what can we do with toy cars?

Toy cars are all the rage here at the moment.  Here are some ideas for play with toy cars …

• drive them down ramps or roll them down a slide.  Put something at the end of the ramp to knock over.  Take ramps a step further and try and create car jumps. 

 

• line them up.
• create roads or a racetrack.  We usually use tape on the floor, but you could draw chalk roads outside or you can draw on cardboard like my son did here.  And for a really big project you could map your neighbourhood.  And I am keen to try this zigzag track.
• paint with toy cars.  Combine painting and rolling down a ramp (you could put a long paper down a ramp for a fun painting idea).
• create a parking garage out of cardboard 
• make a toy petrol pump.
• race them.  Which ones go the furthest? You can even race them down ramps.
• use the cars as game pieces in a board game car race (and practise number skills too)