Child Safety Week | EYFS & KS1 Activity Ideas

**Note: This page is for educational inspiration and is not officially affiliated with Child Safety Week. Child Safety Week is an annual campaign run by Child Accident Prevention Trust (CAPT), a UK charity dedicated to reducing the number of children and young people killed, disabled, or seriously injured in accidents. The week takes place in June each year and aims to raise awareness of the risks of child accidents and how they can be prevented. It provides a focus for local and national activities, promoting safety messages in an accessible way for families, communities, and professionals. For official information, themes, and resources, please visit the Child Accident Prevention Trust (CAPT) website: www.capt.org.uk/child-safety-week/.

Monday 1st - Sunday 7th June 2026

Understanding Child Safety Week in EYFS & KS1

Let's learn how to stay safe and sound during Child Safety Week! 🛡️🚦🏠

For early years settings, nurseries, preschools, childminders, and Year 1 and Year 2 classrooms, this week provides a crucial and practical theme for exploring personal safety, health and well-being, road safety, home safety, healthy habits (food, hygiene, teeth), emotions, physical development, and understanding the world (safety rules). It's about empowering children with knowledge, building responsible behaviours, and helping them understand how to make safe choices in different environments. This week offers fantastic planning ideas and inspiration for engaging activities & invitations that truly resonate with young minds, making learning about safety wonderfully empowering!

Why Is Learning About Child Safety Valuable for Young Children?

Integrating Child Safety Week and themes of safety and well-being into your practice with young children (aged 0-7) is incredibly important for fostering self-awareness, responsible behaviour, and foundational life skills.

• Empowers Children: Gives children the knowledge and confidence to identify risks and make safer choices.

• Prevents Accidents: Directly teaches practical ways to avoid common childhood accidents.

• Builds Awareness of Risks: Helps children understand potential dangers in various environments (home, road, outdoors).

• Promotes Healthy Habits: Reinforces the importance of good hygiene, healthy eating, and physical activity for overall well-being.

• Develops Self-Care Skills: Teaches children how to look after themselves and seek help when needed.

• Fosters Responsibility: Encourages children to be mindful of their actions and their impact on their own safety and others'.

• Supports Social-Emotional Learning: Helps children understand how to manage emotions related to safety and seek comfort or assistance.

Engaging Safety & Health Activities for Child Safety Week (EYFS & KS1)

Let's explore ways to stay safe, healthy and well during Child Safety Week with these planning ideas, provision enhancements and learning opportunities for EYFS and KS1 children. The focus is on building awareness, confidence and practical life skills through play, discussion, role-play and everyday experiences.

Many of these early years and year 1 activities can be supported by our dedicated ‘Road Safety’, ‘Sun Safety’, ‘Food’, ‘Medicine’, ‘Handwashing & Hygiene’, ‘Teeth & Oral Health’, ‘Eye Health’, ‘Mental Health’ and ‘Safeguarding’ resources.

Many of these early years and year 1 activities can be supported by our dedicated ‘Road Safety’, ‘Sun Safety’, ‘Food’, ‘Medicine’, ‘Handwashing & Hygiene’, ‘Teeth & Oral Health’, ‘Eye Health’, ‘Mental Health’, and ‘Safeguarding’ resources.

Here’s some inspiration for celebrating Child Safety Week in your setting. The following ideas may be adapted for various EYFS and KS1 settings. In EYFS, these ideas are best viewed as opportunities to develop understanding through play, conversation, role-play and carefully considered provision enhancements. Practitioners may choose to follow children's interests and real-life experiences, using these resources flexibly. In KS1, some ideas may also be used within more structured teaching sequences where appropriate.

(Please use your own discretion and knowledge of your children to ensure appropriateness of each activity or enhancement and safety concerning any materials given and activity undertaken. The emphasis should remain on empowering children with positive safety messages rather than creating fear or anxiety.)

🏡 Personal Safety, Health & Looking After Ourselves

Child Safety Week provides opportunities to explore how we keep ourselves safe, healthy and cared for in everyday life.

Children might:

• Discuss who helps us when we are hurt, unwell or worried.

• Learn about doctors, dentists, nurses and other people who help keep us healthy.

• Explore simple first-aid concepts through role-play.

• Develop understanding of body care, personal hygiene and healthy habits.

• Talk about when and how to ask for help.

Our medical, human body and health-related resources can help support these conversations and investigations.

Additional Provision Enhancements

• Create a doctor's surgery or health centre role-play area.

• Add bandages, clipboards, appointment books and medical props to role-play provision.

• Invite a healthcare professional to visit the setting (where possible).

• Explore simple first-aid demonstrations suitable for young children.

• Create a "People Who Help Us" investigation area.

• Encourage children to care for dolls and soft toys.

🦷 Hygiene, Teeth & Healthy Habits

Developing healthy routines helps children understand how to care for their bodies and maintain wellbeing.

Children might:

• Learn about handwashing and why it matters.

• Explore healthy food choices.

• Discover how to care for their teeth.

• Talk about daily routines that help keep them healthy.

• Investigate how germs spread through simple experiments.

Our hygiene, oral health and healthy living resources can support these learning opportunities.

Additional Provision Enhancements

• Create a toothbrushing station in role-play.

• Use glitter or paint activities to demonstrate handwashing.

• Explore healthy and less healthy food choices through sorting games.

• Add toothbrushes, timers and mirrors to provision.

• Encourage children to create healthy meal ideas.

• Use stories that promote healthy habits.

