When the weather is hot, it is important to encourage small children to think about sun safety.

Key messages for small children are:

• When the weather is hot drink lots of water.
• Don’t stay in the sunshine too long. Find some shade.
• Wear a sun hat
• Apply sun cream

Free sun safety printable 

Here is a free printable you can use to encourage small children to think about sun safety.

Products that can help you to explore sun safety

Childminding Best Practice Club – themed packs

Join the Childminding Best Practice Club and get monthly packs of themed activities emailed to you. As well as art projects with templates, each pack includes a planning guide to help you plan around a theme.

Be Safe, Be Healthy Pack

Printable safety and health art projects, activities and colouring pages to help childminders to teach 15 safety and health topics including bereavement, road safety, stranger danger, and sun safety and fire safety.