Homemade Toy Town

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Homemade Toy Town By Deborah Shelton

With a few items found around the house, and a little
imagination, you can make your very own toy town. Once your town
is built, fill it with your favorite dolls and toy cars.

1. Yarn: Use yarn to outline streets for toy cars. Roads can be
as straight or as winding as you'd like.

2. Pinecones: "Plant" these trees along the edges of a street or
in a park area.

3. Cardboard Tubes: Form toll bridges and tunnels with these
easy-to-find tubes.

4. Tin Foil: Create lakes and rivers with flat pieces of tin
foil.

5. Cardboard Boxes: Make buildings such as schools, banks and
churches from small cardboard boxes. 

6. Magazine Cut-Outs: Glue pictures from magazines onto small
cardboard boxes to represent the type of buildings in the town.
For example, glue a picture of a store or school onto a box.

7. Thread Spools: Set these in a park area, to use as tables. 

8. Cotton Balls: Turn your town into a winter wonderland with
fluffy puffs of cotton.

9. Popsicle Sticks: Great materials for building fences and
bridges.

10. Kitchen Scale: Bring into play a small kitchen scale to use
as a weigh station for the cars.