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Tape Road Race
Here's one to try together!
Turn the floor into a race track in five minutes.
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Safety first
- Small toy cars are a choking hazard for under 3s: use big cars only.
What you need
- Painter's tape
- Toy cars
- Paper (optional)
- Crayons or markers (optional)
- Book or box, 1, for a tunnel
How to do it
Grown-up prep: Lay one long road of tape with a couple of curves. Leave the rest of the roll for the kids to extend.
- Pick your race car and give it a name. Ask: What is your car called?
- Drive your cars along the starter road.
- Add more tape roads that lead to the couch, a door or a bedroom. Ask: Where should the road go next?
- Make a tunnel from a book or a box.
- Draw a gas station or a house on paper and tape it beside the road.
- Line up for a race. Whose car gets to the finish line first?
- Now try a slow race. The slowest car to the finish wins! Ask: Can you go super slow without stopping?
- Give a grown-up the grand tour of your town, then plan a new road for tomorrow!
Play it again
- Delivery driver: carry a block on your car from one end of town to a house without leaving the road.
- Traffic lights: a grown-up calls red, yellow and green, and every driver stops and goes.
- Night drive: dim the lights and drive with a flashlight for headlights.
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