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.
Mini city
A mini model of the city can be made by parents with a child. Or it can be used as project work in the elementary grades of school or the senior group of kindergarten. Take the lid from the box. The larger and wider it is, the better.
Master class on creating a microdistrict
- On a piece of paper equal to the area of the box, we create a sketch diagram. Don't forget about houses, traffic lights and signs.
- We create houses. You can create the layout of the house yourself or take it from a design book.
- Two wide strips are cut out of black paper. This is our roadway. We glue it. From the gray we cut out four narrower stripes. This is the sidewalk. Carefully glue it too.
- A thin white dividing strip is cut out of the white one.
- Then the road marking “pedestrian crossing” is cut out. One by one, a dividing strip and a zebra stripe are glued onto the layout.
- A three-dimensional traffic light (so that it can be seen from all four sides) is made from a black scanner, onto which multi-colored circles are already glued in advance.
- The road signs we need are cut out mirror to each other.
- Now it's the turn of the houses. We glue them, creating a street and neighborhoods.
- If the boys in the class share small cars for the future city, it will be just wonderful.
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.
A game
To test your knowledge of traffic rules, you can create a portable game.
- We create a playing field with houses, signs and pedestrian crossings.
- We are thinking through interesting tasks that a pedestrian who finds himself at one point or another in the game will need to do.
- We select pedestrian characters of the game.
- Cut and glue the cube for the game. If you still have the old one, even better.
Now let's go!
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.
We use cardboard boxes
If you have cardboard boxes at home, this is a great opportunity to realize your wildest fantasies. What can be made from boxes:
- Buildings – for modeling or mock-up, the box shape is ideal. All that remains is to add windows, doors, etc.
- Boxes work well to make traffic lights - this is a ready-made form that just needs to be painted.
Many of the boxes make entire interior items, streets, etc. You can come up with a creative craft within a few minutes.
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.
Use of plastic bottles
Plastic is well suited for activities of the older generation. The material bends well, it can be cut and given a different shape by increasing the temperature. What can be made from plastic bottles:
- An interesting New Year's decoration for the Christmas tree in the form of a traffic light or a traffic police officer.
- Road signs.
- Cars and much more.
Such a voluminous fake will help you win first place in a school competition.
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.
New Year's toys on the theme of traffic rules
The need to buy new decorations for the Christmas tree appears several months before the holiday. You can make interesting crafts yourself. What you can do with your child:
- Girls easily work with small details, such as beads. They can decorate an existing ball. You can either cover a ball in the shape of a road sign with crystals, or make a special case for it.
- Boys work well with felt. Cutting shapes out of it is much more fun than working with paper.
This New Year's craft on the theme of traffic can be hung in the center of the holiday tree.
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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