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Safe & Unsafe Touch Cards – 20 Illustrated Visuals

Illustrated touch-type cards such as handshake, hug, and tickle are paired with person-type cards such as parent, teacher, and stranger to support personal-boundary discussion.
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Updated Jan 10, 2024

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Special Resources, Social Skills
Topic
inappropriate touch, hurtful touch
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The Inappropriate Touch Cards provide a tangible way to teach children about safe and unsafe contact.

The 20 illustrated cards feature 10 types of touch and 10 people. Educators can use these visuals to spark discussions around appropriate boundaries and consent. Children learn to identify wanted and unwanted touch from various individuals. Cards depict contact like hugs, hand-holding, pats on the back, tickling, whispering, and kissing. People shown include parents, doctors, teachers, siblings, classmates, and strangers.

Sorting activities help children categorize appropriate and inappropriate combinations. The tangible cards make identification of unsafe touch concrete. Teachers can prompt perspective taking - "How might that touch make you feel?" This hands-on approach engages multiple learning styles. Cards build awareness of tricky situations and instill confidence in setting boundaries. They can be utilized one-on-one, in small counseling groups, or whole class.

The Inappropriate Touch Cards foster essential communication around personal safety and abuse prevention. Visual aids appeal to diverse learners. Sorting exercises provide an interactive way to reinforce concepts. The cards help children identify, discuss, and set physical boundaries with various individuals. This proactive resource gives students knowledge and language to recognize and report concerning touch. It’s an invaluable tool for equipping children with skills to stay safe.

Set includes 10 cards with types of touch:

* high five

* Pat on the back

* hand shake

* Arm on shoulders

* Kiss

* hug

* Tickle

* Whisper in ear

* hold hands

* sit on lap

Also 10 people cards:

* Parents

* Doctor

* Teacher

* Stranger

* Sibling

* Grandparents

* Friend

* Classmate

* Aunt or uncle

* Family friend

Clipart images courtesy of Kari Bolt.

In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

  • Identify different types of physical touch and different categories of people or relationships.

  • Discuss which types of touch feel appropriate for which relationships, guided by teacher-led conversation.

  • Build vocabulary for describing personal boundaries and touch preferences.

Teaching tips

  • Combine one touch card with one person card at a time to prompt discussion about whether that specific combination feels appropriate, since the two decks are provided separately rather than as pre-paired combinations.

  • Choose the British-spelling ('Mum') or American-spelling ('Mom') version of the person cards to match your students' region.

  • Introduce the ten touch-type cards and ten person-type cards separately before combining them, since each deck stands alone as its own vocabulary set.

Skills covered

  • Touch-type vocabulary — ten illustrated cards name distinct physical touches such as handshake, hug, tickle, and sit on lap.

  • Relationship vocabulary — ten illustrated cards name categories of people such as parent, teacher, stranger, and family friend.

  • Boundary discussion — combining a touch card with a person card gives teachers a concrete discussion prompt for personal-safety conversations.

Good to know

Questions teachers ask about this resource

Are the American-spelling person cards a different set of people, or the same set relabeled?

The same ten person types appear in both spelling versions — only 'Mum' becomes 'Mom' in the American set; the other nine cards (Doctor, Teacher, Stranger, Brother or sister, Grandparents, Best friend, Classmate, Aunt or Uncle, Family friend) are identical.

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