Activities, quizzes and games

Check out your safety knowledge with capt's quizzes and activity sheets!  Or explore online safety games.

You can use them to help teach children about safety, stimulate discussions  with parents and carers, and help students and pre-registration carers think about key safety issues.  Let us know how you use them and we will pass on your ideas to others - just send us an email.

You can download the competitions, activity sheets and quizzes (as pdf files) and are free to copy and use them for non-commercial reasons. Just click on the titles below.
(You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to view the activity and quiz sheets.  You can download the software free from the Adobe website if it is not already installed on your computer.)

Activities for children and young people

It's fun to be safe! Spot the dangers and word scramble activities for children
How did you score? Answers to the quizzes above
Safety spaghetti puzzle
Check it out!  Activity for children aged 5 to 7
On the move!  Activity for children aged 5 to 7
Safety detective  Activity for children aged 7 to 11
Safety scramble  Activity for children aged 7 to 11
Chancing it  Activity for young people aged 11 plus
Imagine!  Activity for young people aged 11 plus

If you contact the Electrical Safety Council, an official sponsor of Child Safety Week 2008, they can send you:

Quizzes for parents and carers

Check it, don't chance it! Two quizzes for parents and carers
How did you score? Answers to the quizzes above
Fire safety
Quiz
Out of harm's way  Quiz (supported by Bitrex®)

One step ahead
  Quiz (supported by Bitrex®)
Hidden hazards  Word search
Kitchen safety Quiz (supported by Bitrex®)
Bathroom safety Quiz (supported by Bitrex®)
Garden safety Quiz
Safety in the hall, stairs and landing Quiz
Road safety quiz - under revision
Safety equipment word search
Toddling into trouble Quiz
Cycle helmets

Online safety games and activities

Links to online safety games and activities that you might like to try out and explore:

Get Fire Wise - the Department for Communities and Local Government fire safety website for children and young people
Hedgehogs - the Department for Transport's animated site for children, with cartoons and games
Arrive Alive - the Department for Transport's site for young road users, with quizzes to test safety knowledge
CycleSense - the Department for Transport site for older child cyclists, with tips and quizzes to test safety knowledge
Shore Thing - the RNLI's beach safety site for young people, with activities and games
Crucial Crews - an interactive site with hazardous scenarios to tackle 
Stay Wise - activities for children and young people
Home safety computer game from Streetwise in Bournemouth
Interactive games from Hazard Alley

Free factsheets

To find out more about childhood accidents, download our free factsheets.