Judah's Car Mat - Christmas Gift

I am so excited about this Car Mat for Judah.

I have been working on it for a couple of months now, but it's been going a lot quicker since I got my sewing machine!! It is possible to make this if you don't have a machine - it'll just take a long time to hand stitch everything.

I wanted to make him a car mat with lots of different scenes that he could rearrange the order of everything depending on his creative mood.

I found bags of red, white, black and green felt at the Dollar Store - $1 for 10 or 12 pieces. Each piece is about 5x7. On top of 4 bags of that felt I picked up a few other pieces at a craft store and used some scraps I had on hand. Some of the scenes still need a few details, but here they are up close:

 

Starting with the top scene:

A city (with a clothes line between two apartment buildings)

Fishing pond, apple tree, garden

Christmas tree, sled, snowman

Parking lot (the black line will be a light post, just need to add the button light!)

 

From left to right:

Rain clouds and puddles

Train station and train tracks

Sun, telephone pole with bird, stop sign

 

From left to right:

Tent, snake

Forest

Fence, barn

I will probably end up adding on to this if he plays with it as much as I am hoping he will. He has seen me working on it, and at the beginning I let him test it out just to see if he would play with it, and he totally loved it! I think it would be fun to let family and friends design a scene for him too.