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I made my grandson a rocking horse for his first birthday, but getting it to him was so expensive that I haven’t made him anything else. He is now 2 1/2 and he LOVES cars and trains so I found this plan for this train. I am going to visit my daughter in a couple weeks when she gives birth to my second grandson and we are celebrating a late Christmas then. This will be my gift for Jordan. It turned out “okay”, but I don’t think he will notice the flaws. There is a Disney movie that has cars in it and he loves them, my daughter bought all the cars for him and he is learning to say all of the names, so being the innovative grandma that I am, I decided to name all the train cars…you can’t see it in the picture, but I named them all after his two grandmas and his two aunts so he will learn how to say all of our names!! I am a smart one!
-- robbi-Yadahooty!
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scrappy
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posted 309 days ago
Very cool! The colors will realy get his attention. I have 7 grand kids (8yrs to 6 mo old) with another due within a couple of weeks so , projects like this are getting more common.
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lew
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posted 309 days ago
Sweet!!
Love the colors!
Dennis Zongker
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posted 309 days ago
Way to go Robbi! I bet he will have a lot of fun.
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Al Navas
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posted 309 days ago
Robbi,
The train is terrific! And I love the fact that each car has a loved one’s name on it – I must remember to do something similar for each of our six granddaughters ;-)
-- Al Navas, St Joseph, MO, http://sandal-woodsblog.com
robdew
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posted 308 days ago
I’ve seen various plans for train toys but I don’t recognize this one. Do you remember where you got it?
motthunter
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posted 308 days ago
how cool. good job
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USCJeff
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posted 308 days ago
Very cool. Did something similar for my 2 year old for holidays that I posted a month ago. It was a bit more basic in design. I’m sure it wlil be well received.
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Allison
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posted 308 days ago
Awesome. My grandson just celebrated his 2nd birthday and it was a train theme. He is just fascinated with them. I too am. I have just loved trains all my life. What a cute gift and like you said very smart way to do a little teaching with it!
Congratulations on your up and coming newest family member.
Grandparenting ROCKS!
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robbi
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posted 308 days ago
Thanks everyone for your nice comments. I bought the plan at “Toys for Joys” I believe it was called. I changed it a little, the 3rd car was supposed to be…shoot, I can’t remember what they called it, but it was just the car with a slanted piece of wood on it. Jordan loves to “put things in” things so I made it a little carrying car, he can put his little cars in it. Thanks again for the nice comments.
-- robbi-Yadahooty!
TomK
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posted 308 days ago
Great colors! And you don’t have to worry about the source of the paint and parts. I love home made toys and this one will be around a lot longer than the store bought plastic ones.
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