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Health and safety skills
Activities and Strategies
for Development
Fire Safety
Read and discuss with your child a book about fire safety such as Arthur’s Fire
Drill by Marc Brown or Clifford The Firehouse Dog by Norman Bridwell.
If you have access to the internet, you can visit “Sparky the Fire Dog” at
www.sparky.org. This website is produced by the National Fire Protection
Association and gives tips about fire safety for parents and children.
Good Night, Baby
Play with your child with a doll or stuffed animal.
Say that the doll looks tired and ask your child what to do.
As you and your child put the doll to sleep ask your child if the baby is cold and
needs to cover up with a blanket.
Encourage your child to read the doll a book or sing a song to help it settle down
and go to sleep.
Most of all, have fun pretending!
Three Like Me
Gather photos of your child at different ages.
Show the pictures to your child and discuss how old he was in each one. Try to
find pictures when he was a baby and now. Talk about things he can do now that
he could not do before.
Name some friends who are three years old.
Show your child how to hold up three fingers and answer “three” when someone
asks “How old are you?”