Related activities: 

• Learn a little something about each place visited, like language (how to say "walk to school"), religions, music, wildlife, oceans, dress, food, movies, etc. 
• Link with classroom curriculum in geography, history, math, art and music.
• Use greeting stations along the route. 
• Set kilometer goals for walking around the world.
• Start your walk in your country and choose another country participating in International Walk to School to visit each week.  Calculate the distance.
• Use the month to kick off walking the world for the rest of the school year.  Assign a kilometer amount to each student for each time they walk to school and use this to calculate the distance the school has walked.  Place a map in the school hallway to track progress.
• Give away prizes like globes, atlases and books about the countries.

Thanks to:  Canada's Greenest City & Way to Go!

Safety

Related activities:

• Incorporate Fire Safety Week activities
• Choose a different safety theme for each week.  Include neighborhood watch and block parents.

Thanks to: Canada's Greenest City & Way to Go!

Spread the word!  Promote walking to all community members.

Related activities: 

• Students write postcards to a local radio station describing reasons they walk to school.  Arrange ahead of time for the radio station to read the mail on the air.
• Conduct a survey of how students get to school and publish results in school newsletter or local newspaper.

Thanks to:  UK’s Young TransNet

Walking to school is cool. 

Related activities:

• Students send invitations to local officials asking them to participate in International Walk to School.
• Make a “golden shoe” from an old sneaker and present it to the classroom with the most participants.
• Organize a cleanest, shiniest shoe or boot (if it rains) parade.
• Design badges or hats to wear during the month.
• Students create and sign a Walk to School pledge.
• Have an assembly with songs or poems about walking to school (see www.walktoschool.org.uk).
• Host passport stamping stations along walking routes.

Thanks to:  UK’s Dorset County Council Road Safety Team & Borough of Poole TRAVELWISE Team

Contests

Longest Walking School Bus.   Which school has the most participants?  Could be organized on any level like city or country. 

Thanks to:  Canada's Greenest City & Way to Go!

Best Routes to School.  Use neighborhood walkabouts, walkability surveys, parent/student surveys and mapping exercises. 

Thanks to:  Canada's Greenest City & Way to Go!

Best Ideas for Getting Your Parents to Walk to School with You. 

Thanks to:  UK’s Dorset County Council Road Safety Team & Borough of Poole TRAVELWISE Team

More Activities

• Use disposable cameras to record hazards on the walk to school.  Present pictures to local officials to campaign for safety improvements.
• Invite family and neighbors to participate.
• Design a banner to hang outside the school or to be carried while walking to school.
• Close the school parking lot for a day and organize locations for drivers to park and walk.  Ask local businesses for permission to use their parking lots for the day.
• Place symbols on routes.  Children mark them in their own logbook.
• Walkers write a diary entry each day to record what they saw or what their walk was like.
• Draw a hopscotch on a common walking route.
• Serve breakfast to walkers.   Ask local grocery stores or restaurants to donate food.
• Plant a tree in conjunction with walk.
• Print a “Can you spot?” sheet for children to note what they see along the route.  See www.walktoschool.org.uk.
• Assign a color for walkers to wear depending on whether they come from the north, east, south or west. 

Thanks to:  UK’s Dorset County Council Road Safety Team & Borough of Poole TRAVELWISE Team

• Play a walking game:  Use three flags: red (to indicate stopping), yellow (walk carefully and watch surroundings) or green (walk).  The walk leader raises different flags that the children must follow.
• Teach road safety using games.  See the pdf (INSERT PDF from France)

Thanks to:  France’s Association Foch Sécurité Routière

Many other websites have additional ideas. 

See:

United Kingdom Walk to School: www.walktoschool.org.uk
Canada Go For Green: www.goforgreen.ca/walktoschool
Canada Active and Safe Routes to School: www.saferoutestoschool.ca
United States Walk to School: www.walktoschool.org