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Home | Store | Forum | What's New | Contact | About | Terms | Links | Storytime | Rhymes Road safety activities for preschool children These activity ideas offer opportunities to discuss staying safe around the UK's road networks. They aim to help promote positive messages about being careful pedestrians and look at the vehicles, people and traffic control stytems that might be encountered. roads    people who help us: school crossing patrol officers hand holding & the sticky glue rhyme finding safe places to cross staying away from the edge of road - the inside track seatbelts and travel safety traffic lights - stop wait and go rhyme the stop, look & listen code emergency services and transport that uses the road  games and language to explore speed Walk to school events on Livingstreets.org.uk Beep beep! days on Brake.org.uk Rules about crossing the road on gov.uk The Green Cross Code  Think! Education.gov.uk Games and story books on amazon.co.uk Bumper to Bumper book     Topsy & Tim safety first Road side cones or bollards Transport threading shapes Road sign toys Transport jigsaw puzzle Emergency service stencils Emergency play cars Driving wheel toy Beside the road, careful pedestrians walk smart, are aware and stay safe... Make a road for role play Create roadways and maps for small car & vehicle adventures. Sheet of basic words that can be used to discuss events surrounding roads & staying safe around roads.  School crossing patrol: role play props   Make SCP stop signs and talk about the people that help us to cross and stay safe.  collage with reflective materials to see how reflective light helps to keep people safe in the dark. TOP   Holding hands to cross roads safely A variety of  ideas to promote and encourage hand holding   Gloves and mittens dipped in paint     Road safety awareness stickers and 2 activity sheets   Hand holding road safety rhyme    stop look listen print this stop look and listen word outline sheet and the accompanying road safety actions cards and include playdough, scissors, sticky tape and dowels to turn the cards into signs that can be held in place by the dough. Laminate and use chalk markers to colour in or trace the outline text   Q. 'how safe is it to cross'? Role play and paint loaded small car activity involving markmaking on paper,  a zebra crossing, beacons and pedestrians!   On the road careful pedestrains become clever passengers ..   Buckle up - travelling safely It's a legal requirement to wear seat belts is the UK and this activity helps look at why, how and children's personal experiences - information on ROSPA Fine motor skill threading, markmaking & collage Traffic lights & pedestrian crossing Painting 3 coloured traffic lights with the stop wait go bears Playdough traffic light mats explore the lights and sound commands of traffic lights and pedestrian crossings. Traffic light signal rhyme Racing car game on playdough-activities.com Do your little F1s have the inside track about road safety? Use this dough activity to promote how a good route is one that stays away from the edge of the road or table! Explore the language of speed - fast, slow, stop and go! Car Journey games I Spy 10 game suggestions from the RAC and  8 games from the AA with printables available Wheels! All manner of sizes and materials to build with! Plastic milk bottle lids Wooden wheels   Mobilo wheels Duplo wheels TOP Sit and Rides Petrol Diesel Electric pump  Time to stop? wait? go? Vehicles that use roads he type of transport that children will see most often on the roads that they visit and the vehicles that use other pathways and tracks. Transport jigsaw on amazon.co.uk and construction vehicles  Emergency services RTA  First responders Land and Air ambulance and paramedics Fire brigade and their cutting equipment  Additional resources   Road safety online games - cornwall.gov.uk   KS1 - WInnie on patrol     Making roads safe government policy - gov.uk and know your traffic signs    TOP