What are the Places in Your Neighborhood?

Create a Town

YAY! YAY! YAY! YAY!

• Does it offer an educational experience? Yes
• What does it teach? Urban planning (ok, this might be over reaching)
• Is it age (i.e., 2 - 3 year old) appropriate? Yes

What You’ll Need:

• Coloring and construction paper
• Tape
• Scissors
• Washable markers
• Toy cars

Adult Prep Work:

1. Cut pieces of paper to create roads in a town
2. Tape them together on a table (I just taped them to our wood floors) so you create the basic outline for your town
3. Cut square pieces of construction paper (I used different colors to make each section unique) and place them around your town
4. Place some toy cars on the road

What Your Child Will Do:

1. Talk with you about what makes up a town
2. Color the construction paper to match the different places (e.g., school, housing development, church, grocery store, fire station)
3. Play with and color their town (just let their imagination run wild)

We saw this on an episode of "Curious George" and sort of made it our own. It was really fun to talk with him about what makes up a town. At first he wasn't that into it, and I thought this was going to be a total dud. But once we started talking about the different places we go, he had a lot of fun with it. And he loved coloring the road and driving his cars through his town.