{EASY} Fabric Roads

John John loves playing with his cars, trucks, and trains. It is so interesting how he just gravitates towards them even though he has tons of other toys to play with. He is all boy for sure!

So, I made a set of these fabric roads from old jeans in my fabric stash.


I saw someone post about making fabric roads for her son and I liked the idea of fabric roads for a couple reasons:

1. John wouldn't have to snap pieces together as he would have to if we had a 'real' set of roads or railroad tracks.
2. It is pretty easy to store compared to having a huge box of bulky pieces.
3. It is portable- we could take one or two pieces with us if we need to entertain him somewhere like a restaraunt or at a doctor's office.

So, I figured I could make the roads pretty easily myself without having to sew anything. Using a pair of old jeans (my mom gave me a ton of my dads old jeans so I have quite the stash of denim!), I cut out some roads that were about 6 inches wide. I didn't hem the edges because I was being lazy, but you could zig zag stitch along all the edges to help keep the fraying at a minimum. I guess I could have also used Fray Check on the edges but so far the fraying hasn't been too annoying. I used yellow paint to quickly make the stripes in the middle of the streets. Aaaaannnnnnddddd, that is it!

With one pair of jeans I was able to make two long roads, two shorter roads, two curved roads, and a four way intersection piece.



So as John was playing with his cars and these fun new roads, I was thinking to myself I could make a little bag or something to store the pieces all nice and neat. Then I realized I already had a nice pocket ready to be used!



Perfect and cute!

And even after I made John his new 'toy', look where he was still playing with his cars. :)





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