For a little novelty with your preschooler’s car play, grab an old shower curtain or table cloth or any other plastic sheet, and spread it it out in the yard.  Get on the floor with your child and use colored marker pens to create a “city. ” Make roads with pens, buildings with empty cartons, and use empty toilet paper tubes as tunnels.

For more messy fun, use coffee grounds or colored rice to make roads.  Remember to draw, or make railway tracks and an airport too.  She’ll love sharing her ideas for the “city”, and you get some time off while she plays with her make believe city!