Themed learning is extremely useful when it comes to teaching kids about a particular subject. Why? Because focusing all games, activities, songs, arts, and crafts on one subject allow children to become familiar with it very quickly. The best part is that they’ll learn while having fun!
- Transportation Stencils
Once you’ve gone through the different means of transportation with your children, you should make stencils!
All you need is:
- cardboard,
- paper,
- tape,
- thinned paint,
- brushes
- and crayons.
Gather your materials and start by cutting transportation shapes from your cardboard. Include cars, planes, boats, etc. Then, place some tape, sticky side out, on the back of the shapes and stick them onto your paper. Next, let your children paint around the edges of the shapes. When they’re done, remove the cardboard and allow the paper to dry.
Once dry, get your children to decorate the means of transportation items with crayons! Also, ask them questions about what each transport type is, where they are found, etc.
- Make Your Own Tugboat
Making a tugboat is a fun arts and crafts activity your children will love!
You’ll need:
- an empty milk carton,
- six black paper circles,
- toilet paper tubes with two 1-inch slits done at the bottom across from one another,
- cottonwool balls,
- and red and black tempera paint.
- Carpet Boating
Carpet boating is a fun game to play with kids and all you’ll need are carpet squares or towels on a tiled, laminate or wooden floor.
- Identifying Means of Transportation
- Which one travels on the ocean?
- Which one travels in the sky?
- Which one travels on tracks?
- Which one do we use more often?
- Which one can take you to the moon? Etc.
All these activities will help your children learn more about the means of transportation and they will have fun!
For more transportation fun have a look at our discovery puzzle set, six-sided traffic puzzle and play rug highway.
