Are there any pre-k teachers out there?

Turn the block area into a city. Either you or the children could use wooden blocks to make roads and put the signs though out the area. The children can then drive the toy cars through city, following the signs as they go along. Or you could actually put paper down to make roads and have the children be the cars.

Every year I do a safety theme with my pre-k class and I spend one day on "traffic safety", so we do a lot of activities about safety signs. One activity that is popular every year is doing colors and shapes with the safety signs.

- Make the signs out of colored construction paper (red for a stop signs, yellow for a yield sign, etc.). Make a "shadow" of the signs out of black construction paper. The goal is for the kids to match the correct sign to the correct shadow according to shape.

- Another great activity is work off of the colors of safety signs. I always sit my kids in a circle and hold up a sign one at a time. The kids are supposed to stand up and say the color of the sign IF they are wearing that color! So, if you held up a stop sign, those kids wearing red would stand up and yell "RED"! This game gets really fun when you speed up the process or what I always do- a bonus for those kiddos who can remember the "Spanish" name for each color and yell it out! lol

- An art project that I have done with traffic signs is to let each child choose a sign (out of a basket where they can't see it) and then make a collage out of the color of the sign (Someone who chose the safety sign for "hospital" would make a blue collage!

- I also count the traditional red- yellow- green traffic light as a safety sign and we do a whole project on what the colors mean on the traffic light and play "Red Light, Green Light" (and add "yellow light" to mean slow motion since yellow means slow down) It is always a blast and the kids love it!

Hope some of these ideas help!

Print out pictures of safety signs they should know such as stop signs, exit signs, crosswalk signs, etc. Put them on small cards to make a Memory-style matching game. Another one my kids really enjoyed was a game of red light green light using traffic light signs I made. Red meant stop, yellow meant slowly, green meant go.

just draw some safety signs that they know and talk to them about it.

make them colorful and easy to understand.