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Machine Mission Lab

Discover Road-Building Machines

Coloring, Puzzles & Build-a-Road Activities

Help a paper crew turn an unfinished route into a road. Eight machine missions bring digging, hauling, grading, paving, and finishing to life through coloring, picture lessons, puzzles, and drawing.

Available now in paperback

About the book

For the child who notices every digger: follow real machines from the first digging to a finished road. Explore one paper mission at a time with a grown-up, using coloring, picture-led choices, counting and drawing. For ages 4–6. The 96-page paperback includes blank reverse pages between activity pages.

What's inside

  • Eight machine missions: excavator, bulldozer, wheel loader, dump truck, grader, roller, paver and road-marking machine
  • Picture-led Discover, Look, Try and Create activities
  • 96-page, 8.5 × 11-inch black-and-white paperback for ages 4–6

Try a real machine mission

Actual pages from the paperback. Select a page to see it larger.

Actual page5: Excavator discovery and coloring page, with a bucket digging below ground.
Page 5
Actual page19: Push or scoop? Point to each machine part and its job.
Page 19
Actual page13: Draw a trench below the ground line and add a pipe and soil pile.
Page 13

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