LIVE LIFE HANDS ON

Keep your family healthy with our hand washing hints.

Healthy

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A surgeons hands saves lives every day, and a builders can build homes to keep us safe and warm.

Every day our hands do amazing things, from helping to feed us to showing our family and friends that we care.

As our hands are so important to us we need to look after them, we can do this by keeping them clean.

Clean hands allow us to stay safe and healthy, enabling us to “live life hands on”.

WHEN?Wash your hands before you...

� Prepare or eat food � Treat a cut or a wound

Wash your hands after you...

� Go to the bathroom � Blow your nose, cough

or sneeze � Handle uncooked foods,

particularly raw meat, poultry or fish

� Play with your pet animals

� Change your children’s nappies

� Play or work in the garden

� Take out the rubbish

Handy hints for healthy hands HOW?Washing hands properly and regularly is a great step towards stopping germs spreading.

WORKS IN SECONDS

WORKS IN SECONDS

WORKS IN SECONDS

WORKS IN SECONDS

1. Wet hands with water, then use enough soap, like Carex Original liquid hand wash, to create soapy bubbles all over.

2. Remember to rub all surfaces, including wrists, palms, backs of hands, fingers and under fingernails – little hands may need some help!

3. Rub hands together for at least 15 seconds, to make lots of soap suds.

4. Make sure you rinse your hands thoroughly with warm water before drying them.

Try out our recipe below and don’t forget to wash those hands before you get cooking!

Rock Cakes with raspberry jamIngredients

� 225g plain flour

� 100g cubed butter

� 1 tsp baking powder

� 4 tbsps raisins

� 1 large egg

� 50g dark brown sugar

� 1 tsp milk

� 6-8 heaped tsps raspberry jam

Messy play is a good way to teach children about hand washing, try our tasty lunch box treats.

What to do1. Preheat the oven to 180°C Gas Mark 4 – 350°F.

2. Remember to wash your hands before and after cooking.

3. Put all the ingredients except the jam into a large mixing bowl and using your hands, combine everything.

4. Divide the mixture into six huge rock shaped cakes.

5. Use your thumb to make an indentation on the top of each cake and put a heaped teaspoon of jam into it.

6. Place the cakes onto a greased baking tray and pop into the oven for 15 mins.

7. Leave to cool before eating, if you can wait!

For more activities including ‘getting grubby in the garden’ visit www.carex.co.uk

Cook up a storm!

Carex have reached over 1.4 million children, in the last nine years, with their ‘Hands Up for Hygiene’ schools’ scheme.

The scheme teaches children how, where and when to wash their hands in a fun and interactive way.

Find further information and free access to the resources and activities on www.carex.co.uk

ver 1.4 million children have put their Hands Up for Hygiene!

For more fun activities visit www.carex.co.uk

So you know why, when and how… now get them into the habit.

Try singing Wash Them Well! with your child. Songs are a fantastic way to help them remember important things. This simple song takes approximately 15 seconds to sing – the perfect amount of time to wash those hands!

Download this and further songs at www.carex.co.uk

Soap and waterSoap and water,Wash your handsWash your hands,Rub them both together

Rub them both together,

Wash them wellWash them well!

© PZ Cussons

To

the tune of ‘Frere Jacques’