There is nothing better than watching a child learn through play. When I create learning games for kids, I keep this thought in mind. Through the years I’ve found that any game with toy cars is sure to be a hit. Add them to letter and number tracing mats and kids can use the toy cars to trace letters and numbers. They will race their way to letter and numeral formation success. I love using the transportation themed tracing mats for lots of learning and tons of FUN!
In the olden days, I made these mats with construction paper, white crayon, and lots of cutting. Now armed with my trusty clip art and fonts, I can whip out tracing mats with the push of a button! Oh, how I love technology.
I want to thank KB3Teach for the fantastic Bus Route font. I requested that she create a font that would work for transportation themed mats and this amazing font surpassed all my imaginings!
I love to have materials with lots of options. I like a lot of bang for my buck 🙂 So, I wanted to make a large and small set of Road Race Letter Mats and Number Mats. 
Use Larger Mats In A Variety Of Ways
- Include toy cars to practice letter formation, letter identification, numeral formation and identification, build number sense with ten frames 0-10.
- Include dry erase markers to trace the letters.
- Include play dough.
Use Small Cards In A Variety Of Ways
- Take with you during transitions to practice letter identification, letter sounds, numeral identification, or kids can hold up fingers to demonstrate “how many”.
- Put them on a ring and students can trace with fingers, play dough, or dry erase markers.
- Include large and small mats in your block center to add literacy & math components!
You can pick up all of my tracing mat packs in my TPT store. Each set includes all of the cards in both color and black and white. This will allow you to use the print option that works best for you!
Get the Alphabet Tracing Mats, Number & Alphabet Tracing Mats Bundle, and Numeral Tracing Mats & Ten Frames.
Want more activities to use with your toy cars? Check out ZOOM: Addition Center with Dominoes & Dice.
You can use the car manipulatives provided or use toy cars to practice addition. It’s an engaging way for kids to learn and practice addition!
There are also 2 transportation versions of an addition BUMP-like game. Roll 2 dice, find the sum, and drive your car into the parking space with the matching numeral. Get the Back To School edition here.
Kids will love the transportation edition here!
Ha! I had one of those "what in the world is going on" moments when the Bus Route and Alpha Highway fonts just got super-busy. Finally tracked it down to this website. I should have known you would come up with something too-freaking-cute-for-words! I love how you've used your Differentiation Stations Creations inspired font. (SO glad you requested it!) It took forever to create, but was well worth it. Seeing kids so engaged with the letters makes this teacher/fontmaker's heart h.a.p.p.y. (KB3Teach)
Awww! You made my day! I need to thank you for creating this fantastic font. I have a bunch of projects in the works with these fun fonts. You did an amazing job!!!
Laura
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Thanks so much! You made my day 🙂
Laura
Thanks so much! I love hearing that 🙂
Laura