Crossing the road game that teaches kids safety
Swivelhead is a free crossing the road game you play in your browser. You stand at the kerb and you turn your head to look — swipe the screen on a phone, or move the mouse. Look right. Look left. Look right again. Judge the gap. Cross.
It’s a road safety game for children learning to cross on their own, and for anyone who wants to practise somewhere a mistake costs nothing.
What makes it different
Most crossing games reward you for getting across. Swivelhead marks the decision instead. Step out into a gap that was never big enough and you lose marks even if nothing hit you — because that’s the habit that matters, and getting away with it once is exactly how a child learns the wrong lesson.
- Swipe, or move the mouse, to turn your head and really look
- Wait for a gap that’s genuinely long enough
- Cross when it’s safe, not when it’s nearly safe
Afterwards you’re told what you got right: did you look both ways, did you look again, and did you pick a real gap.
Left-hand and right-hand traffic
Roads work differently depending on where you live, and a game that teaches the wrong side is worse than no game at all. Swivelhead covers UK, US and Australian roads — including which way to look first, which changes the answer completely.
Good for schools and for home
No account, no chat, nothing to buy and nothing to install, so it works on a school laptop or a tablet at the kitchen table. Progress saves in the browser, and there’s no way for anyone to contact a child playing it.
It’s good practice, but it isn’t a substitute for being taught on a real road with an adult.
When they’re ready for the driver’s seat
Wheelabout puts you behind the wheel on the same roads: roundabouts, traffic lights and the turn across oncoming traffic, marked the way a driving test marks you.