With no need for another neighborhood type space, I instead focused on including a large sandy beach, an ocean with a boat dock/fishing pier, and a pier for shops or a carnival to come through town. The Life in Stepping Stones Cityscape Play Rug is now available in my Etsy Shop.Īfter creating this design for my son, I started to feel really inspired! Soon enough, I came up with two more rug concepts: a beach retreat and a snowy mountain escape.įor the beach retreat, I was inspired by the Santa Monica Pier. After all, the racers should have somewhere to park before the big race! The visitors can just park along the street like we all do in the city! After all, what Playmobil toys don’t enjoy going to a Hot Wheel race for an evening out? For this rug, I decided to have a few Hot Wheel parking spaces available at the arena. No city is complete without a sports field or arena, so for this play rug map, I decided to add a football track with a running track that could also be used as a Hot Wheel race track.
I first measured out some different Playmobil buildings, including the hospital, police station, school, and more, that way whichever toys he got in the future would fit! The size of Playmobil objects has proven to be a great guide to use for these rugs, as everything else from other brands like Lego is pretty much ensured to fit nicely too.Ī dinosaur attack at the race track causes the race to abruptly end when one of the visitor’s gets eaten! I wanted to make sure that a city rug wasn’t just a bland slab of gray concrete, and I wanted to ensure it was different enough from his first play rug, and that he’d be able to use them together! The Life in Stepping Stones Small Town Play Rug is now available in my Etsy Shop.Īfter a few months went by, my son started asking for another one – a city that his toys could go to! Not only was I ecstatic to see how much fun he had with it, but I also noticed his toys began to congregate only around his play rug instead of all over the room and house (HUGE BONUS POINTS for Mommy and Daddy, am I right?). When I first gave this to my son, he was thrilled to head upstairs and set it up straight away as a town! Out came his Playmobil Modern House and playground, the PJ Masks headquarters, and the Paw Patrol gang ready to help some poor Legos in trouble. I included two parking spaces, because my son loves nothing more than to drive his toys somewhere and have them park like Mommy and Daddy do in real life! An affiliate link means I may earn advertising/referral fees if you a make a purchase through my link, without any extra cost to you. It helps to keep this blog afloat! Thank you for your support.įor this first rug, I wanted a landscape that could be used for any basic play, from sidewalks and roads surrounded by luscious green grass, to a sandy playground with a lake to swim or sail on. They are just two inches shy of fitting a Barbie car, so I suspect that making some other designs with a slightly wider road may be in my future! I soon discovered these roads also perfectly fit my daughter’s Little People cars and trains, and through research, found they also fit Calico Critter cars. I designed the roads to be 5” wide, specifically to fit all of my son’s toy cars, whether it was Lego, Playmobil, PJ Masks, Paw Patrol, or Hot Wheel/Matchbox. The first play rug I created was what I always envisioned wanting for my own toys as a child: a small town neighborhood landscape that I could build my own world around. The roads are way too narrow, it’s covered in 2D buildings and cars that, in my opinion, hinder creative play, and not to mention, they are so thin that they provide zero padding to the floor and they move all over the place when you so much as move an inch.Ībout a year ago, I decided it was time to design a rug that my kids could actually use during their playtime! I don’t know about you, but I absolutely despise the average, run of the mill, play rugs sold in stores for kids bedrooms and playrooms.
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