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What Kid Wouldn’t Love This?

Posted by gabrielleblair on September 2nd, 2010 at 11:00 pm

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I’m flipping out over this play mat! It’s a fun toy. It’s an accurate map. It’s a learning tool. It’s very good-looking. And it’s incredibly cool!

It was a gift for a grandson’s 6th birthday. The (very awesome) Grandma, hand-painted it using these directions. It’s a perfectly detailed map of her grandson’s neighborhood, including his house, surrounding parks, friends’ houses and other favorite hangouts.

With a play mat like this, little vehicles and Lego characters can have fabulous adventures cruising around the neighborhood — while your kids are learning street names and how to read a map at the same time. You can see a full photo after the jump.handpaintedplaymat2 768x1024 What Kid Wouldnt Love This?

We were talking play mats at Design Mom earlier this week. If you’re not up for painting your own, you can find some great ready-to-buy options here.

Thanks for the great idea, Erin!

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Some grandma’s are sooo talented. That is an amazing mat.

Kelly

Kelly Stone commented on Sep 03 10 at 10:23 am

It’s so fun to see one of our favorite toys featured on one of my favorite sites! Thanks for the kind mention, Gabrielle!

Erin @ Letter Soup commented on Sep 03 10 at 7:57 pm

That is so fantastic! My boys would kill for that!

Handmade Charlotte commented on Oct 07 10 at 6:27 pm

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