Friday, October 8, 2010

puckettville

Matt got the brilliant idea the other day, to make a town with roads for Simeon. He decided to get everyone involved. It became a family project. He wanted Genesis to draw the roads, but soon she was frustrated and we figured out that by having a girl do the design meant having lots of buildings and meadows for animals and flowers, and a river. Which isn't really conducive for a "car driving" board. There was no more room for the roads. What is most important to boys are the roads. Having a big enough road in proportion to the cars so you could fit two lanes, having a parking lot with enough room to "back out", etc, etc. So we ended up compromising. We made the parking lot and roads a little bit bigger and then filled in with the grasses and houses and river. I think everybody was happy with the end result. It's kinda big and a pain to store and drag out every 5 minutes, but worth it. The kids really like it. I even find Glory in there by herself, playing.

The kids are being monsters attacking Puckettville in this picture. Too bad we couldn't fit their faces AND the board in the same picture, but I was already in the closet trying to take it.

1 comments:

Erin said...

I remember the boys doing this when we were younger on some ply wood. It didn't look at good as yours. Tell Matt he's improving. :)