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Description

Hop between islands as you test your water safety knowledge. You’ll have to listen carefully if you want to win!

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Resources

Dice
Hula hoops, or something to create markings on the floor

Instructions

Before you begin
Use create four lines of circles that meet in the middle (just like a plus sign). Make sure each side has the same number of circles. Each circle should be big enough for a young person or two to stand in.
You can use anything you have to hand to make the plus: tape sheets of newspaper down in place of circles, use hula hoops, spots on the floor etc.

The person leading the activity should explain that it’s important to be SAFE around water. SAFE can stay for ‘stay away from (the) edge’. Everyone should repeat this message until they remember it.
Explain how easily things can go wrong around water, especially outdoors, even if you are a very good swimmer.
Outdoor water often has currents and can be dangerous.
There usually isn't any ladders like in a swimming pool and the sides of outdoor water sources are very slippery and hard to get out of.

Play the game
Everyone should split into four teams.
Each team should stand at a different end of the circle cross. Each circle is an island.
The first player in each team should stand in the first island.
The first players should take it in turns to roll a dice. The first person to roll an even number goes first.
The person leading the activity should ask a question about water safety from the ‘Water safety questions and answers’ sheet.
The player should answer. If they answer correctly, they should move forward one island and bring a teammate onto their island with them. (The answers on the sheet are just for guidance – it’s up to the person leading the activity whether people’s answers are close enough.)
If they get it wrong, their whole team has to swim back to the beginning.
Teams should take it in turns to repeat steps five to seven.
The first team to get everyone to the middle where the islands meet is the winner.

Tags

• game
• safety
• Water safety

Badge Links

• Safety - Water Safety Code