So Jude mentioned the other day that it would be nice if he had a parking lot on his train table. We boxed the trains away a month or two ago and are now using the train table for matchbox cars.
I decided that I could definitely make a parking lot, but I didn’t want it to be permanent, because with a new little guy on the way, we’ll probably need the table to be a train table again in a few years. The solution was lots of contact paper and some white out rollers. I couldn’t find where anyone else had done this, so here’s what I did:
Here is the train table. It needs to be a parking lot….Step 1: Cover with Grass (green contact paper)
Step 2: Make an initial layout of the roads 
Step 3: Cut out a LOT of contact paper roads 
Step 4: Lay them on the train table and start sticking them down 
Step 5: Take the whiteout and line the roads and parking lots. Check out the parallel parking, diagonal parking, and regular parking. Plus a roundabout for that urban feel 😀 Step 6: Play! 