Safety Rules Worksheet: Identify Right and Wrong Actions!
Deciding whether a pictured action is safe or unsafe and coloring the matching circle teaches children ages 3-5 to reason about cause and effect in everyday safety situations, building judgment skills that extend beyond the worksheet itself. Using a simple green-for-safe, red-for-unsafe color code also reinforces a color association many children will later see on real traffic signals and safety signs.
Curriculum
How to use this worksheet
Look at the first picture together and talk about what is happening in the scene. Ask your child whether the action shown is safe or unsafe, then have them color the circle green if it's a safe action or red if it's unsafe. Continue through each remaining picture, encouraging your child to explain their reasoning before coloring.
Materials needed
- Pencil
- Green crayon
- Red crayon
Extension activities
- •Discuss each picture in more detail, talking through why the action is safe or unsafe.
- •Make up new safety scenarios together and ask your child to judge each one.
- •Role-play safe behaviors, like crossing the street or buckling a seatbelt.
- •Create a simple home safety checklist together, walking through each room.
- •Read a book about safety rules and compare its lessons to the worksheet.
Tips for parents and teachers
Watch for your child coloring quickly without truly reasoning through each scenario, and pause to ask them to explain their choice if this happens. Use the worksheet as a natural opening to talk through real safety rules relevant to your family's daily life. Praise thoughtful explanations as much as correct color choices.
Written by
Hemsweta Jain · Teacher Cheena
MBA and Early Childhood Educator, teaching since 2014 · Founder of RaisoActive, Mumbai
Every RaisoActive worksheet is designed and checked by the founder before publishing.
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