For older preschoolers
For children 6-7, it is better to complicate the task so that the kids themselves cut out shapes for traffic lights from the proposed stencils and draw facial expressions on them. To interest them more, you can offer to draw the faces of emoticons or emojis, which are so popular nowadays, on the craft mugs.
Traffic signals can be decorated with various elements. To highlight a lit signal, the rest can be shaded in the form of a hash mark. Or, conversely, you can emphasize the desired color by gluing or drawing rays around it.
At older preschool age, you can already safely create trimmed appliqués. The applique also has a wonderful combination with origami. Traffic signals will look original in the form of figures created using folded sheets of multi-colored paper.
This combines 2 types of craft making techniques and increases children’s interest. An example of such a product is a traffic light made from cats.
Plasticine traffic light
When coming up with crafts on the theme “Fun traffic light”, do not forget about plasticine, which children love to play with and which can be found in almost every home. With basic modeling skills, you can make a textured or naturalistic traffic light.
Option 1.
The body of the road unit is molded from plasticine - it can be rectangular or oval. Lightly pressed circles of the desired colors are attached to one side. To make the structure more durable, you can insert a pencil or stick inside.
Option 2.
You can make a panel from plasticine. You will need cardboard inserted into a frame and plasticine.
A traffic light is drawn on cardboard, the entire plane is filled with plasticine of a neutral color (black, gray, beige). Signal lights are made from red, green and yellow plasticine. You can complicate the work if you use plasticine for the panel, formed into small balls - they are fixed to the base, slightly flattened.
Unique crafts
Children of primary school and senior preschool age are already able to show their imagination and manual dexterity and create individual, unique crafts. In this case, you can use the following traffic light design techniques:
- quilling or twisting. This type of technique involves rolling up colorful strips of paper, in this case creating an original look for traffic signals. For many, this will seem difficult at first, but with the care and experience of a teacher or educator, any child can handle this technique.
- trimming. Twisting also takes place here, but the work is more painstaking. Thin strips of colored paper are wound onto a pen shaft and then glued onto the template. You will need as many rolled paper strips as possible so that when gluing there are no gaps between them.
From a plastic bottle
It would seem that an empty plastic bottle is a waste item, but how much can be made from it! can be done in different ways.
Option 1.
3 caps are painted in signal colors and are attached to an empty bottle. A stick attached to another lid-stand is inserted into the bottle cap. That's all!
Option 2.
A bottle craft can become a real masterpiece. To do this, paint the bottle a neutral color, turn the lid down and draw or stick on eyes, nose, and mouth using self-adhesive tape. Place the signals in the middle. Glue hands from cardboard or fabric to the sides, and make legs from below. You can give the traffic light a police baton and a traffic sign.
