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This Super Fun DIY Parent-Child Activity Only Takes 3 Hours of Preparation

HOW MUCH DO YOU LOVE YOUR CHILDREN?

4 min readJan 3, 2025

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The image shows a handmade roadway map created using blue tape on a white surface, with toy trees and a small green toy car placed on the map. The road has twists and turns, and green arrows are drawn to indicate directions. On the right side of the image, the text reads, “HOW MUCH DO YOU LOVE YOUR CHILDREN?”
Image from author, collaged in ; Of course I did this.

Activity

Car Maze Navigated by Opposing Magnets

<YAY!>

Materials

  • Large Paper
  • Painters Tape
  • Toy Car
  • Magnet
  • Sense of Parenting Inadequacy that Plagues You Wherever You Go

<THIS WILL MAKE EVERYTHING BETTER!!!!!>

Steps

Locate painter’s tape.

Is it painter’s tape as in a singular painter or painters’ tape as in all painters who have tape? Or is it just —
You know what?
It doesn’t matter. Don’t get derailed this early in the process. You are doing a thing. You are doing one of the things that regular parents do with their kids. This is a test of your Parenting Wherewithal, your Parental Innovation, your Worthiness to Have a Child.

Don’t overthink it.

You can find Painters Tape. You can do that. You know what that is.

Kate Brennan
Kate Brennan

Written by Kate Brennan

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