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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      "Is it safe to cross?" Using roleplay props, explore the type of situations that children could encouter when out and about near roads. Discuss what happens when a road needs crossing, how cars slow down, speed up, where pedestrians wait and does anyone help them to cross the road?  We had great fun making stop-motion animation, with, as it turns out a less than safe driver behind the paint-dipped wheels of the car! (refresh the page to play the .gif again) stop, look and listen   Pedestrian role play figures  blank people pedestrian outlines   beacons from the   road making page and small SCP sign   Road section 1 and road section 2 - print and join together with sticky tape Dip small cars into ready mixed poster paint and roll them backwards and forwards to cover the whole of the wheeled surface. Position the car on a length of paper that's been turned into a pretend role play road. Drive along and watch how the paint tracks mark out the direction and distance. Role play with the crossing section and character cutouts who are wanting to cross the road safely...