Simple items for lots of fun!

Duct tape is a very useful thing to have about the house. This time it came in handy to transfigure our rug into a roadway for the boys to drive their little cars all over.

Duct tape car-park

I rolled out long strips of duct tape and stuck them to the rug to make a circuit with some cross roads and a car-park at one end. I used a permanent marker to add details to the road, such as marking out the car spaces and placing dashes for the centre lines. L made the boys a car-wash and joined it to the road with another piece of tape.

The car-wash.

We used Matchbox and Hot Wheels cars, small CAT diggers and some other small vehicles we found in the toy-box. There were even a few wooden trains riding the roads! T1 particularly liked parking the cars, while T2 made many of them crash. He also used a small bulldozer to move some of the cars off the road. L and A enjoyed using the car track too, and spent a lot of time “washing” cars in the car-wash.

Once we were finished playing, I pulled up the tape and threw it out. There was no sticky residue left on the rug, and we’d had a great time playing cars!

Driving cars.

Parking cars.

Crashing cars.

Washing cars.