Any transportation : by land craft ideas for 2-4 yr old kids?

-You could use a car or a truck and get child or children to dip the wheels and paint and then roll it onto white paper to make tread marks.



You could get a few large boxes similar in size get child or children to paint attach boxes by tape to stapes the make straps for each box to go over the childs head so that it is resting on the back of the childs neck. This would look like a train. This is good for communication skills and also good and balance.



Hope these helpAh...we're doing transportation these next couple of weeks also. :-) I steer away from "crafts" as at 2-4 years, we end up doing them for them. Some of the things we are doing:



* Name trains- children will cut out (with help if needed...we do scissors every day) a train and will add enough cars (different colors- to reinforce colors) to have one car per letter in their name. They will stamp their letters on their cars and add a magazine cutout of something that represents the sound in that letter.



* We'll be doing the painting with vehicle tracks also.



* We'll be making tunnels out of boxes and tp/paper towel tubes and placing them in the sand sensory table. They can decorate/paint them.



* We'll be working with numerical order by adding cars to a train that have been prenumbered.



* we will be matching car cards to corresponding number cards.



* We will but cutting (straight lines) a passenger train, gluing it onto a long strip of paper and taking dictation about where the speeding train is going.



* we will be sorting by land, water, air transportation and then within each category creating graphs.



* we will be stamping with vehicle cookie cutters and sponges



* we will be creating a bus (scissors) and taking dictation about the bus.



* In the past we created a bus and added "windows" to make a pattern, blue, purple, blue, purple.



* Children can help you paint a big yellow paper (or even better a big box) and make a bus or other vehicle. They love to put their own pictures in the windows.



* we introduce skip counting (though they don't usually grasp it, they think it's fun to skip count and it starts the brain connections :-)) we use number of wheels on vehicles...so use a unicycle for 1 wheel, motorcycle for 2 wheels, vehicle with a "spare" on the back for 5 and a semi truck for 10.



* The children can create paper plate steering wheels and you can create a "road" in a large space or with sidewalk chalk outside and add basic concepts (letter, shape, number, color) that they drive around and when they pass over one they "beep-red" or "beep-5".



* children are going to make street signs and we are going to attach them to paper towel tubes/dowels and they will be able to use them in their play.



* We are going to make a traffic light...black rectangle, red, yellow, green circle lights. Younger ones are going to add corresponding colored glitter and the older ones are going to practice writing the words "stop, go, and slow". We'll also learn the song that goes along with it.



* children will help us make "parking lots" using concepts we want to review and they will use them in their play. This year I'll probably use random letters in the alphabet but one year we did individual "playing pieces- cars/trucks" and the letters of their name. They could take it home and "drive" the correct cars into the parking space with the matching letter and practice spelling their names.



I know those are all "craft" ideas but maybe something can be used as a jumping board. :-)
Try toddler-net: http://www.toddler-net.com/Games_art_cra鈥?/a> There is a school bus in art projects (collages). There is also a truck collage/coloring page in shapes worksheets. Any craft other than collage or coloring page will be too difficult for 2 y olds.
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