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What happens when learning meets fun? Magic!
Introducing the Desert & Dunes Hippo Mat™ — a desert play mat and educational play mat designed to spark imagination, storytelling, and hours of screen-free fun.
Designed to bring desert landscapes to life through imaginative, screen-free play.
With wide, car-friendly exploration tracks, great for toy cars, and 15+ desert features to discover, each play session becomes a new adventure. Children can invent routes, create rescue missions, and act out desert-inspired stories — from crossing the dunes to finding water at the oasis before nightfall.
The Desert & Dunes Hippo Mat™ features a playful, map-style layout inspired by real desert landforms, including:
As children explore routes and make up stories, they naturally practise:
This play mat is made with a soft microfiber velvet surface that feels smooth under hands and knees, making it ideal for floor play. A non-slip latex backing helps keep the mat in place when play gets energetic, while also helping to protect floors and reduce noise.
Read more about what’s included on the Desert & Dunes play mat.
Designed for imaginative everyday play, and made to feel gift-worthy from the moment it arrives.
£49.99
incl. VAT
In stock
Turns playtime into learning time. Children can build stories, explore places, practise direction and develop real-world awareness through imaginative, screen-free play.
Crafted to feel as special as it looks. Each Hippo Mat™ is made with durable backing, a soft microfibre surface, high-quality print and embroidered blue stitched edging for a beautifully finished feel.
A thoughtful gift for little explorers. Beautifully designed and full of play value, a Hippo Mat™ is a memorable present for birthdays, Christmas and special occasions.
The more eligible mats you add, the more your pre-order includes. Only valid until April 30th 2027:
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Everything above, plus:
Everything above, plus:
The more eligible mats you add, the more your pre-order includes. Only valid until April 30th 2027:
Become eligible for:
Everything above, plus:
Everything above, plus:
Hippo Mat™ is designed for children aged 2–6. The roads are wide for toy cars, the landmarks are simple and recognisable for imaginative play and early learning, and the high quality materials are safe for young skin.
The Natural World range is built around six illustrated habitat themes: Arctic & Tundra, Ocean & Coral Coast, Desert & Dunes, Rainforest Run, Mountain & Glacier, and Woodlands & Wetlands. Each mat is designed to feel like a complete little world, with its own landscape, features, and play possibilities. The aim is to give children a rich setting for imaginative play while helping them become more familiar with different natural environments.
Yes. The Natural World range is designed to support learning through play. Each mat introduces children to different habitats and encourages conversations about animals, landscapes, weather, movement, and the natural world. It is not about turning playtime into a lesson. Instead, it gives children a playful setting where curiosity can grow naturally through storytelling, exploration, and everyday play.
Our location mats are themed to real places, with recognisable towns, cities, and landmarks children may know from everyday life. The Natural World range takes a different approach. Each design is centred around a habitat-inspired world, giving children a setting for stories, exploration, and nature-themed play. In simple terms, location mats are about real places, while Natural World mats are about immersive natural environments. Both are made for imaginative play, but each range offers its own distinct kind of adventure.
Yes. We design wide, drivable roads first, then build the rest of the map around them so cars can travel smoothly without clutter.
Hippo Mat™ is a premium printed play mat made for everyday play, featuring a microfiber velvet surface with a non-slip latex backing. It’s designed to be giftable, durable, and easy to use on the floor at home.
Hippo Mat™ is made for children’s play and designed with simple, clear artwork. The non-slip latex backing helps to prevent sliding for those intense play sessions. and the microfiber velvet surface won’t leave any nasty friction. Always supervise young children during play, and keep packaging away from children.
This mat is 100cm × 100cm. The embroidered stitching edges are approximately 1cm thick, and the main surface is around 0.6cm thick.
When shipped to you, it is rolled up into 114cm × 10.2cm cylinder tube.
Yes — for everyday mess, you can wipe the surface clean using warm soapy water.
It is not advised to use harsh chemicals or machine wash.
Generic play mats are usually made to be one-size-fits-all. Hippo Mat™ is different. Our mats are inspired by real locations and created to combine premium design, imaginative play, and local meaning in one product. That means clearer layouts for toy cars, more recognisable features, and a play experience that feels richer, more personal, and more memorable.
On most surfaces it stays put during normal play. If you have very smooth floors, a simple non-slip underlay (or rug gripper) helps keep it perfectly stable.
Yes. Hippo Mat™ is designed to feel premium and gift-worthy, and the “local place” theme makes it personal for birthdays, Christmas and new-home gifts.
Yes — Hippo Mat™ is built around real locations. If your area isn’t listed yet, you can request it and we’ll prioritise new designs based on demand.
Until November 2027, every Hippo Mat™ order is a pre-order that will arrive anytime between October 1st and December 20th 2027. Once this pre-order period has ended, orders will usually be dispatched within 2 working days.
After dispatch, estimated delivery times are:
Delivery times are estimates and may vary during busy periods or due to customs and local carrier delays.
If it’s not right for you, you can initiate the return of your Hippo Mat™ order within 14 days of delivery.
Contact us and we’ll help you quickly.
Yes — Reg’s Pledge: every mat helps fund play and learning for children.
Yes — we offer bulk pricing for nurseries, schools, and early learning centres.
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50% off your third eligible Hippo Mat™
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Every Hippo Mat™ helps fund play and learning for children through Reg’s Pledge.
Would you share Hippo Mat™ with someone who’d love it too? A friend, family member, school, nursery, or local group is a great place to start.
The more people who discover Hippo Mat™, the more good Reg’s Pledge can do.
