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Draw a route from school to home: safe plan, diagram, map
Try drawing a route from school to home with your child. This fun activity will help him prepare for unaccompanied hikes on his own.
How to draw a plan with a diagram
For work, prepare a drawing paper, a ruler, sharpen pencils. To make it easier, grab a map or open the google maps app.
You can draw a route from school to home with your child.
Here are the step-by-step instructions on how to work:
- Draw a frame on the sheet. In its center, draw the main road in a wide stripe, and adjacent roads in thin stripes. Draw rectangles all the houses, one of which is yours.
- In the upper corner of the picture, sketch out the school building and the schoolyard.
- Use a different color pencil to draw the footpaths.
- Mark your home and school with crosses. Connect the ends of the route with a dotted line.
- Mark zebras and traffic lights in your child’s path where he will cross the road.
- Draw all the other objects that the child passes by – parks, supermarkets, office buildings, etc.
- Sign all items in clear, large letters.
If you wish, you can decorate the drawing to make the baby more interesting.
Helpful Tips for Drawing a Safe Card
Here are a few more things to consider:
- If you can get to the school in several different ways, choose the safest option, that is, one with a less congested road, no dark alleys, etc.
- For symbols, you can use not only common icons, but also those that your child imagines. So it will be easier for him to remember how the map is arranged, what is located and where.
- Particularly dangerous zones on the route can be highlighted in red and marked with the word “danger”. For example, this can be used to designate abandoned houses, construction sites and other similar places.
- At least once, walk with your child along the traced route, armed with your drawing. You can also cut a man out of paper and guide him through the drawing, playing a role-playing game.
- Turn the process of drawing a route into a game. The child should be interested so that he does not perceive this task as a routine assignment.
Be sure to check if your child knows the pedestrian traffic rules before letting them go along the drawn route for the first time. He must clearly know which traffic signal to cross the road to, what to do if the traffic light does not work, etc.
Hang the drawing in a prominent place for your child to remember. Let the safest way home be imprinted in his mind.