A Day at the Races, Turtle Races and Other Fun Paper Toys

These photos were taken on a really busy and playful day where we made all sorts of papery things that we printed from www.thetoymaker.com.  . We made and played with paper people , a.k.a. paper dolls, (both boys and girls,) which we dressed in their fancy historical costumes... dogs in a dog show, (which had a wide variety of dog breeds and the kids took turns being the various dogs, doing dogs tricks and distributing prizes!

We made a paper rabbit and a frog...




and some fun animal finger puppets which did a very nice puppet show,


and best of all, we made turtles!

I am not sure "why" exactly, but the turtles were an absolute hit! Before I knew knew it, everyone getting into the action, coloring one, or two, or three turtle to call their own!  . When we ran out of printed ones we began tracing the ones we had made and making our own!

Even the residetnt teenager could not resist and got into the action.







Of course,
it had to be
labeled

"TOP SECRET."

But  with permission, I snuck a peek.









Everyone was having fun together and was in the mood for playing with, cutting out and coloring... and racing ...turtles.  It was a glorious day of good, old-fashioned, family fun!


When we were done coloring the turtles, Papa set up the turtle race course, and before long they were all off and running!


Did I say running?  I really mean... RUNNING.



This was the really fun part....

You see, no one but Papa and I really knew what the race would be like and even we were a bit surprised to see it in action.  It was great!  The kids had tied a string to their own turtles and were just pulling them around the room on the floor, ready to race! They envisioned that they would be pulling their turtle, pushing it, maybe even running with it to be in the "Turtle Race" that they were preparing for.  Finally, the race was on and they lined up, following our directions.  Ready to have a go at it.

You can only perhaps imagine their surprise when they were told to simply jiggle the string in their hands to make the turtles run all the way to the chairs and over the finish line!  And boy,  was it a surprise to us all to actually see them all go!

Here they are at the start line... on their marks and ready to go!

The paper turtles will be racing to those chairs.

 "ON your shell,

        get ready...

                      GO!"

And
they
are
off!


and running!

Hooray for Turtle Day!

You can find these neat printables and more at www.thetoymaker.com.