
Traffic Light
Skills:
Physical: upper and lower limb coordination, reaction time, gross motor skill, balance
Cognitive: sustained attention, selective attention, auditory processing
Social: awareness of personal space
Number of participants:
2 or more
Equipment:
none
Description:
- children pretend to be vehicles responding to the colour of the traffic signal (eg. green = skip in free space, amber = hop on spot, red = stork stand)
Modifications to make the activity easier:
Change the environment: have the child hold onto a parent or adult during the activity to decrease physical demand
Change the task: change the requirements of amber light to mean touch your toes and red light to mean stand on one foot to decrease physical demand
Modifications to make the activity harder:
Change the environment: have child complete the activity close to another child to increase physical and social demand
Change the task: have the child alternate feet every time they have to hop on the spot or hold a stork stand to increase physical and cognitive demand
Goal examples:
- the child is able to hop 5 times on the spot, marked with tape on the ground
- I can follow along with the traffic signals