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Seaside Car Track Busy Bag

July 28, 2015 by Emma Gadsby 1 Comment

Regular readers will know Adam loves his car tracks. From a giant track to an edible one, a portable car track to one that covered our living room – we have created several different types. It seemed a natural progression then to have a summer themed track for us to take on holiday – cue our seaside car track busy bag.

Adventures of Adam Seaside Car Track Busy Bag

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Our summer time car track had to be small enough to fit inside both our hand luggage and a beach bag. I found the perfect container – Adam’s sunglasses case. Next I needed material that could be turned into several pieces of track that would fit inside the sunglasses case. Lolly craft sticks were an ideal size.

Adventures of Adam lolly stick car track

I needed approximately 20 lolly sticks and used a laundry peg hanger to hold the lolly sticks in place whilst I painted them black. Once the first coat of paint was dry I turned the lolly sticks around and painted the remaining parts. I used a Tipp-Ex Pocket Mouse to create the white lines running down the middle of the car track. It took a little practice to get the Tipp-Ex to make a straight line.

Adventures of Adam small world road signs

For our Seaside car track busy bag I decided to have an additional element and make road signs. With the help of Twinkl I printed their “Small World Road Signs and Traffic Lights” sheet to make six different types of road signs. I cut out eight versions of each road sign and laminated the pieces. I used sellotape to attach two road signs back to back and inserted a lolly stick through the middle. The track and interchangeable road signs fitted perfectly inside the sunglasses case.

Adventures of Adam Seaside Busy Bag

With our seaside car track busy bag completed there was only one thing left to do – take it to the beach to test it out.

Adventures of Adam Beach car track

The lolly sticks formed a great car track that could be made in a variety of ways. We pushed the road signs into the sand so they stood upright.

Adventures of Adam Make a car road at the beach

Adam was able to choose a road sign and slot it onto the lolly stick independently. Although Adam’s small cars looked huge on the car track Adam didn’t seem to mind.

Adventures of Adam Beach play with a toddler

After a while Adam rearranged the lolly sticks to form another car track and started to experiment by adding stones to the scene. I will no doubt be taking our Tipp-Ex Pocket Mouse to the beach in the future to see what features we can add to the stones to make it look like a small world.

Adventures of Adam Beach car track play

At the end of a long day of playing the sand was beginning to rub the black paint off of the lolly sticks. I wonder if adding a layer of watered down PVA glue to act as a varnish will this improve this for future play. We are certainly looking forward to taking our seaside car track busy bag abroad with us on holiday!

 

Equipment

* Lolly craft sticks

* Black paint

* Small World Road Signs and Traffic Lights from Twinkl

* Laundry peg hanger

* Tipp-Ex Pocket Mouse

* Sunglasses case

* Laminator

* Sellotape

Disclaimer: We received a Premium Subscription from Twinkl to review. All thoughts and opinions are our own.

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Filed Under: Independent Play Activity, Play Activities, Some time required Tagged With: Busy Bag Play Activities, DIY activities, Independent Play Activities, Lollipop sticks, Non-messy activity, Outdoor Play Activities, Toddler play, Transport activity, Twinkl Resources

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  1. Niki says

    July 28, 2015 at 9:37 pm

    Wow! This looks fantastic, I bet Adam will make lots of friends at the beach with his cool car track 🙂

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