Masking Tape Roads

It's been drizzly, foggy, and plain old blah around here lately so we needed a fun activity to perk up the day. Some snow would be nice as well, but it's looking like there's a good chance we're going to have a brown Christmas this year which makes me sad. Don't get me wrong, I'll be thankful for the shorter snow season come March, but right now, it just doesn't feel quite like Christmas without a blanket of pretty snow covering everything outside. But I digress...

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I found this picture on Pinterest awhile back and thought it would be fun to try out today. I had the boys go around and collect their cars, trucks, and motorcycles earlier in the day and then laid out the masking tape roads all over the ground and some furniture.

The kids thought it was awesome to have roads everywhere! There were several mentions of "how cool" this was. The older two set up a couple of buildings and grabbed some action figures and had a police/robber scene going on for awhile, until a wild saber tooth tiger invaded the village and that became the new focus.

Notice my 3 year old pouting in the bottom left corner of the picture above. He was acting particularly "three'ish" today, that's the nicest way I can think of putting it, and was just a bundle of fun (heavy sarcasm) to deal with. He had fun for the first few minutes but then everything was "MINE!" or "NOT YOURS!" or just plain old "NO!!"

This activity was a lot of fun, and would have been more so, had my kids not all kind of been in moods today. I think the dreary weather is affecting all of us. It allowed me about 30 minutes of happy play (3 year old aside) until the older two started bickering over what each character should say or do, how the story line should go, etc. I finally threw in the towel, popped some popcorn, and put in a movie. Some days you just need to do that.