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Home | Store | Forum | What's New | Contact | About | Terms | Links | Storytime | Rhymes Road safety activities  Awareness ideas for young children's early learning      Hand holding for road safety The activity idea on this page focuses on hands and their usefulness in staying safe around roads and cars! Take prints on paper with paint dipped gloves, mittens and paint directly onto children's bare palms, if wanted share palm-to-palm colour blending with a friend.  Promote a positive message about our hands and hopefully these enjoybale experiences can be recalled when hand holding is rejected or becomes a more serious matter - Sticky glue rhyme  Requesting gloves & outgrown mittens  Hand holding rhyme - sticky glue  Handprint outline template sheet   Sticky glue hand holding rhyme holding hands is what we do holding hands like sticky glue holding hands helps keep me safe when crossing over roads (or: when walking next to roads) Activity sheets to promote road safety hand holding                    joining the hands - tracing around hands - road safety awareness stickers Buy full A4 sticky back label paper on amazon.co.uk Other activity ideas to encourage hand holding  Circle time songs, rhymes, clapping games, hand shaking & greetings ring o ring o roses here we go round the mulberry bush head, shoulder, knees and toes dingle dangle scarecrow    Multi-sensory impairment and touch sensitivities may mean some children feel uncomfortable holding another perosn's hand. Page 16 of the 2011 Early Support publication helps to explain this sensation and reactions.