Talking About Road Safety With Collage Traffic Lights

This month the children have started to pay more interest in transport so I have been working this into my planning. With the older children this is a great opportunity to start talking to them about road safety while out and about or through play.

While the babies slept I invited the toddlers to join me in a craft activity. I set up bowls of red, green and orange tissue paper and other collage materials with glue and thick strips of black craft paper. Each piece of paper had three pre-drawn circles.

The activity started off with us discussing the colours we would be using and our favourite colours. 

I explained to the children that we had some traffic lights to decorate and we discussed why we needed traffic lights on the roads and how we used them when walking to school. H was able to name all of the colours and we used a book to help us remember the order the colours should be in. H then recalled his father stops at the traffic light to let people go.

Red on top
Green Below
Red says stop
Green says go
Amber says wait even if your late

Links to Development Matters:
PSED
• Enjoys responsibility of carrying out small tasks.
• Shows confidence in asking adults for help

CL
• Uses talk to connect ideas, explain what is happening and anticipate what might happen next, recall and relive past experiences.
• Questions why things happen and gives explanations. Asks e.g. who, what, when, how.
• Uses a range of tenses (e.g. play, playing, will play, played).

UW
• Comments and asks questions about aspects of their familiar world such as the place where they live or the natural world.