Friday, June 26, 2009

Tabletop Disaster!

Last Sunday night there was a huge disaster at the Jukes home!
It is all my Dads fault and the boys loved every minute of it!
So, to explain:
At work my Dad has a training set of toy cars/trucks/emergency response vehicles/helicopters/haz mat/buses, etc, that he uses to illustrate emergency response scenarios and train fire personnel. He brought it home for Austin to see it and we ended up making a tabletop disaster!
The first step was to lay down butcher paper over the table and create a city and rural area. My dad laid out the city roads and I laid out the country roads. Then we started in on drawing in all the buildings, schools, parks, etc. Austin drew a great golf course!Once everything was drawn on we started to add the 3-D objects and this is were it got really fun! The whole family was involved and there was all sorts of mayhem and disasters!
The boys got to stay up super late for them. But they were having so much fun and behaving so well that it was worth it!
Thanks Dad for such a fun evening!

1 comment:

Oma and Papa said...

That was a fun activity. We will have to do it again. I am sure Austin will remind us next time you are up. Made for some fun memories.