Train Tables

[CedarCreek]

I have this http://www.step2.com/p/Deluxe-Canyon...in-Track-Table and I love it. I also have a train table you're supposed to use the wooden tracks on but we never use it for that. We use our train table for Little People, Duplo, blocks and to hold our sensory bin. The wooden train tracks get built across the floor where there is lots of room to spread out.

^^That's a really cool table!

[nanglgrl]

underneath mine has a drawer that pulls out and it has extra tracks and such, so the kids can make their own tracks if they want.

I like it countrymom and I may just have to do this. My kids never play with the trains because it's so confusing to put the train track together.

[countrymom]

I like it countrymom and I may just have to do this. My kids never play with the trains because it's so confusing to put the train track together.

thats what was happening here and I found that the table wasn't really being used, but now its used all the time. I think its used because its already built and ready to go.

[LK5kids]

Sorry to highjack, butI just or a nice train table at the local thrft store for $5.00. So happy!happyface. I know younger kids won't/ can't get those tracks together. I think screwing them down is a good idea. At least it's not permanent.

[e.j.]

I did glue it, but they ripped it off and the velco didn't lay flat for me and they found out how to rip it off too.

I spent an entire weekend getting my train set up "just so" and then hot gluing the tracks to my train table. My neice and nephew came over that Sunday night and had the tracks all ripped up within 15 minutes.

For whatever reason, my husband didn't want me to screw them on. I wish I had had your picture to show him how well it would have worked. It looks great!

[mamac]

Thanks for all the responses. I think I'm going to end up screwing mine to the table. I do have drawers underneath with extra track if they ever wanted to design their own on the floor. I also have the Step 2 table that Lianne posted a link to. That one is in the basement playroom. We use that one with the matchbox cars because the "tracks" are smooth. I'd love to do a wall mount on top of the wooden train table so I could still use it for other things but I don't have any place to hang it.

I'm still trying to figure out how to set up my play rooms but I'll save that question for another day.