Bike track and traffic signs

Children ride scooters or balance bikes on a marked track with road signs, learning street safety rules.

Steps

1. Ask parents a day earlier to send children with bikes, scooters, or on foot, wearing safety helmets.
2. Conversation: why walking, cycling, and public transit are beneficial alternatives to private cars.
3. On the blacktop court, draw a roadway track with intersections and pedestrian zebra crossings using chalk.
4. Children learn signs: Stop, Yield, Pedestrian Crossing.
5. They navigate the course while one child takes turns directing traffic like a traffic officer.

Tip: Older students can tally how many classmates arrived by car versus green transport, creating a bar chart.

Materials needed

• Sidewalk chalk (1 pack)
• Children's traffic signs playset (1 set)