Addiction Prevention in Early Development Age (ages 6 to 10 years) Addiction Prevention Game:Day & Night.

Addiction Prevention in Early Development Age

(ages 6 to 10 years)

Addiction Prevention

Game:“Day & Night”

Programme History

• Concept and publisher: Red Cross Community Centre, Youth Committee

• Programme funding: the City of Rijeka

• Developed in: 2005

Workshops with Addiction Prevention Game 

“DAY & NIGHT”

• Brief description: Addiction prevention game called “DAY & NIGHT” is designed for preschool children and pupils of lower elementary. According to the concept of the “DAY & NIGHT” game, using addictive substances and absence of health represents the night, whereas health represents the day. Each square of the toy, which is made by folding the leaflet, contains an image supported by a suitable message and activity/game.

Programme Implementation

• As agreed with the leaders of Red Cross Youth (teachers and educators), older members organize visits to kindergartens and lower elementary classes during which they explain and play the game. Each visited group receives a set of flyers in a matching folder on which the game credo is printed out, along with the instructions and rules on how to play the game.

• Target group: children in early development (ages 6 to10 years)

• Preventive activity method: didactic game

• Aims: developing and creating behaviour and attitudes that promote healthy lifestyle

• Activity leaders: educated young Red Cross volunteers

TEACHING PYRAMID

LECTURE 5%

READING 10%

AUDIOVISUAL METHOD 20%

DEMONSTRATION 30%

DISCUSSION 50%

PRACTICAL WORK 70%

LEARNING FROM OTHERS 0%

% = amount of acquired information given the working method

ROLE-PLAYING

• In role-playing a child assumes roles to act out various life situations. Every role-play is an opportunity for a child to explore his/her own possibilities and abilities in a safe way. Role-playing creates ‘material’ for the activity leader, who can use it to raise awareness of healthy behaviour through discussion – while everyone’s having fun

TEACHING OTHERS

• By taking various roles, children become those who teach others. That enables them to become aware of the things they teach others - they practice what they preach. It is an efficient method of activating attention, increasing motivation and changing behaviour.

Holistic Approach to Health

Health model is designed as a flower (taken from the Health Through Education curriculum) with five overlapping petals :

- Physical health – how our body works- Mental health – how we think and learn- Emotional health – how we understand and express feelings- Social health – how we treat others- Personal health – how we see and perceive ourselves and a stem which is:- Spiritual health – our values, what is really important to us

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PHYSICAL

• 1 Night:• Statement: Alcohol lowers

the ability to memorize information.

• Activity:• Think of a sequence of

words beginning with the same letter. Say a name of a person to repeat it.

• 1 Day• Statement: If you don’t

drink alcohol, you study better.

• Activity: Say the first letter of a plant, city or object for the others to name.

• 2 Night• Statement: Alcohol leads to

poverty.• Activity:• Think of what you would like

to be (e.g. fireman, gardener, teacher) and mime it for the others to guess.

• 2 Day• Statement: If you don’t

smoke, you run faster.• Activity:• Make a train – you are the

engine, the others are carriages.

• 3 Night• Statement: Smoking

makes your teeth yellow. • Activity:• Tell a funny event/story or

make a funny face, make everyone laugh..

• 3 Day• Statement: If you say ‘no’

to drugs, you have more friends.

• Activity:• Play a game called ‘The

Knot’.

• 4 Night• Statement: Drugs make

people sad.• Activity:• Pretend you’re sad, let

the others try to cheer you up.

• 4 Day• Statement: If you don’t

smoke, your voice sounds nicer and your lungs are clearer.

• Activity:• Sing a song while the

others follow your tune by either singing or humming.