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| A travel road map made from felt and glue. |
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| The large house is a pocket that you can park a small car in. |
The idea was an easy one, but making 10 of them has been a little time consuming. It has been worth it though. I am super happy with how they turned out. Each one is decorated with trees, a lake, 2 small houses, 2 stores, and one large house that acts as a pocket to park a small car. I also found bulletin board road signs that I added felt to to make more durable.
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| The back of the map includes a blue pocket for extra cars a spot for the road signs. I used extra felt to hold the two sides together. |
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| The map folds up easily into thirds to fit into any diaper bag or purse. |
So how did I do it?
It was super simple. I used this template from Serving Pink Lemonade for the road and small houses. I cut the template apart to fit as many pieces onto each black piece of felt as I could. I cutout templates for the other accessories and went to town cutting out a ton of felt. If you want templates for those, let me know I will post them, but they were really easy to figure out.
I cutout all the pieces for the houses, stores, and trees and glued them together with a felt craft glue.
After getting all my pieces together, I hot-glued everything onto my green pieces of felt.
I took a small piece of black felt and hot-glued it to the back to keep the two pieces together, and I added the pocket for storage.
Calan has already been playing with his and he loves the extra road signs. So, glad that I added felt to the back of them because he has already tried to crush them and chew on them. Not sure how long they will last, but for now they are holding up.
This is AWESOME!!!! I would love to make something like this! Thank you SO much for sharing at Thrifty Thursday this week! :)
ReplyDeleteI just spent some time reading your posts about cloth diapering...we also do cloth, but only about 75% of the time. I typically use a disposable each morning when I am running around all over town because my son, Ev, usually poops then ;) And then we use them at night because we just had too many leaks!
Anyway, thanks so much for linking up at Thrifty Thursday, I love having you! :)
Katie
Thanks Katie. Though I obviously can't take credit for the idea. Not sure what I would do with my little ones without the internet and getting ideas from other amazingly talented women.
ReplyDeleteI will have to participate in a busy bag swap. It is such a great idea I just haven't done it yet. This is a great post. I love this activity and would love it if you would link up to my fun frugal friday linky party at www.funfrugalmommy.blogspot.com Have a great day.
ReplyDeleteThanks. I will. And busy bag swaps have been a lot of fun. Though, most of the moms would say that what seemed like an easy project, ended up being more time consuming than they expected. :)
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