In January our plan was to survive this by just bringing Miles along and he was only coming because he's still nursing. But after a few heartfelt requests from family members we agreed to bring Ethan and Isaac along as well. Yes I know, I probably should be committed to an insane asylum for thinking we can handle this. It'll make for a great blog though. See? I'm trying to be positive.
In planning for the many non-child friendly events as well as the very MANY and very LONG plane flights, I saw someone's blog where they had created a little playmat with one road and little sleeves for the cars to fit in. Then you could take the whole thing, roll it up with the cars inside and have a neat little complete plaything. I decided to take it a step further and add houses, driveways, a gas station, and even a little park. I just used felt so nothing frays and it was actually pretty fast and easy. The boys LOVED it so I made a second one so they don't have to share. Normally I encourage sharing but I'm planning to just survive this trip so forget that.
Both Ethan and Isaac are currently obsessed with action figures of any kind. I got a pack of army men from a dollar store and they literally played with them for 3 days straight. Isaac is hilarious making them scream in pain and talk to each other.
Michaels craft store has little tubes of all sorts of figures so I grabbed a bunch and then decided to make playmats for them to use with them. First I made little bags to keep all their figures in and then started in on the actual mats.
Here's the pirate mat complete with the little guys.
Both the car mat and the pirate mat seemed logically best done in 2-D. I was a little more stumped on the knights and dragons. In the end I made mountains with "caves" for the dragons and a 3 sided castle that mostly stays up. Ethan's favorite part is the drawbridge that does with a little luck stay up as well as lie flat.
Just more views (these are really just included for Kristina's benefit).
Again I found cute fabrics for the backs of them. And I used another fun stitch to make the trees. My boys won't be impressed but I am. And I don't really care if they're impressed as long as they spend HOURS playing with them on the airplane.
4 comments:
Sarah, You are amazing! And inspiring..but I still don't think I could pull those off! :) Maybe if I try hard I could try to make one or two for our trip this summer...not that we'll be on the plane quite as long as you. Good luck!
Those look really fun!!. What is the website you got your ideas's from, did they have any princess playmats. If I get adventureous I may try.!!
You're amazing! I felt so proud to see my name on your post:) I'm going to try and make them... try being the key word.
You are amazing!! Seriously. Very cool.
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