I’ve had a lot of requests (including from my son) for some cars and trucks for the paper city. So here they are! There’s a template below if you want to try them out. Just cut on the black outlines and fold. Cool!
Template: Click on the image below, then print.
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My son is one happy little man! If you add a helicopter he will be over the moon:) We love all of your designs!
I LOVE this city. Really!
Great!
This is so awesome. Thanks!
You are wonderful for sharing your talents with others. A BIG thank you!
Great! We made our own paper city today and coloured it as well. See my blog!
Tanx again!
Thank you everyone!
Peggy Rice - That's a good idea! I'll definitely have to make a helicopter.
Effie - Thanks for showing me your paper city colorings. You have some great artists in your house!
Today I arrived to your blog, it´s amazing!
I enjoyed with all of your proyects. I'm from Argentina, so my english may be pretty poor ... I'm sorry.
I recomend you another blog of a young girl from my country, your children will like it too: www.anaparatodos.com
Thank you! Our little town is still going strong. My little one will be thrilled to see the vehicles.
What a cool blog! So glad I discovered it!!
thanks for bikes and cars !!! I love this town !!
My son will LOVE this. He's obsessed with cars.
yeah!!!! bad weather here, 3 childs at home tomorrow... a great activity thanks to you!!
@ Joel, thank you so much (blush).
tres chic, joel! the design is perfect for picking up. and i love the focus of flowers & ice-cream as the main businesses in town. :)
Thank you so much for sharing your lovely city design. It kept my 4 year old and I very occupied for most of the afternoon today. His older brother and father were also quite interested in it when they got home later in the day. Thank you for being so generous with your designs.
I have just nominated you for a blogging award. Pop on over to see.
-Phyllis
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Thank you so much for your design. We have a bustling Paper City at our house thanks to your generosity. Thank you for sharing it.
from one blog to another I came to yours. WOW!!! such great ideas and design! congratulations! I'll be adding you to my blogroll so I can "follow" you :)
are you portuguese?
If so: parabéns e continuação de um excelente trabalho!
abraço e saudações artÃsticas aqui do velho continente :)
Thank you so much everybody. I love looking at all of your cities!
Melro - Yes, my name is Portuguese, but it goes way back. I'd love to go to Portugal someday.
These are such great designs. I will be printing them out to play with in our Lego city. I posted a how-to and your cars and trucks will work with very little modifications! Here's the link to the how-to. http://flexibledreams.blogspot.com/2010/01/lego-creations.html
would you accept to adopt me or mary me even if I'm old, already married and French ??? No !
mmmm, then I am going to continue to dream in front of the "merveilleux" world that you create and share here.
Thank you so much; you've got a great talent!
thanks for the idea and template my children have had loads of imaginative playtime using them. the photo paper was a great tip.
Joel
Thank you… we had a great time creating our own amazing red city, here in Israel!
Both of my sons loved it!
Shalom!
Hadar
Thanks for sharing, my son will love it^.^
My students attached a paper clip to the vehicle and then moved it with a magnet: http://www.flickr.com/photos/judyjowers/6092453177/in/photostream/
Cool, I love that trick too! I've been doing this with another paper project that I'm working on, but haven't tried it with the paper city cars. Nice one!
Thank You for this Idea!
this template is THE BOMB. I used it to make a birthday card. http://thehandmadewagon.blogspot.com/2012/02/pop-up-birthday-card.html thanks so much for sharing =)
Wow, totally awesome! And I love that it's for a grown-up. Nice!
can you please make a space set with the rocket. pleaseeeeee i really love rocket. thank you so much :)
Cindy - I've actually got something in the works that space and rocket people will hopefully really like! It's a project I've been working on for months! Hope to get it done soon.
Dam! I really want to pin your blog to my ointerest:( but i cant
Hey Sara-Lee. Thanks! Hmmm, that's really weird that you're having trouble with pinning. Usually things pin just fine.
yes sorry typo *pinterest i cant seem to see the pin it button anywhere on your page? very very cool stuff by the way, Im a primary school teacher and your ideas are fantastic for the classroom:)
Yeah, I don't have a built-in pin button for my page, but you can pin photos from any site by using the Pinterest droplet thing. They have instructions for how to do it. Good luck and thanks again! Happy teaching!
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Hello Joel, somehow, I can't print the vehicule page right. When I click on the template, it doesn't open as a pdf but it opens in the browser. Am I the only one experimenting this problem?
Hey Stephanie. Try it now! Thanks! Joel
Wow, that was a quickly solved problem! Thanks!
Ha, yeah, you were lucky and caught me during baby's nap time! I can get a lot done fast during naps! :)
Oh, Joel, thank you so much for making these adorable images available. My 7-year-old will love them. Say, I think it's super that you offer them for free, but I was wondering, have you ever thought of putting ALL your coloring pages and paper city pages together into ONE PDF and then charging a nominal sum for it? It took me quite some time to click on and save as all the documents, and I know that *I* would certainly be willing to pay a buck or two to get them ALL AT ONCE, in one PDF. You could still offer them for free individually, but for those of us who want or need to maximize their brief online time each day, having ALL of them with just one click would be worth a dollar or two. Thanks for such a great site and such lovely resources!
Thanks Morro! As for the one download. That's a good idea. I'll have to think about the best way to do that. Also, I'm in the process of producing some of the paper cities as kits that people can buy. I'll keep everyone posted.
Dear Joel, your paper city is amazing! I use it to play with my kids especially with our homemade moon sand. I've posted a link right here: http://faccioedisfo.blogspot.it/2012/12/il-mare-dinverno-ovvero-moon-sand-fai.html Thank you very much for sharing your talent!
Wow, that looks so fun! Thanks for showing me! And very cool homemade moon sand!
This is great! You should also do London! Great work!!
Thanks! Yes, London is definitely on my to-do list!
Just found your awesome website, thank you a lot for sharing your art!