🚦 Road Safety & Staying Safe Outdoors

Children benefit from developing an awareness of how to stay safe when travelling, exploring and playing outdoors.

Children might:

• Learn simple road safety messages.

• Explore different forms of transport.

• Recognise common road signs.

• Practise safe crossing behaviours through role-play.

• Discuss how adults help keep children safe in different situations.

Our road safety and transport resources can help support these experiences.

Additional Provision Enhancements

• Create a road safety role-play area outdoors.

• Add road signs, bikes and scooters to provision.

• Use chalk to create roads, crossings and traffic systems.

• Go on a local walk to spot road signs and safety features.

• Create maps of familiar journeys.

• Explore transport-themed small world play.

🥗 Food Safety, Healthy Eating & Looking After Our Bodies

Child Safety Week offers opportunities to discuss how healthy choices help us grow, learn and stay well.

Children might:

• Explore different fruits and vegetables.

• Learn about balanced meals.

• Discuss where food comes from.

• Develop awareness of healthy food choices.

• Explore food preparation through role-play and practical activities.

Our healthy eating, food and nutrition resources can help support these discussions.

Additional Provision Enhancements

• Set up a farm shop, café or supermarket role-play area.

• Prepare simple healthy snacks together.

• Explore food sorting and classification activities.

• Plant herbs, vegetables or salad crops.

• Create healthy meal collages.

• Use real fruit and vegetables in investigation areas.

☀️ Sun Safety & Outdoor Wellbeing

Warm weather provides opportunities to discuss how we can enjoy outdoor play safely.

Children might:

• Learn why we wear hats and use shade.

• Explore the importance of drinking water.

• Discuss how weather affects our bodies.

• Learn simple ways to stay safe in the sun.

• Observe how the sun changes throughout the day.

Our sun safety and weather resources can help support these conversations.

Additional Provision Enhancements

• Create a sun safety station outdoors.

• Explore shade and shadow investigations.

• Encourage regular water breaks during outdoor play.

• Compare sunny and shaded areas.

• Provide hats and sun-safety role-play props.

• Use UV-sensitive materials where available.

❤️ Emotional Wellbeing & Feeling Safe

Feeling safe emotionally is an important part of children's overall wellbeing.

Children might:

• Explore different emotions and feelings.

• Discuss trusted adults and support networks.

• Learn strategies for calming down and self-regulation.

• Practise kindness, empathy and friendship skills.

• Explore how to seek help when needed.

Our emotions, mental health and kindness resources can help support these discussions.

Additional Provision Enhancements

• Create a wellbeing or calm corner.

• Use emotion cards and mirrors.

• Introduce mindfulness and relaxation activities.

• Create kindness challenges.

• Use stories to explore feelings and relationships.

• Encourage children to identify trusted adults.

🌱 Building Independence & Safe Decision Making

As children grow, they gradually develop skills that help them make safe choices.

Children might:

• Practise managing simple risks in play.

• Learn how to solve problems with support.

• Explore independence in daily routines.

• Develop confidence in asking for help.

• Discuss what to do in unfamiliar situations.

Additional Provision Enhancements

• Encourage children to assess manageable risks during outdoor play.

• Create simple problem-solving challenges.

• Support independence with dressing, tidying and self-care routines.

• Use stories that explore making choices.

• Discuss real-life scenarios through role-play.

🔍 Explore More

To explore our extensive collection of health, wellbeing and safety resources, please visit our pages covering:

Medicine • The Human Body • Exercise • Handwashing & Hygiene • Eye Health • Teeth & Oral Health • Food (Fruit & Vegetables and Balanced Diet) • Mental Health • Sun Safety • Road Safety • Science • EYFS Framework (Safeguarding)

You may also like to explore related themes such as:

Clothes • Emotions And Feelings • Exercise • Expressive Movement • Fireworks • Football • Kindness And Friendship • Medicine: Doctors And Nurses • Out And About • Sport And PE Games • Stay Healthy • Stay Safe

These ideas and provision enhancements offer meaningful ways to celebrate Child Safety Week in EYFS and KS1 settings. By helping children develop awareness, confidence, resilience and healthy habits, practitioners can support them to navigate the world safely while continuing to explore, play and learn with confidence.

To explore ideas surrounding additional early years events, please visit our 'Special Dates Calendar' page.

Printable resources to support teaching & learning surrounding: ‘Child Safety Week’

Free ‘Health’ and ‘Safety’ resources for EYFS & KS1:

The following is a small selection of our inspirational ‘Health’ and ‘Safety’ resources for EYFS & KS1:

(Please visit our ‘Medicine’, ‘The Human Body’, ‘Exercise’, ‘Handwashing & Hygiene’, ‘Eye Health’, ‘Teeth & Oral Health’, ‘Food’ (Fruit & Vegetables plus Balanced Diet), ‘Mental Health’, ‘Sun Safety’, ‘Road Safety’, ‘Science’ or ‘EYFS Framework’ (Safeguarding) pages to explore our extensive catalogue of Health and Safety resources.)

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Disclaimer:
This page is for educational purposes only and is intended to support early years and primary practitioners with ideas and resources related to 'Child Safety Week'. We are not officially affiliated with or endorsed by Child Accident Prevention Trust (CAPT), who run this annual campaign. We do not claim any rights to specific trademarks or official materials associated with this event. For official information, themes, and resources, please visit the Child Accident Prevention Trust (CAPT) website: www.capt.org.uk/child-safety-week/.