Transportation

Play red light/green light.

Make stoplight cookies like these at betty crocker-- put them in order-- red, yellow, green. Or you could use frosted grahm crackers with gumdrops, lifesavers, or m&ms.





Make a ramp and send cars down it. Measure which one goes the farthest.

Make tire tracks on paper with toy cars wheels dipped in paint.

Hold a car wash, and wash the bikes and ride on toys outside.

From Sugardoodle:

Free Play and Art - Make card board box cars. Find boxes big enough for the children to sit in. Cut the bottoms outs and the flaps. The flaps can be used to make rearview mirrors (cover with aluminum foil) or license plates. Paper plates can be used for the wheels. Make personalized license plates with their names. You could make a driving range for the kids to drive their cars on, different traffic signs and maybe have one child be a police man.

Parking Garage - You'll need masking tape. Place on floor place like a parking spaces, numbers or letters written in each space ( you can use pieces of paper with the number written on them). Children take turns driving their car to the correct number parking space that you assign them.

Stop Sign - Make an octagon out of red construction paper. Using black licorice, cut into half inch pieces. If your child is younger, write the word STOP on the paper and have them place the pieces of licorice on top of the letters. If they are older, have them spell STOP all by themselves (have them sound it out if they need to).

Movie - Have everyone watch a movie that pertains to this lesson plan in their card board cars. Give everyone a small bag of popcorn.

All Aboard the Color Train:
Cut out many "tickets" from different colors of construction paper. Give each child three or four tickets. Tell the children that you are the conductor of a Color Train and they can ride the train if they have a ticket that matches the color you call. Set up chairs or have the children line up to march around the room. Announce "All aboard the Red Train" or the color of your choice. Have the children give you their ticket and have them march around the room. After a minute, announce a new color. Variations: use numbers, letters or shapes instead of colors.

Train Sort
Set up a few boxes to make them look like train cars. Supply the children with different things (cargo) to sort into the boxes. Ask them to sort by color, shape, texture etc. Or let them sort and tell you how they chose to sort the items.

Number Train
Cut out a train engine and 5 box car shapes from construction paper. (You may choose to laminate them to make them last longer. Number the cars from 1 to 5, then ask the children to line the cars up in order.

Transportation songs

Train numbers worksheet