Outdoor play table: which one!?

[Convex]

Hello

Thinking about some kind of outdoor play table to help occupy my 18mo while we are gardening etc

And for general messy okay which he loves

Something like this?

http://www.elc.co.uk/Sand-and-Water-Table/122808,default,pd.html

Any recommendations?

[jonbateson]

We have the asda sand and water table, it has great accessories and part acts like a lid, ?15 plus a bag of sand ?2 our two 3 and 1 love it, it's been outside for the last 2 weeks no problem

[lenster]

We have a secondhand elc one like that and it has been brilliant for our 22 mo. Would recommend keeping to just sand or just water for each play time though to avoid the inevitable mixing of the two.

[snowboarder]

We have an older version of the elc one and whilst my boys love it I find it annoying! The legs don't seem that sturdy (maybe we have a dodgy one?), as mentioned above sand in one side water in the other means really wet sand forever in both, and rain water seems to get in meaning that you open it up and the sand has gone all green....nice...

But maybe we were unlucky - and as I said my two don't notice any of this and think it's great! Not huge though - it's too small really (height wise) for my 4 yr old now, perfect for 2 yr old.

[katgod]

we have this - http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/3952186.htm have had it about 7 years still going strong, stored outdoors all year - agree you need to decide sand or water, not both. we go for sand. Nots ure if that link will work - is argos, step 2 sand table. ?84.99. One of our better purchases I think.