Materials
Pictures cut from magazines Laminating machine or clear contact paper
Smiley faces and sad faces cut from cardboard
Instructions
1. Cut out and laminate pictures showing things that are safe and things that are not safe (for example, child falling off a bike, mother cooking in the kitchen, baby riding in a car seat). Place the happy and sad faces on a table, along with a pile of the laminated pictures.
2. Talk to the children about safety and about things to do and to remember in order to keep ourselves safe.
3. Let the children choose pictures and take turns placing them under the right face, safe ones under the happy face, unsafe ones under the sad face.
4. This is a good time to review general safety rules, as well as to teach the children about dialing 911 in case of a true emergency.More to doArt: The children can illustrate their own ideas of safe and unsafe activities and situations.
