Friday, January 30, 2009

Activity Ideas #2

This week seemed crazy busy so we didn't do much 'out-of-the-ordinary' activities. But here's a quick, easy, and fun idea...

All you need is a few matchbox cars and a role of masking tape. Make some roads and let them at it...The older kids can even help layout the design. I usually do this in the evening close to bedtime and then leave it up through part of the next morning.

No cars? Or a kid who doesn't like cars much? Make them paths for marching, rolling, or crawling along.

3 comments:

NaDell said...

That's clever.
With our cub scouts, I had them make boats out of masking tape on the carpet to sit in once to learn about boat safety, so if they were pretending to fall out, they had to stay in the boat to help them, etc. They had a lot of fun.
Thanks for the tip.

Shayla said...

This is a really great idea. So simple, too. My girls would set up an entire city around this, I'm sure.

Jodi said...

OMGoodness!! That is such a great idea! Bennett just saw your picture and said, "Who's track? I WANT ONE!" Guess I'll be buying me some masking tape! This is awesome!