Sweet little Levi loves cars so I had to make him a page with cars on it that he could move around. My grand plan was to make a double page with one long road that curved around through an interesting landscape. I spent a whole day trying to figure out how to do this. I make the big road and used a pipe cleaner as the track to attach the car since I could bend it, but the pipe cleaner wouldn't stay put so I had all of these ridiculous tunnels to try to keep it in place. It looked bizarre. Only in Japan would a road have that many tunnels. So eventually I caved and decided that it would have straight line roads with multiple cars. I was going to have two horizontal roads and one vertical road.... It was too much black so I ripped out the vertical road and made the natural scene a little bigger. Doesn't everyone prefer another grassy hill and an apple tree to another road? I know that technically roads are considered open space by the Carlsbad development committee, but in my world.... I digress. I wanted more trees
I like to have my son test these things out as I make them. His favorite part was.... the DUCKS. Hummm. Maybe I shouldn't have spent for ever trying to come up with roads and should have just made a duck pond. At first I attached the ducks with a small string to the middle of the pond so they wouldn't fly away, then I added velcro to the ducks and their base of operation. After moving them around a few times I decided the velcro was lame and removed it. Now they are more free ranging ducks.
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| The finished product!!!! |
My four year old moved the duck onto the top road and had the police car run him over..... I think this could be made for an older child too with a little apple basket and removable apples. I have so much c r a p all around my house that I wanted everything to stay connected to the book.
If anyone knows how to make a winding road with a car attached, let me know!
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