Road Safety

* Road safety is an important concept for kids to learn at a very young age. Road safety activities hold the potential of preventing serious injury or even death by teaching children how to behave near roads. Start the activities as early as possible and continue reviewing them each year. Get the parents involved by offering some of the activity suggestions for them to do at home.
Kid City
  * The kid city activity gives the kids a chance to practice road safety on a smaller scale. The activity works best in a large area such as a gym or an outdoor play area. Mark the roads with long strips of paper such as the kind that comes on large rolls. Draw a line down the middle to make the paper resemble roads. Lay out the roads to make intersections. Make road signs using wrapping paper tubes as the poles and cardboard as the signs. Place the signs around the miniature city. The kids walk or ride bikes around the kid city to practice the road safety rules. If you have a large basketball court or other concrete surface outside, use sidewalk chalk to make the roads.
Safe or Unsafe
  * Let the kids decide which activities are safe near the road. Create picture cards with various situations that deal with road safety. Choose both safe and unsafe examples. Ideas for safe situations include a child wearing his helmet and pads while biking, a child strapped into a car seat, a child holding his mom's hand as he crosses the road or a child obeying a traffic sign on his bike. Unsafe examples include a child running into the street without looking, a child biking without any protection or a child not wearing a seat belt in a car. The kids decide if each picture is safe or unsafe. This allows them to apply what they learned about road safety to new situations.
Class Book
  * A class book lets the kids apply their road safety knowledge into a written format. Get the kids involved in creating the pictures for the book. Have the kids pose demonstrating various road safety... [continues]

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