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A removable-tape road town

Turn a tabletop into a tiny neighborhood, complete with a library, park and silly street names.

35 min1–5 makersAges 3+ with supervision4 illustrated steps ↓
A cardboard tabletop town with paper-tape roads, buildings, a park and toy vehicles.
One way your finished project could look.

A LITTLE INSPIRATION

See it. Make it.
Make it yours.

Start with this finished example, then follow the four illustrated steps below. Choose the colors and details that feel like you.

Gather your supplies ↓Follow the steps ↓

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Let’s make it.

  1. A flat cardboard base with a simple road-loop plan.

    Plan the route

    Flatten a cardboard box to protect your working surface. Plan a simple loop road before adding intersections.

  2. Short paper-tape strips forming roads on cardboard, with open spaces for a park and buildings.

    Lay the roads

    Lay short tape strips for roads, leaving room for a park and three buildings.

  3. Drawn or folded-paper buildings beside the tape roads on the cardboard base.

    Build your neighborhood

    Draw buildings directly on the cardboard or fold paper into simple standing shapes. Name the streets together.

  4. A toy vehicle making a delivery through the completed cardboard town.

    Take a helpful trip

    Invent a helpful mission: deliver a library book, visit a friend or take supplies to the community garden.

A little help: Use cardboard as the base rather than taping delicate floors. Keep small toy parts away from children who mouth objects.

KEEP THE GOOD TIME GOING

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