The game process is recognized by modern teachers as a very effective way of providing children with the necessary information. Working together with them turns classes into an exciting process.
We offer several techniques for making crafts on the topic of traffic rules in a kindergarten with their own hands to instill a culture of safe movement on the street. In addition to road signs, children can make a mini-city filled with car models and traffic lights.
Craft material
A lot of experience has been accumulated in such games. If you look at the photos of traffic crafts, you can see that making them is not difficult.
Parents will help children at home, and teachers will help children in child care institutions. Anything is suitable as a raw material: colored and white paper, cardboard, boxes, plastic bottles and their caps, old CDs, plasticine, toothpicks, tape. You will also need pencils, markers, paints, brushes, glue, and scissors.Simple ways to make a traffic light
In older preschool age, you can safely make crafts using electrical parts. A very original option is a traffic light made from plastic bottles. 2-liter dark bottles will do. Three windows are cut into them with scissors or a cutter. Each of them contains light bulbs connected by batteries and equipped with power buttons.
To install a traffic light near an intersection, mount it on a portable PVC pipe. Cover the windows with colored glass or film. Bring the control device into operation by pressing the desired button.
Where to start
It is important to create a scenario that involves you in the creative process, and then working together will become useful and educational. Gradually, the child will remember the norms and realize that:
- At the “Pedestrian crossing” arrow, you must not let your guard down;
- First you need to make sure that all transport has stopped;
- when walking, look to the left, and when you reach the middle, look to the right;
- It is forbidden to play near the road, even if it is in the yard.
Application
A children's craft in the shape of a "Pedestrian Crossing" sign will help your child learn the rules of the road, including learning how to cross the street correctly.
The geometric figure required for the road sign (in this case, a rectangle) is cut out of cardboard of the desired color. Then the strips and the human figure are glued on.
The “Pedestrian traffic is prohibited” sign is made from a round blank, which is glued to the base, and then the figure of a pedestrian is fixed in its center with glue.
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To better assimilate the Rules of the Road, the child must get carried away with working on the craft, and then bring it to school and show it to classmates.
At what age to start
Even a small child can make DIY traffic crafts from paper or cardboard. This process not only develops hand motor skills and spatial imagination, but also brings new information.
For example, by drawing or gluing together a traffic light, a child will remember the colors of the lanterns, and with the help of an adult’s explanations, he will learn that red signals danger and one must stand, yellow means readiness, and one can go only when the light turns green.
How to make a traffic light
There are many options for manufacturing. It can be made in the form of a paper or plasticine applique on a landscape sheet or on a tube from a toilet paper roll, or on a box, for example, from a juice box.
Any available or junk means will do. A little imagination is enough to arouse the interest of a child. And then the vital rules will be remembered quickly.
Techniques used in work
- Images created using various paints, pencils, pens, felt-tip pens.
- Applications made of cardboard, woven materials, plastics, paper.
- A collage using applications with hand-drawn, molded elements, origami, surrounding everyday details, photographs and other things.
- Layout, that is, the creation of volumetric elements.
- The use of fabrics, threads, embroidery, knitting and other techniques.
To make crafts dedicated to traffic rules, almost all available materials are used: plastic, plywood, cardboard, textiles, old toys, branches, fruits and things intended to be thrown away. The choice of material mainly depends on the age of the child, and should correspond to his interests.
How to make a road with a barrier
To do this, you will need to cut a strip of black paper of the required width and glue it onto a piece of cardboard with PVA glue. Cut out barriers from the boxes, wrap them in white paper and paint them with red stripes.
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Attach to the sides. Make markings depending on the type of traffic: single-lane or two-lane. Draw and display signs. Toy cars will complement the picture.
Interest turns into knowledge
Crafts for little ones are easy to make. They are made in the form of a three-dimensional object or a flat figure.
Drawing road crossing strips together with children and placing special signs on “paper streets” will help to convey to children the law about moving across roads in strictly designated areas.
When drawing sidewalks, you should explain that they are for people only, and that you should walk on them keeping to the right. During the game, learning occurs naturally and naturally.
Road signs
For older children, road safety crafts are used to introduce road symbols. They are easy to prepare. After drawing on paper, cut out, glue on cardboard and make a base for them from tubes and circles.
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Such material will help classify signs. The first ones carry information, the second ones make warnings, and the third ones issue a ban.
Convertible made of cardboard
You will need: a deep cardboard box, disposable paper plates and cups, acrylic paint, a pencil, a ruler, tape, a stationery knife, long wooden spatulas, 2 orange corks, a red flat button, colored paper, felt-tip pens.
Master Class
- Close and seal the box with tape.
- Draw the silhouette of the doors with a pencil.
- Cut out the doors.
- Cut the windshield across the box.
- Fold the windshield forward and make a wide slit.
- Secure with tape.
- Make the seats by folding the back down.
- Paint the car with acrylic paint.
- Cut the base of the paper cups and glue the lights on. Make an exhaust pipe from the rest of the glasses.
- Make a radiator grill using 6 spatulas.
- Make a sight glass divider using the seventh spatula.
- Make hazard lights out of traffic jams.
- Glue the wheels using plates.
- Draw logos with a felt-tip pen.
- Cover the interior with colored paper. It is better to use a brown color that resembles natural leather.
- Glue a red button and draw a smiley face on it.
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How to make a cardboard car with your own hands
Do crafts with your child, trust him with the work, give him hints and help. Thus, you will spend your leisure time usefully and cheerfully with your hands.
Behavior in transport
It is important to teach how to behave correctly in and out of transport. The behavior model is formed during the game with a layout made up of streets, cars, buses, and stops. The little people are molded from plasticine or salt dough.
The child will get a fun idea of how to get on and off the bus correctly, so that in practice the information will be consolidated and gradually become a habit.
The road through the eyes of children | Country of Masters
A competition with this name has been taking place in our Lipetsk region for as long as I can remember. There was so much to see at these exhibitions: models of roads, traffic lights, drawings, fairy tales, poems. I also did a lot, but when last year my poem and a traffic light made of pompoms did not take up anything even at the district level, I realized that something out of the ordinary was needed. So I came up with a composition called “At night near the crossing”
Pedestrian traffic lights rest under the traffic light :)
On a bench made of spatulas
Leather bound book
Side view of the entire composition
Well, once again in all its glory!
And finally - crafts from previous years. This mini-composition is made of some kind of plasticine, which dries very quickly and becomes so light and light.
View from above
“Unusual flower” made from ball plasticine - 1st place in the regional competition.
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