Right you are - who can hear anything with 6 trains running in a crowded space? I have used the 'can you find' idea for years, and I give them a page of things to find (or count). For the young ones it is a challenge because many of my themes are TV or Movie related (Find Odd Job from 007 Goldfinger, the limo from the Godfather; Sanford and Son, the hot chick in the T-bird from American Graffiti etc), but they love counting cows and horses and pick-up trucks and taxi cabs... and they always search hard for the owl and eagle, Batman's cave or the Lost Dutchman mine. Pure fun - prizes are generally a hot-wheels car, an engineer hat or a choo-choo whistle...whatever I happen to have at the time (or not). The set up is fluid, things change every year, but the track remains screwed down.
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