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Activity Four
(ages 8 - 10)

Key points

Establishing strategies for children
to keep themselves and others safer.

Before you begin the activity

  1. You may need to adapt the activity page Keeping Yourself and Others Safer to make it suit your family situation. For example, if your child does not have brothers or sisters, you could change brother / sister to cousin, friend etc. Think of two other scenarios appropriate to your child's situation and environment. Write these in the empty spaces provided.
  2. Print off the page Choices We Can Make and use it to help with the activity.

Activity

Tell your child that today you are going to discuss what he or she could do to keep safe or make someone else safer. Explain that the activity sheet Keeping Ourselves and Others Safer has situations that they might find themselves in at some time. Talk about what your child could do in the situation, immediately and then later on. Discuss possible outcomes that could result from these actions. The activity sheet has some ideas for keeping safer listed in Choices We Can Make. Ask your child to choose one or more of these for each situation.

When you have finished the activity

Put your completed activity sheet on display as agreed between you.

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