You will need:

• a shoe box for each child
• a sheet of black construction paper for each child
• one circle of red, yellow and green paper for each child
• white glue
• children's scissors
• black or brown paint and paint brushes at a painting station Recipe Link

What to do:

• pre-cut the black background paper to fit inside the shoe box or let older children do this themselves
• pre-cut circles of the same size (ensuring they fit inside the box) from red, yellow and green paper (older children may like to do this for themselves)
• glue the black paper inside the shoe box first
• glue the circles onto the black paper like traffic lights, ie. red then yellow then green
• paint the outside of the box black or brown (optional)
• label work and clean up
• lights could become part of a practise road for crossing streets and obeying lights