How to Make a Paper Bag Road for Preschoolers

Preschoolers want to learn and play at the same time. Make a paper bag road and you can teach social skills by playing cars on the road. You can also teach your preschoolers fine motor skills by holding the play cars in their hands and moving them around. Follow these steps.

Instructions

Difficulty: Easy

Things You’ll Need:

• Paper bag or butcher paper
• Markers or crayons
• Scissors
• Empty oatmeal boxes
• Empty cereal boxes

1. Acquire a paper bag from a grocery store or use a 3 by 4 feet of butcher paper.
2. Use markers to draw the road on the paper. Be creative in designing the road. It can be straight in some sections and curved in others.
3. Add parking spaces by using markers and trees on the paper bag road.
4. Empty oatmeal boxes and cereal boxes can be used to create buildings and tunnels to line or cross the road.
5. Supplement your paper bag road with blocks to make additional buildings.
6. Add more paper bag roads to create one vast system.

Tips & Warnings

• Observe your child while playing to see what skills they have mastered and which ones need more practice.
• This activity can be done on a gradual basis. Make the paper bag road, add then add the empty boxes, trees, railroad tracks,clouds and other props.
• Markers and scissors should be used with supervision.