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Safety with Radar - Activity Book

Cover page of Health Canada's Safety with Radar Activity Book

2008
ISBN: 978-0-662-05621-8
Cat. No.: H128-1/08-527
HC Pub.: 4525

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Table of Contents

Bathroom Safety

Radar, Health Canada's mascot for injury prevention

Radar safety tips

  • Turn cold water on first
  • Turn hot water off first
  • Never use a hair dryer or radio near water

Complete the words.

Bathroom Safety Crossword Puzzle (long description available)

Playground Safety

Radar, Health Canada's mascot for injury prevention

Radar safety tips

  • Never tie ropes and skipping ropes to slides and swings
  • Wear jackets and hats that do not have strings
  • Use a neck warmer instead of a scarf
  • Take your bike helmet off before playing on the playground

Help Radar find his way to the finish line!

Playground Safety Maze (long description available)

Fire Safety

Radar, Health Canada's mascot for injury prevention

Radar safety tips

  • Plan and practice a fire escape route from your home
  • If you see smoke, stay low to the ground
  • Never play with lighters, matches and candles

Help Radar plan a fire escape route from his apartment

Mark 2 ways out of each room.

Fire Safety Activity (long description available)

If your clothes catch fire

  1. Stop
  2. Drop
  3. Roll
If your clothes catch fire, Stop, Drop and Roll (long description available)

Use the space below to create your home fire escape plan

  • Draw a floor plan or a map of your home. Show all doors and windows.
  • Mark two (2) ways out of each room.
  • Pick a family meeting place outside where everyone can meet.
  • Mark all of the smoke alarms with Smoke alarm symbol. Smoke alarms should be in each sleeping room, outside each sleeping area, and on every level of the home.
Graph paper showing symbols for smoke alarms, windows, and doors

Ride Your Bike Safely!

Radar, Health Canada's mascot for injury prevention

Radar safety tips

  • Always wear a bike helmet
  • Slow down!
  • Learn hand signals and obey road signs
  • Tell an adult where you are going before you leave

  • In-line skating and skateboarding:
    • Always wear a helmet
    • Wear wrist guards, knee pads and elbow pads
    • Choose a safe location, away from busy streets
    • Do not wear headphones
    • Do not skate at night or when the road is wet
Hand signals to use while biking - Right, Stop, and Left (long description available)

Child bicycling while using hand signal for turning right.  Child skateboarding while wearing a helmet, wrist guards, knee pads and elbow pads Child inline skating while wearing a helmet, wrist guards, knee pads and elbow pads

Find the 6 differences between the 2 illustrations.

Spot the difference game - first complete picture. Younger child wearing a helmet, knee pads and elbow pads while standing beside her bike with an older child.Spot the difference game - second picture with slight changes. Younger child wearing a helmet, knee pads and elbow pads while standing beside her bike with an older child.

Know the Symbols

Radar, Health Canada's mascot for injury prevention

Radar safety tips

  • Symbols mean DANGER! DO NOT TOUCH!
  • Check the labels for hazard symbols
  • Ask an adult to put the containers high and out of reach

Find the 4 hazard symbols hidden somewhere in this box.

Hidden symbol game (long description available)

Bring Safety Into Play!

Find the words listed below: Use the bold letters to spell the secret word

Safety word find game with Secret Word hidden in bold letters
Silhouette of Radar, Health Canada's mascot for injury prevention, and 5 blank spaces to fill in the Secret Word from the Safety word find game.
  • CAUTION
  • DETECTOR
  • EXPLOSIVE
  • FIRE
  • FLAMMABLE
  • HAZARD
  • HELMET
  • POISON
  • SAFETY
  • SMOKE
  • TOYS

Winter Safety

Radar, Health Canada's mascot for injury prevention

Radar safety tips

  • Wear a helmet when sledding and skating
  • Wear a neck warmer instead of a scarf
  • Wear jackets and hats that do not have strings
  • When sledding, slide down the middle of the hill and climb back up along the sides
  • When sledding, move out of the way when at the bottom of the hill
Children building a snowman with an adult in the winter. Children skating and sledding with an adult while wearing helmets in the winter.

Swimming Pool Safety

Radar, Health Canada's mascot for injury prevention

Radar safety tips

  • Keep the gate locked at all times
  • Only swim when an adult can watch you
  • Wear sunscreen

Pick out the blocks and complete the sentence

Swimming Pool Safety hidden code game (long description available)

Toys and Safety

Radar, Health Canada's mascot for injury prevention

Radar safety tips

  • Keep toys with small parts away from children under 3 years old
  • Put your toys away when you are finished playing with them

Connect the dots to find 3 toys

Toys and Safety connect the dots game

Circle 10 safety hazards and write them down

Find the safety hazards game part 1. Safety hazards shown are a blaring fire alarm, poisonous and corrosive containers in the garbage, radio plugged in beside a sink filled with water, stove-top fire, child falling off a stool, a man about to step on a ball on the floor, and a puddle of liquid on the floor.
Find the safety hazards game part 2. Safety hazards shown are broken glass bottle, a girl bicycling without a helmet, and a boy petting a strange dog.

Can you put your toys away?

Toy safety maze.  Put the toys in the toybox.

Safety Link Game

Link the Safety Tips to the illustrations

  1. Learn hand signals and obey road signs.
  2. Wear a helmet when sledding or skating.
  3. Take your bike helmet off before playing on the playground.
  4. When skateboarding, choose a safe location, away from busy streets.
Girl at a playground with her bike and helmet in the background Boy skateboarding at a bicycle bath
2 children skating with their helmets on. Children bicycling and inline skating on a bicycle path, using hand signals and obeying a road sign.