Both kids love playing with cars. When I saw a DIY parking garage complete with ramps made from file folders on Pinterest, I had to make it. The kids even helped out. Now, I'm all about reusing. It just so happens that Husband and I recently cleaned out the filing cabinet and had a bunch of spare file folders that had things written on the tabs. I gathered 4 of those up. The kids helped me cut the tabs off to form straight lines. Next we taped them together accordion style. Now, the directions used this exact phrase and by the time I made this yesterday, my brain couldn't figure that out, so I just used the steps as a guide and set it up how I wanted and then taped. Sunshine helped with the tape, so we used a lot of it. Since Monster actually saw the nice complicated skyline on the website, he wanted a skyline, too. I'm all about simplicity. I didn't cut stuff out like the person did in the original, I just drew a generic looking skyline and colored it with a crayon. Kids were just as happy as if it looked professionally done. After that was done, I took the other folder and cut it in half on the fold. On the original site, she doesn't tell you to cut the tabs off of this folder, but after messing around with it a bit, I did because it just worked better that way. After that, I cut the half of the folder in half again length wise. I drew a dotted line and arrows. I drew the arrows because I know my kids. They would be fighting for which side to drive their cars on if I didn't give them directions. I then taped on the ramps and drew "parking spaces". Honestly, I didn't use the tutorial after the whole accordion style taping directions. I pretty much just winged it and it turned out fine. I mean, it's not a complicated project, which is what I like. I don't know if it was because I had used folders, but they didn't' stand up well on my steps. I taped the top to the wall and the bottom to the floor. We also have a car mat which we put at the bottom of the steps. The kids loved this. Sunshine added some dinosaurs in later in play to guard the cars on the mat. But of course, right? Fun, simple project. The original poster made hers much nicer, but my kids don't care about fancy, they want fun and I want simple. It took all of 5 minutes. The fighting over who got which cars took longer to sort through than making this. Coolest thing is that I can add on. If I want another level, I'll just add a folder. I also thought about making a second to put higher up the stairs so each child can have their own.
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