We have over the past couple of years accumulated nice set of thomas/brio tracks, trains and accessories which my kids love to play with. We have however not yet purchase a train table. You see I am not sure if I am fully sold on the train table idea.
I love how the tables in some bookstores are neatly displayed and the child can walk around and play, but there is something extraordinary when you walk into a room and your 2 year old has set his own train without any of your help.
Yes he has seen me do it. Yes his daddy is an architect which may count for something.
This is not the first time he has set one up and each time it looks different and more intricate than I ever made.
He makes it work, I follow the directions on the box to make sure the loop goes through the bridge I do actually count 6 pieces each time.
He gets creative and does not mind broken tracks and unfinished rails.
Sometimes his sister helps, sometimes she just enjoys the rails. Anyway you look at it this is where the creativity shines,this is when you child learns how to fit the pieces together to create an entire piece, different each time. Even though it is nice to have the trains confided into one small area please do me a favor and spread it out once, just for me. Then you can decide how to use or not use your train table. Personally I am still fully undecided.
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Wow! That’s a great setup they’ve got there. Stuff like this was my favorite activity when I was young, but try as I might, I can’t get my daughter interested in trains/tracks. Maybe she’ll grow into them. I hope so because I’ve been picking up pieces here and there at garage sales and I don’t want to play by myself!
Those tracks are so cute! Seems like they have a blast!
So glad I popped by from the Girl Creative Follow me Friday!