Road
safety activities
Awareness ideas for young children's early learning
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Making
roadways for role play
Take rubbings from tarmac, gravel and concrete surfaces using wax crayons
on paper and talk about the types of transport that might use these places,
the speed of cars, road crossings and the places that children associate
most strongly with vehicles such as car parks, television, their toy box!
Once complete these waxed and painted sheets can be laminated for use
again and again and with the knowledge that more sheets can be made whenever
wanted the road network children envisage can change and adapt, supporting
scissor cutting, design and problem solving skills in the process.
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Creative process
Find a safe, interesting outdoor surface that can
be used to take wax crayon to paper rubbings.
During activities chat about tarmac, concrete, roads,
pavements and safe crossing places. Explore who has cars at home,
who uses the bus, rides a bike, flies in a helicopter..
Once happy with a wax rubbing, cover with a layer
of thinned grey poster paint and leave to dry.
Print copies of the road markings and cut out.
Glue a pavement strip to each side of the dried road
rubbing sheets and position the zebra crossing on one of them.
Print and cutout the beacon pieces and glue back to back. Laminate
so that children are able to free-play with them. Alternatively the beacons
can be attached to the rubbing sheet to make them a permanent fixture.
Laminate the road sheets and finsh by joining them together along
the short edges to form a continual strip for group or solitary play.
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Sheet of basic road safety words
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