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Home safety

Home safety

1.  

**Show how to do the following safely:
– Make a hot drink.
– Switch an electrical appliance on and off, such as a hairdryer, TV or CD-player.

**Know how to fill a bath safely.

2.  

**Study a room in your house looking for possible dangers. Draw a picture of the room showing the dangers. Think about the following:
– electrical sockets and plugs
– trailing and damaged wires
– clothes
– toys
– electrical equipment
– windows
– doors
– furniture
– floor coverings.

**Explain why you think they may be dangerous and how to make the room safer. Know what needs to be done, and who should do it.

3. 

**Make up a game or activity to help other Brownies learn how the following could be a danger to young children.
– Plastic bags.
– Medicines and pills left within reach.
– Scissors, knives, needles and pins, tins.
– Chemicals like cleaning fluids and disinfectants.

**Know how to reduce these dangers.

4.   Explain how and when to call the emergency services. Know how to use a household, mobile and public telephone in an emergency.

5.  

**Give the name, address and telephone number of a relative or neighbour who could help in an emergency.

**Know where there is a working torch for use in an emergency, for example in a power cut.

**Know how to contact your family doctor in an emergency.

Need help? Why not try playing the Home Safety Game?

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