Games & Activities on Safety for Children

Children are naturally active and curious. Therefore teaching them about safety should start at a young age. There are several degrees of safety education which include fire safety, stranger safety and everyday safety such as wearing a helmet and knee pads. Focus on the positive aspect, versus negative, of respecting safety to help children remember how to respond instead of becoming scared.

  1. Activity Book

    • Design your own activity book for children or use printable downloads from the U.S. Fire Administration to create a book filled with coloring pages, mazes and word searches designed to discuss safety. Younger children may enjoy reading about fire safety such as No Dragon's for Tea: Fire Safety for Kids (and Dragons) by Jean Pendziwol, and talking about it afterward. Younger children learn well by seeing, doing and answering questions related to books and pictures.

    Bike Race Day

    • Invite children to bring their bikes, tricycles or big wheels to school to participate in a bike for safety. Prior to the day have the children make poster signs to hang up around the school to promote wearing helmets and padding when riding a bike. On the day of the bike race let the children ride around the school and stop in on the main offices or participating classrooms and have the children explain the importance of safety to other students.

    Scavenger Hunt

    • Scavenger hunts are a entertaining way for children to work off energy while learning about safety. Print pictures of various safety related items such as policemen, firemen, handcuffs, fire hats and smoke and hide them around a room or outside. Have the children run around collecting safety related pictures. Discuss the pictures after the children find them. Another scavenger hunt for children includes having the children walk around a building and finding smoke detectors, sprinklers, exit signs and emergency handles. Explain what these items are and how they are used in an emergency.

    Role Play

    • Set up a fire route in your home or school for children to role play a scenario involving fire. Create an alarm to act as the drill and have the children stop, drop and crawl to the nearest exit. Talk with the children about what steps you are taking as you role play the scene. Teach the children about stranger danger by having the children role play with each other - one can be the stranger, one the child and the teacher is the police officer. Tell children what they should and should not do when the safety concern involves strangers.

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