Fill the Dump Truck
We have a fleet of dump trucks, school buses and garbage trucks and they get played with every-single-day. It really doesn’t matter what toy is already out, the trucks and buses are always involved in the game.
Well, if I’ve said it once I’ve said it a million times, the craft supply that keeps on giving are pompoms, or puff balls as we so lovingly call them. Add some puff balls into an activity that ALSO involves a dump truck and this turned out to be something that both kids played with for an hour!
There aren’t too many supplies, but there are a few that you many not have handy laying around your house, the good news though is there are plenty of substitutions for them.
The backbone of this activity is the dump truck, I drew and colored it in on one of the 100s of pieces of cardboard we have in our basement. From there I created two different projects in one. The first, color matching. The second, fill the dump truck.
For the first activity you’ll need some markers to make dots in the bed of the truck. We have sheets and sheets of dot stickers I bought on Amazon so we matched the stickers with the colors in the truck. If you don’t have these stickers just make your own, grab a paper towel and tear off some pieces, color them in, put some tape on the back and ta-da DIY dot stickers.
For the second activity you’ll need some scissors to cut out the bed of the truck, pompoms & sticky paper. Once you cut the bed out you can throw it away. Get your contact paper, or just regular sticky tape and stick it to the back of the cardboard, sticky side out so the puff balls will stick. Pour the pompoms into a bucket and have them fill in the (now sticky) dump truck bed!
