Free safety signs worksheets

Children meet safety signs long before they can read them: the red octagon at the corner, the yellow triangle on the wet hallway floor, the green EXIT over the classroom door. These seven worksheets teach the system behind the signs, not just the signs one by one. Every sheet uses drawn signs in their real shapes and colors, so a child who has done the set recognizes a new sign by its shape and color even when the words are unfamiliar. Six sheets have an answer key on page 2; the design sheet is open-ended.

What's in this set

1. Match the safety signs. Twelve signs (stop, yield, pedestrian crossing, school zone, railroad crossing, do not enter, exit, first aid, poison, high voltage, wet floor, no swimming) and twelve meanings in a mixed-up list. Write the letter of the meaning under each sign.
2. Sort the signs by color. Twelve pictured signs to sort into four boxes: red means stop or do not, yellow means be careful, green means safe or help, blue means you must. Three questions about shapes finish the page.
3. Color the safety signs. Nine outline signs with the real color rule written under each (stop is red with white letters, first aid is green with a white cross). The key shows the finished signs.
4. What should you do? Eight everyday scenes with the sign shown: a wet hallway, a stop sign on a bike ride, a bottle under the sink, a fire alarm, a lake, an electrical box, a crosswalk, a hot oven. Tick the one safe choice.
5. Sign shapes: trace and name. Trace the octagon, both triangles, the diamond, the circle and the rectangle, then name the sign that uses each shape from a word bank.
6. Safety words word search. Twelve words (stop, yield, exit, caution, danger, poison, warning, safety, slow, crossing, hazard, first aid) in a 12 by 12 grid, with the solution on page 2.
7. Design your own safety sign. Three blank shapes to draw, color and explain, then a box to design a sign for one classroom rule.

What students will practice

• Recognizing the twelve most common safety signs by picture, shape and color
• Reading the color code: red for stop and prohibition, yellow for caution, green for safety and exits, blue for mandatory actions
• Reading the shape code: the octagon is only ever a stop sign, a point-down triangle means yield, point-up triangles warn
• Choosing a safe action in a real situation and explaining why (health and safety standards for K to 3)
• Safety vocabulary: caution, danger, hazard, warning, yield
• Fine motor work: coloring inside a shape, tracing shapes, drawing a sign