SAFE Educational Activities Ideas

Teen Driving Presentations

"Driving For Teens" is about 45 minutes long and can be done either with a PowerPoint slide show or a Kahoot interactive online quiz game. It covers topics such as distracted driving, impaired driving, and mental health and driving.

"Mental Health And Driving" is a PowerPoint slide show presentation that is about 20-30 minutes long. It covers how mental illness can impact driving, ways to prevent risky driving, and community resources and alternatives to driving.

To request either of these presentations, email Courtney Nowland at cnowland@dccca.org.

Booster To Belts

With the help of Booster Rooster, Booster 2 Belts gets kids excited about seat belts.

This program is made available through the Kansas Traffic Safety Resource Office and the Kansas Department of Transportation in an effort to increase seatbelt use among children in Kansas.

KTSRO offers a $150 speaker reimbursement opportunity for schools and community organizations who complete Booster to Belts. For complete details, read the Booster to Belts Guide.

Click HERE for more info.

Just Drive

The Kansas Department of Transportation, Kansas Department of Education and the Kansas Insurance Commissioner invites your high school to participate in this year's Distracted Driving Awareness Campaign.

April is Distracted Driving Awareness Month and we want to help you focus on distracted driving prevention.

To participate in this campaign, complete the order form and you will receive a Distracted Driving Awareness educational kit. The kit will contain texting and driving law cards and posters, campaign posters, a campaign message calendar and pledge cards.

Please sign up to participate in this campaign before March 15th in order to receive the necessary materials in time.

Distracted Driving Campaign Sign Up Form

Miss Kansas

The Miss Kansas Organization and the Kansas Department of Transportation have partnered to keep Kansas roads safe. Miss Kansas 2024 Alexis Smith is available to give a live or virtual presentation to SAFE schools on traffic safety issues. Presentations will last approximately 45 minutes. Number of presentations are limited and will be set up on a first come basis and is subject to Miss Kansas' schedule. If you would like Miss Kansas to come to your school, please REGISTER HERE.
Click here to download a PDF version of the SAFE Miss Kansas 2024 poster (11x17)

Vince and Larry Scripts

Use these scripts to promote driving safety!

They can be acted out in audio form only (like on a podcast, radio ad, or other public service announcement) or you can check out the Vince and Larry costumes HERE and bring the characters to life.

Vince and Larry: Impaired Driving

Vince and Larry: Christmas and Street Racing Script

Vince and Larry: Distracted Driving Script

Vince and Larry: Halloween Script

Vince and Larry: New Years and Speeding Tickets Script

Vince and Larry: Texting at a Red Light Script

Vince and Larry: Thanksgiving and Drowsy Driving Script

Vince and Larry: Turn Signals Script

Vince and Larry: Winter Driving Tips Script

Vince and Larry: Why be Involved in SAFE? Script 1

Vince and Larry: Why be Involved in SAFE? Script 2

Around Your School

Draw chalk art on sidewalks

Chalk it Up!

Create a fence display

Make SAFE driving posters

Install SAFE driving signs

Create a display of books with crashes as part of the plot

Make a large SAFE pledge card banner or create a pledge card wall

Put a traffic safety message on your school's marquee

Show SAFE driving reminders on screens - CLICK HERE for SAFE on YouTube

Put traffic safety notes or magnets on lockers

Put SAFE Driving Ads in Programs

Start a SAFE social media account

Give out coupons when you see someone buckled up

School Events

Hold a Kahoot SAFE Driving Challenge Quiz

Host a ThinkFast Interactive Game Show

Bring in the Kansas Highway Patrol's Rollover Demonstrator or Seatbelt Convincer

Have a seatbelt "fire drill" competition - CLICK HERE for rules

Hold a Mock Crash

Hold a Mock Trial - CLICK HERE For A Script

Have a SAFE Spirit Week

Have a "Red Thumb" Day and paint thumbnails red to remind everyone not to text and drive

Hand out snacks with SAFE reminders

Drive a golf cart or remote control cars while wearing drunk goggles or texting

Community Events

Make a SAFE Parade Float

Hand out SAFE reminders at games, performances, and other gatherings

Give out SAFE "Traffic Citations" - CLICK HERE for a PDF

Promote Pedestrian and Bicycling Safety

Be part of KDOT's Adopt-A-Highway program

Invite a Guest Speaker

ThinkFirst of Greater Kansas City

Nicole Allensworth (Texting and Driving)
Joe White (Underage Drinking)
Jared Estes (Drunk Driving Victim)
Garry Parker (Defensive Driving)

Videos

Karen Williams - STEP Classes

In this six-part series, Karen Williams takes teens on a journey to explain how biology and changes in their brain affects everything in their lives - especially the challenges they face as they learn to drive safely.

Kansas' Graduated Driver's License video