One of the projects we com­pleted dur­ing the long win­ter months cooped up in the house, was a race­track around the base­ment.  We mea­sured an oval around the perime­ter of the base­ment, drew the out­line with a pen­cil, then, painted it in with black con­crete paint.  The pic­tures below show the fin­ished prod­uct.  We unveiled the race­track to the kids on Christ­mas morn­ing.  We kept them out of the base­ment for a week while we did the mea­sur­ing and paint­ing.  When they finally saw it, they were so shocked and excited.  They also got new motor­ized cars to drive around, so it was a dou­ble whammy on Christ­mas morning.

The only things we needed to buy were paint rollers on poles and the paint.  This was a fairly inex­pen­sive project and the kids absolutely love it.