Risk Watch: Make Time for Safety

Risk Watch Bookmarks
Grades 1-2

Objective

Students will be able to illustrate safety messages learned in the Risk Watch program.

Core Subject Integration

Materials

Procedure

Give each student a plain business-size envelope.
Have him/her cut off the lower corners in a rounded or scalloped fashion, making sure the straight edges of each bookmark are at least 2" long.
Have students draw a Risk Watch safety scene on each bookmark and write the correlating safety message on the back. Students can slip bookmarks over the top right- or left-hand corners of book pages.

Expand this lesson!

Encourage the children to read a book on safety. Here are a few
suggestions:

Ages 4-8

"Pedal Power" by Judy Delton
" No Dragons for Tea: Fire Safety for Kids" by Jean Pendziwol
" Hang On, Hopper!" by Marcus Pfister

Ages 9-12

"Fire Drill Practice at the Luv-N-Hugs Day Care" by Sherri K.
Goehring
" Hatchet" by Gary Paulsen
" Island of the Blue Dolphins" by Scott O'Dell