Handmade Train Track Accessories

You whitethorn commemorate my little boys compulsion with trains.  I made this play mat for him a while ago.

Well he keeps that 'prepare mat' inside a tent in his bedroom where he loves to sit and drive his trains about the lead.  However in the kids play room we have a large train table.

Spell my parents are visiting they wanted to buy him some more pieces to rest on the first track he already had.  Train tracks and accessories are E.X.P.E.N.S.I.V.E though.  Thusly dad and I put our creative heads together and ready-made a hardly a bits a pieces.

And then using a Pringles container, a constructive apple juice feeding bottle, an orange juice carton and a coffee creamer bottleful we put off to figure out.

Initiatory we cut each piece to the size we mandatory, then  put down a couple of coats of paint connected.

Then we cut a piece of provide wood to make an arch for a tunnel, which was pasted inside the orange juice carton.  The reason for this is if you leave the corner rectangular it can set forth to lean or bend out of embodiment very quickly.  The ply Natalie Wood adds special support so the tunnel holds its mold.  Good matter I picked up a little woodcarving tool commence a year ago on clearance … see, I knew IT would come in W. C. Handy unrivaled day.

Before adding finishing touches to each piece.  Including a coating of sealer over the top of each piece, this helps to prevent the paint from chipping, especially on the plastic.

The end effect:

The orange juice carton made a great tunnel, once the plyboard archway was added.  Flynn tin can reach his deal into the other end to pull his trains through and loves that I painted it black inside to make it 'spooky'.

The end of the java cream pitcher bottle was turned into a wads and grass and ladybugs were painted unofficially.

The elastic apple juice nursing bottle was turned into other tunnel complete with graffiti (thanks to the teenager) along the inside.  We just varicolored the inner of the plastic, non the extracurricular.

Lastly, the Pringles cartonful was cut in half and made into 2 cultivate depots for the trains to get going to sleep at the death of their very busy day.

Flynn loves it and in that location is nothing better than free accessories for his most beloved toy.

Oh and I throw to show you one last matter that we added.

One section of the train table has a construction theme.   Thus what better item to pose there than a dinosaur egg boulder painted by Flynn at pre-train last week.  Let's just hope it doesn't hatch 🙂

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