Teach students about traffic lights with a craft. Give your students three small paper plates each. Ask students to paint one plate red, one plate yellow and one plate green. While the paint dries, help students cut out a large rectangle from black card stock. The rectangle should be long enough for all three plates to fit on it. Once the plates are dry, help students glue the plates on the paper, with red on top, yellow in the middle and green on the bottom.
Help students begin to recognize different traffic signs with a craft. Give students two paper plates and some red and green paint. Ask students to paint one plate red and the other plate green. Once the paint is dry, help students write the word "STOP" on the red plate in black marker, and "GO" on the green plate. Use glue to attach a tongue depressor to the bottom of each plate as a handle. Let students play "red light, green light" in the classroom.
Let students create their own roadways with a simple craft. Cut a piece of black construction paper into strips to represent roads. Let students glue these black strips onto a white paper background. If you give them black road strips of varying lengths, they can add some twists and turns to their roads. With white and yellow paint, they can add lanes to their roads. Next, help students cut small circles from red paper and glue them to the roadway as stop signs. Encourage students to draw cars on their roadways, or laminate them and let students "drive" on their roads using toy cars.
Talk with students about the different types of vehicles they see on the road, including cars, vans, bikes, trucks and buses. Ask students to draw some of the vehicles they see on the road using markers. After their drawings are complete, help students use safety scissors to cut out their vehicles. Create a transportation mural by attaching students' drawings to a bulletin board. Alternatively, ask students to cut out pictures of vehicles they see on the road from magazines.