Best Homemade Geo Gift of the Season

Lulu is 12. She and her Mom created what I believe is the best geo gift I’ve ever seen. Lulu has two cousins, twin three year old boys. For the holidays Lulu and her Mom drew out, in permanent colored markers, a cloth play area for the twins’ cars. It has roads, complete with stop signs. It has Lulu’s house and just down the street, the twins’ house. (She’s quite aware that in fact they live about two hours apart, at either end of the state of Massachusetts, but clearly, in her heart, the boys live much, much closer!) The map has a school and a dog park. It has a library. It has a community garden, complete with flowers. It has a car repair shop, just in case of an accident. It has all the points of interest in the mental maps of the boys, at least in Lulu’s estimation. I think she got it just right.

My first thought: Which one of them would get to take it to college to hang on the wall of their dorm room?