a high chair that seats six.

For more focused activity, activity tables inspire and concentrate play by providing supplies useful to the task at hand. Art tables are stocked with brushes, pencils, crayons and paper, easels and art boards inspire children to think panoramically, while sand tables get aspiring sculptors thinking like the next Michelangelo.

Sand and water tables let you take advantage of hands-on, fingers-in fun, while containing the elements to keep kids safe and clean, keeping grit and water off the floor. Special art sand like Moon Sand is colorful and clean, and it is sticky enough to sculpt and stay put.

Driven to distraction

Waiting rooms and offices need help to distract and involve children to safe and quiet play. Bead tables, train tables and Lego tables are fantastic at keeping kids happily occupied for short lengths of time, and are designed to be maintenance free so the office staff doesn't have to keep cleaning up after little visitors. Tools and magnets can be easily tethered to the table so they don't wander off with the kids.

Whether you're a teacher seeking a classroom table or you want a creativity boost for kids, we have a special activity table for you.