Felt Car Mat

Felt Car Travel Mat

Materials:

Green Felt

Black Felt

Other Felt (for houses, signs, etc)

Yellow Thread (for roads and edges)

Fabric Backing

Toy Cars

Cut felt roads roughly the width of the toy cars.  I hack-sawed my way through by cutting many different lengths and then moving around to design a road.  My nephew LOVES to "park" his cars, so I added a little parking lot, too!  Since I had some spare felt scraps, I used it to make extras: pond, bushes, houses, signs, etc. 

Cut a piece of fabric the width (plus a 1/4'' to fold underneath to hem).  My measuring is a mess, but I played with the fabric enough so that it folds over for the cars to park there.  Then sew the fabric to "park" the cars into 1/3 slots.  Fold play mat into thirds.

Alas, it's still an unfinished project.  The embroidery took a while, so now it's time to set up the sewing machine and get it ready to gift away!