I had a little brain storming session with my Dad while he was here and we came up with the design using a few random wood scraps we already had laying around here along with a few items from the hardware store.
I started with a long rectangular piece of wood that we already had, and painted it black.
Then I painted the smaller, skinny strips red and cut them to the right length using a hand saw.
I used a scrap piece of wood to determine the width of each lane and started nailing them down, from the centre out.
I was going to pre-drill some holes in the small strips of wood to prevent them from splitting, but found these tiny pin nails worked fine without pre-drilling.
I measured the height that I wanted one end of the track to sit at and got Max to cut another piece of scrap wood to the right size.
We attached the smaller piece of wood to one end of the track with two hinges so that we could fold it flat for easy storage. I had planned on adding some numbers to the lanes but got busy and forgot. Oops.
I was happy with the end product and know that Lachlan will have a great time using it at his party and all summer long!
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