| Here's a spring, and summer, project to give you some | | | | designed hills and valleys into your blueprint didn't you? |
| quality time with the kids and grandkids: | | | | As you remove dirt from one spot build a mound |
| Create a village or town with remote control | | | | elsewhere, shaping the terrain to fit your design. This |
| construction equipment. The first task is the planning, | | | | improves you, and the youngsters, dexterity at |
| and you can perform this phase so it lasts through the | | | | controlling the RC, and enhances motor skills for the |
| spring rains. Put your minds together and create | | | | future. |
| blueprints. Put them on paper so you can see the end | | | | It makes the work more interesting too. If your |
| picture of your little town, and have a plan of action to | | | | construction project puts buildings on different levels |
| follow as you build your community. Once the project | | | | the finished creation won't be so boring. After the |
| is on paper it's time for the labor. Put on your work | | | | excavators begin their job bring the loaders back into |
| clothes, get dirty, and have fun. | | | | action to carry the loose dirt and stone to the waiting |
| First is the heavy dirt removal as you begin shaping | | | | dump trucks. Then haul it away in those trucks to a |
| the landscape where you'll build. Bring in the front | | | | collection area. You'll use some of that dirt on your |
| loaders. You'll want to remove the topsoil without | | | | project later. |
| damaging it. This is important because you use that | | | | Now you're all set up to build foundations and roads |
| topsoil for the lawns of all your buildings at the end of | | | | for your town. |
| the construction job. | | | | You also just provided a learning experience for the |
| Once you safely remove the topsoil, store it to the | | | | kids. Wasn't it fun? And look at the smiles on those |
| side, and cover it with protective material, the | | | | little faces, pasted there because you just gave them |
| excavation begins. | | | | some of your attention, and time. |
| Start with the heavy removal equipment, the | | | | Now that's quality experience in their hearts. |
| excavators, and start sculpting the town area. You | | | | |