□ Design posters to display in school or in the school parking lot.
□ Announce seat belt statistics & facts or other teen crash causative factor statistics (impaired driving, running off the road, speeding, distracted driving) during school announcements.
□ Conduct a seat belt check in the parking lot as students and faculty are coming into school in the morning. Blow the whistle on any who are unbelted.
□ Make table tent cards for the school cafeteria.
□ E-mail students asking them to buckle up and drive safely.
□ Ask teachers to write driving safety reminders on their chalkboards/whiteboards.
□ Design the school bulletin board around a safety theme.
□ Include information about safe driving tips and seat belts in your school newspaper.
□ Make flyers reminding students to buckle up and drive safely distribute around the school or in the program at home games.
□ Make announcement at half-time of home games and encourage everyone to buckle up and drive sober.
□ Make a large seat belt for your school mascot to wear at home games.
□ Place safety reminders on the school Marquee.
□ Set up a safety table at a home game to distribute information to students, parents and guests.
□ Organize a seat belt fashion show.
□ Create a poster displaying the effects of drowsy driving.
□ Ask your local radio stations and hometown newspapers to promote your schools participation in the specified safety campaign.
□ Hand out Dum Dum Suckers with Dont Be a Dum Dum, Buckle-Up and/or Drive Sober label to the students or Smarties with Be a Smartie, Buckle-Up and/or Drive Sober label to the students.
□ Have students sign a pledge to be responsible and safe drivers. Make a large thermometer on poster board to measure the progress. Each week, color in the percentage of students who have signed the pledge.
□ Enter names of students who sign the pledge in weekly drawings for prizes.
□ Have a ghost out day to show the number of teens killed who were not buckled up, under the influence, speeding,
etc. Black shirts can be borrowed from YOVASO or make your own.
□ Design a Face Book or MySpace Page that promotes your club and safe driving activities.
□ Organize a white out at a home game where students and other fans are encouraged to wear white to show that they always buckle up and drive safely.
□ Create a text tree send out important teen driving safety messages Friday and Saturday nights to your contact list.
□ Be creative, have fun and come up with your own ideas!