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How do you play with cars and trains?

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Italiangreyhound · 15/05/2014 22:39

Silly questions, I know, but I don't know how to!!

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gallicgirl · 15/05/2014 22:46

You pretend to make journeys. Move the cars around and make silly noises. Pretend to crash into obstacles.

Did you not play wirh cars as a child?

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Lilka · 15/05/2014 22:47

Haha! We have wooden train track and one of those car mats (like this but different design)

DD2 likes the train track as well!

Um...DS and I take a car each and we start at different points on the mat and invent a story. He decides what's going on mostly and I chip in my suggestions. The cars talk to each other. My car is the Police maybe and his car is a burglar and I chase him around the mat mock shouting about how he's going to prison and going 'nee-nah-nee-nah' Grin

You just sort of...move the objects around a specified path while thinking of weird things for them to do!

The three of us reenacted bits of 'Thomas and the Magic Railroad' once on the track. That was memorable... Hmm Grin

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Suddenlystronger · 15/05/2014 22:49

We have to set jobs. So, thomas needs to collect the sick cow from the farmer and take him to the vet remembering to get some money out from the post office on the way! This helps with the inane hours of make believe! hth

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Suddenlystronger · 15/05/2014 22:50

ah cross post - exactly that type of thing!

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Lilka · 15/05/2014 22:50

ps. Avoid that film. Like the plague. Seriously, no matter how much your son like Thomas, you need to look after yourself too, and not subject your poor mind to that train wreck of a movie*

ooh yes, car crashes. We end up having lots of those. Or the Police car just rams the burglar into a wall multiple times.



*I know, I know, sorry

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KoalaFace · 15/05/2014 22:52

With DS (who is 3) I follow his lead. Sometimes he wants to make a journey (sound effects, crashes, breakdowns, songs), sometimes he wants to line up his cars according to colour, size, type... and sometimes he wants to play "car school" where a big "teacher" car teaches all the smaller cars how to drive fast and do fancy manoeuvres. Grin

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Italiangreyhound · 15/05/2014 22:52

gallicgirl can't think I ever did! Thanks, those ideas are great.

Lilka love it, I will attempt this!

Suddenlystronger hooray, have got that dvd, for Ds so will watch it and then incorporate it into our play.

Wheels don't move me - ironically! But i will try.

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Lillyludge · 16/05/2014 06:31

As the others have said, let him lead you. I still play cars and trains with DS (6), though not so much now he's a bit older...

He used to like reenacting stories with them, for example pretending that that there is a car 'family' that go through the usual family experiences (going shopping, on holiday, looking after pets).

It can be actually be a quite useful type of play to introduce ideas or themes that you want him to think about. A few years ago I used toys like this to help DS understand that his dad and I were going to live in different houses...and then a while later to introduce the concept of adoption!

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disneygirl10 · 16/05/2014 09:20

Both dd and ds loved making car parks and traffic jams! dd also liked to organise them into groups ds likes crashing them and driving them around people's legs and tummiesSmile

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Mybellyisaneasteregg · 16/05/2014 09:32

You also buy blocks and animals and street type accessories and then build little houses and parks and farms etc

If you ever have a large cardboard box, flatten it out and then draw roads and buildings on it to create a road map.

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Buster51 · 16/05/2014 09:35

Similar to all of the above, we have a huge mat and like to organise the police station etc. We'll be one car each/train etc. Just generally making loud car noises etc little one seems to enjoy! Pretending to deliver presents/letters etc too.

Also he likes to tell me what I should be doing in the game, certainly a way to use his bossiness through play! His electric train set I must admit is one for Daddy to build when he is home!

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springlamb · 16/05/2014 09:40

Save all cardboard boxes etc and acquire an Argos catalogue and build your own 'destinations' . Finding and cutting out appropriate pictures and sticking them on the boxes, building tunnels and (once you've practiced a bit) bridges, it all takes up time.

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TheSarcasticFringehead · 16/05/2014 09:43

Cars and trains? Make traffic jams. That's all my DS seemed to do. He made looooong lines of cars, in sets of threes. Sometimes he would make a crash Hmm and others he would make beeping noises and very slowly move them around, usually in a circle, taking hours to complete. Very realistic and very boring, but he loved it. Sometimes he'd shout stuff like 'move!' as if it was a real traffic jam.

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TheSarcasticFringehead · 16/05/2014 09:48

Sometimes he'd play the Crash Game. He had about thirty cars, possibly more, and he would separate them into two and get me to count them up correctly, then he would push them together and see how many were 'alive'/upright.

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kmarie100 · 16/05/2014 10:21

All the above plus we make obstacle courses for the cars with books..make small raise with a couple of book then lay one on top to make a slide. Then use other books to make tunnels. Hope that makes sense! We then can go round the room sliding down and tunnelling through.

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UnderTheNameOfSanders · 16/05/2014 10:33

Italian I feel for you. I've always found the 'imaginative play' stuff hard. I'm much happier building lego!

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Kewcumber · 16/05/2014 11:29

Ha ha ha haaaa!

Becasue what you wish for Italian becuase sometimes you get it!

DS luckily mostly parked cars in giant car parks so no playing necessary on my part. He loved Brio but spent more time setting up the tracks into ever increasing complexity and again outstripped my ability pretty quickly.

Like Sanders, I cultivated LEgo as soon as possible because I like playing Lego

And it doesn't change just morphs - I spent an hour last night playing Scalextric - mini vs star wars fighter pod

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Kewcumber · 16/05/2014 11:29

Be Careful what you wish for...

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TheSarcasticFringehead · 16/05/2014 11:39

I actually enjoyed Thomas and the Magic Railroad. We had a little toy Lady train which DS loved.

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