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 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.)
Quizzes and competitions are a great way to engage parents and children, helping them to learn whilst having fun. Here are some quizzes to get you started. More coming soon…
The word is safety word search competition
We can work it out - together! multiple choice quiz
The bitter sweet truth multiple choice competition
Check it don’t chance it - quiz for parents and carers
Safe days out and about - quiz for parents and carers
Kitchen safety - quiz for parents and carers
Safety challenge - safety crossword for parents and carers
Fifi in the garden - colouring in sheet for children
Looking out for each other - spot the difference quiz
Kids poster competition - for great prizes!
Spit it out - fantastic poster competition for great prizes
It’s fun to be safe (cycling)! - colouring in and word scramble
It’s fun to be safe (roads)! - colouring in and word scramble
Liar liar, fire - fire quiz for children
Safety detective - word scramble
Check it out - colouring in - crossing the road
Links to online safety games and activities that you might like to try out and explore:
Survivor! – Practise escaping safely from a burning home.
Switched on Kids – the Electrical Safety Council’s website for children, where you can search for hazards in a virtual house, play games and test your knowledge of electricity.
Visit a fire station – Here you can play interactive games, hear stories and watch animations to find out more about fire safety in your own home.
3M Streetwise – road safety activities for children.
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
If you contact the Electrical Safety Council, an official sponsor of Child Safety Week 2009, they can send you: