Thanks gang! The night was a huge success.

We did fire safety as a group, including a fire drill. After that we played dodgeball to warm them up. (it was cold and wet ladt night.) Then we broke them up into three groups, and rotated them through a swimming safety, bike safety and basic first aid stations. Then we brought them back together to talk about calling 911. Every station had a little game and we ran them between stations.

The kids had a blast and everyone went home with some basic safety lessons:

-safety first! You can't help anyone if you get hurt too.
-use proper and properly fitting equipment. Your helmet/lifejacket/seatbelt can't help you if it's too big or too small.
-get help from a grown-up! whistle, yell, go get them or call 911.
-stay put until help arrives

Their favorite formal activities were practicing throwing a life preserver ring and pretending to be hurt.

Their favorite informal activity was trying to put as much gear on aas possible and then trying to play dodgeball (picture lifejacket, bike helmet, life preserver and wool blanket cape)

Thanks for the ideas! I;ll use More of them for next our EP night next month.