The Badge Archive

The 1984 Daisy Girl Scout Leaders’ Guide book offers suggestions on activities that promote safety. These work for anyone in Kinder to 3rd grade.

Fire Escapes

• Find out where the fire escape routs are in your meeting place. Practice using them. Practice using an alternative route if the main one is blocked. Hype it up with role play and pretend emergency situations.

Emergency Phone Calls

• Toy phone is perfect if you have one. Or print one on paper.
• Scouts practice dialing the operator, 911, or other emergency number and role play an emergency scenario.
• A hat, bucket, or jar, with different emergency situations could be made. Scouts pull a slip of paper out with their emergency either written or drawn on the paper and then call the correct place and role play the call with a leader as the operator.
• Scouts should have their own name, their parent’s names, address, and phone number memorized to provide to the emergency operator.

Fire Fighter or Police Guest Speaker

• Many Fire Stations and Police Stations have a program for a visit from the Fire Fighters and/or Police at the meeting location if a field trip to the station is not possible. Talk to your local station for what that visit would require and what would be taught so you can supplement it as needed to fill up the meeting time.
• If you are working on a specific badge or award – like Daisy Safety Pin – request a head of time what you need the guest speaker to do – like teach Stop Drop and Roll for the Safety Pin requirement.

Bicycle Safety

• If everyone can bring a bike to use on a bike trail, great. If not, bring one to teach them about bicycles and how to stay safe.
• Talk about rules of the road, safety equipment, how to check the bike to make sure it’s in good working condition.

Crossing Streets

• Talk about how to cross streets safely, with or without a crossing guard.
• Set up traffic lights from construction paper and walk/don’t walk lights. Role play navigating through the lights and crossings in the meeting room so they recognize the signals and can act appropriately if you took them out in the city.

Phone Etiquette

• Learn how to answer the phone correctly (Speak up when answering, don’t just remain silent after answering the call).
• Learn when not to answer the calls (like when home alone).
• Talk about what is okay to share on the phone (like stories of how they have been doing with relatives) and what is not (like their personal information, birthdays, etc. to strangers).

Stranger Danger

• Learn do’s and don’ts of talking to strangers
  • If a stranger pulls up in a car and tries to talk to you – Do tell a stranger you will get your parent/leader. Don’t stand close to the car or get in the car.
  • If a stranger talks to you in a rest room – Do have a buddy and make sure an adult is nearby. Don’t play or talk to strangers in the rest room.
  • If a stranger talks to you in an elevator – Do have a buddy and go to your correct floor. Don’t play in the elevator, ride alone, or follow a stranger to their floor.
  • If a stranger talks to you on a play ground or area – Do play where the adult supervising you can see you, with good lighting. Don’t play after dark, leave the area without your adult, or play in construction/abandoned areas.
  • If a stranger rings the door bell, or knocks on your front door – Do get an adult. Don’t open the door or talk to them through the door.
• Learn things you should never do with a stranger
  • Get in a car with a stranger.
  • Let a stranger touch in ways you don’t like or feel is correct.
  • Tell a stranger you are alone.
  • Open the door for a stranger.