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.)
Streetsmart kids Design a road safety poster.
It's fun to be safe! (2008) Spot the dangers and word scramble activities for children
It's fun to be safe! (2007) Spot the dangers and word scramble activities for children. Answers to these quizzes.
Check it out! 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
For more brain teasers, try our Child Safety Week quizzes and competitions!
If you contact the Electrical Safety Council, an official sponsor of Child Safety Week 2008, they can send you:
Growing kids Quiz for parents and carers of children aged five to eleven
Child's eye view Quiz for parents and carers of babies and children under five
Safety challenge! Solve this crossword
Check it, don't chance it! Two quizzes for parents and carers. Answers to these quizzes
Out of harm's way Quiz
One step ahead Quiz
Hidden hazards Word search
Kitchen safety Quiz
Bathroom safety Quiz
Garden safety Quiz
Safety in the hall, stairs and landing Quiz
For more brain teasers, try our Child Safety Week quizzes and competitions!
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.
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
To find out more about childhood accidents, visit our new safety advice section.