Printable Roads for Awesome Imaginative Play.
These free printable roads are a super fun addition to your kids car play.
What is about cars that kids love?
All of my kids loved playing with cars when they were little, and even now they are getting bigger they still love getting the cars and blocks out and building a city. And the toddler that we look after once a week asks to get the cars out every single time. All he wants to do is drive vehicles over every available surface, crash them into each other, and build ‘sheds’ for them to live in.
There is just something awesome about toy cars.
We have a lovely set of wooden roads that match our train set, but we just don’t have enough of them. The road stops too soon and there is not enough corners or crossroads. We needed to get some more, so I made some printable roads to add to the collection
All we need to do is print them.
Free Printable Roads for Imaginative Play
We printed out two sets of roads to begin with so that we’d have enough to make a small town. Then we just printed out extras of each road shape when we needed to make our road turn a certain way, or reach a little further.
We added trees, wooden blocks, wooden road signs and of course some cars. Then our roads quickly became a town with a parking lot, a tunnel and, of course, a shed!
You could also add animals, people figurines, natural materials such as rocks and leaves, different types of construction sets and all kinds of fun and interesting loose parts. Your roads could become part of a city, or even the runway of an airport!
Make some Printable Roads
You can print them onto regular printer paper, or onto some card stock. They do take a lot of ink to print, but if you laminate them they should last for a long time.
Because we were in a hurry to play with them, I just printed them on plain paper, cut them out and we got busy playing. They sat quite flat on the floor, but we also used a little tape to keep them in place when they wouldn’t stay still.
Later I laminated three sets of roads, so they would last longer and be easier for little hands to manage. Hopefully they will withstand lots and lots of car play!
You can download the printable roads here.
This printable is an A4 sized pdf file, you will need a pdf reader such as adobe acrobat to open it. If you are printing on US ‘letter sized’ paper be sure to select ‘fit’ or ‘shrink to fit’ from your printer options.
Please remember that the printables at picklebums.com are for personal use only, you may not sell, share, or link directly to these files.
We’d love to see how you play with the printable roads.
If you have fun playing with our printable roads we’d love to see some pictures! Tag me on instagram (@picklebums) or share a photo on our facebook page.
Thanks to the TAC we have some brand new free printable road signs and accessories that match these free printable roads and compliment lots of road safety learning. You can find great tips for helping kids learn about road safety and download the free printable road signs set here.
Aarya is going to LOVE this. THANK YOU! I am going to print these right away :)
They are very wonderfully cool. I know a little man here who would love them too :) … shame I have a dodgy printer though…might need to twoddle over to mum’s house ;)
Fun, fun, fun! I shall need more ink though. haha. Shared on fb :)
Great printables as always Kate and LOVE-ing the dolls, blocks, trees you have used with them. I’ve been working on some trees that actually look quite similar… Can you tell me where the dolls came from in the 2nd photo? They’re divine!
Off to share this x
My Dad made the trees, the turned blocks and the people. I may have a few sets for sale soon – if I can get my act together!
What a great idea! My son would love these too! He also likes to build “sheds” for his trucks! LOL! How did you keep the paper from moving around? I see that as a frustrating problem for my son. tape?
We just used blocks to hold down the roads at first, but after I laminated the pieces they lay much flatter and stay put, any that were a problem we added a bit of blue tack to :)
Great idea I love it. But where I can buy the sign roads, the tunnels & the trees.
The road signs came from windmill toys – https://www.windmill.net.au/
The tunnels are part of our rainbow, and water element sets that we got from Entropy – http://www.entropy.com.au/grimm-s-rainbow-elements-stacker-small
And the trees and other blocks my Dad made – I may have some available for sale in the future.
Could hardly believe my eyes when I saw this today–been working on finding just the right “roads” for several days. These are definitely the best! I subscribed to your blog for ideas to use in packing shoeboxes for Operation Christmas Child. I don’t sew but was thinking of making a roll up using “heat and bond” but I think your roads will fit in the shoeboxes just fine and will give the child many more options that the small fabric one I would be able to fit in. Again thank you so much!! I don’t believe in coincidences, I believe in “God-incidences and this is certainly one!
So lovely to think our roads will be off to brighten Christmas for someone. :)
Going to add these to my work kit fantastic thanks
so cool. Much better than the ones i drew for my son a few weeks ago for an activity we did. Pinning this so we can use them in the future:-)
Hi Kate – did you print the black or just white on black paper?
Thanks for sharing
Louise
curious of this as well – as that seems like i’ll need a ton of black ink to print this
These are fantastic Kate…what a generous printable…my girls will love them once laminated i think. All the props are so sweet too, your Dad is so clever! Shall share and pin x
Fantastic! I have a feeling all my kids will get a kick out of these, 3, 6 & 11 year olds. :) I don’t have a printer, but will be downloading and sending them to work for the DH to print (I took a redundancy from my day job last week, so no longer have a printer on call for of my own.)
I foresee lots of school holiday fun!
Thank you! Kept 2 children very happy on a rainy day. :)
Kate these are brilliant! R is going to love them – we have cabin fever from all this rain so we needed something like this, thanks! Pinned and shared on my FB wall too.
These are so great! Not only will my car-loving daughter love these, but we also have a lot of birthday parties coming up for babies and young toddlers. These roads with a few cars would be a very sweet and not-too-expensive gift! :)
this is such a great idea my son will love it .
my printers not working but l have a white pen /white paint and some black paper so l will try that .
These are fabulous, Kate! My son was always obsessed with vehicles, and he would have LOVED these when he was little. Thanks so much for sharing your printable!
Loving the print out road! My son loves it, we’ve stuck them down on card and added small world animals, cars! Love it thank you..
quelle bonne idée ! merci pour le partage… j’ai créé un lien ici : http://pinterest.com/lemondedis/jeux-pour-les-ptits-chats-freebies/
This is such an awesome idea!
Oh wow- these are fantastic! What a great idea. I would love to link to these if you didn’t mind.
More than happy for you to share an image with a link back Rachel. Send me an email if you need anything else :)