Stranger Danger Activities Printable

Stranger danger activities printables are a great resource for parents. Every child from the age of three could start developing stranger danger skills. I’ve been a foster parent for several years. One of the hardest things about being a foster parent is the uncertainty of what your foster child will face when the courts approve their reunification with their family. Will they end up back on the streets? Will they be constantly exposed to strangers? Will their family keep them safe?

One thing I do to deal with the feeling of uncertainty is educating our foster children. Teaching many different skills to each foster child helps me to work through my feelings of helplessness. When I get overwhelmed at the thought that I can no longer keep them safe, I think about the survival skills that we worked on together. Not realizing I was doing it, I would find a creative way to educate each child with a unique skill based on their history and developmental age.

For our foster children with a history of being malnourished, I would teach them how to buy and cook simple affordable meals. I also exposed them to the many places where free meals are provided. For the children that had a history of abuse, we taught about appropriate physical boundaries and what to do if someone was not respecting their boundaries. For the children that had been homeless, we sought out information on stranger danger activities and self-reliance skills.

Stranger Danger Activities Printable

This next story is a cherished memory as a foster parent. To protect this child’s identity, I’ll refer to him as Timothy. Timothy found a coloring book that a local pharmacy had given me. The coloring book was about helping kids know what to do if they were approached by a stranger.

He had a lot of questions about the book. After I answered his questions, we decided it might be fun to practice some of the things the coloring book taught. I pretended to be the stranger while Timothy and his sister tried to follow the examples in the book. They loved it! It seems that learning stranger danger skills helped them to feel empowered and safe. I also learned that acting it out was much more helpful than just talking about it.

In the coloring book, Stranger Danger Activities Printable, it illustrates that a child should hang onto their bike and don’t let go if a stranger is trying to kidnap them. Apparently, it is much harder to carry a child if they are carrying around a bike. The first three times we tried it, they didn’t hang on to the bike very well. After some practice, they held onto their bikes with death grips. I sure couldn’t have gotten them into my car easily and without someone noticing.

Danger is not exclusive to foster children. As a society, it’s all of our responsibility to protect children. Please teach and practice stranger danger skills with your children. There are other resources to aid in the protection of children’s safe such as tracking devices for children, an ID bracelet, fingerprint cards, and DNA kits.

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