4-20-09 Garbage Truck and Burlington's WOW

(posted 8/20/09) We went to an OUTSTANDING event in Burlington, hosted by the Alamance Mommies group (sister site to my near and dear Triad Mommies) - Wheels of Wonder. They had every type of vehicle there that you could possibly think of - construction, delivery, emergency, limos, helicopters, army, tumblebus, monster trucks, go carts, etc. etc. etc. The kids were allowed to climb in/on/around all the vehicles and most of them would allow them to honk horns, press buttons, etc. Let me tell you, this was RIGHT UP Ryan's alley - if it has wheels, he is ALL ABOUT IT. I won't post all the pictures here - but I'll put them in a slide show you can click to get to (or see the right hand side of the blog for link).







Anyway, their handout was a coloring sheet of a truck that Ryan INSISTED was a garbage truck. Lately, he has grilled me for info about garbage trucks. They run two to three days a week here in our neighborhood for various things and when Ryan hears them, he INSISTS on going outside to watch. The. Whole. Production. Great... Anyway, so Alamance Mommies Wheels of Wonder prompted even more discussions of garbage trucks.

We colored a few coloring sheets, read a few books (a few of the favorites were Smash! Mash! Crash!, I Stink and Cars and Trucks) and then created our own garbage truck (original idea - No Time For Flashcards). A great way to work with the concept that you can put shapes together and make anything you want. Oh, and the q-tip painting was fun too (you can't see it, but he colored the wheels with a few markers also). Later, I realized I should not have had Ryan glue the back of the truck on, but to use something so it would pivot (like a brad). Oh well, maybe the next garbage truck we create...