SOS 4 Kids · Home Alone Safety for Kids · 13 August 2026

Velma’s four items — answered

Everything in one place, in your order, with the pictures. Nothing here needs hunting for and nothing is counted as finished until you say so.

Every answer below refers to this video. Each orange button jumps this player straight to the moment in question — no scrubbing.

1The puddle at the front door

“Add a glass or mug or wet boots / wet umbrella by the puddle at the front door to draw attention to the wet floor. The size of the puddle should be logical based on what caused it.”

DONE — live now. Introduction video, 0:31.

You had identified the real fault: nothing in the frame caused the water. A damp umbrella now leans by the door with wet rain boots on the tile, the unexplained sheen across the open floor is gone, and the water sits tightly around the boots and umbrella — the amount those two things would actually leave.

Left, what was published. Right, what is there now. Lower panels are the same area enlarged.

What I need: satisfied, or tell me what is still wrong.

2The first aid kit on the counter

“It’s not obvious to me that there is a first aid kit on the counter. Show a box clearly marked First Aid or with a green cross. Do not use the Red Cross.”

DONE — live now. Introduction video, 0:36.

It read as nothing in particular because it was a plain white box lying flat, half out of frame, with no wording on it. It is now a single white case, lid standing up to camera, bold green cross, the words FIRST AID in clear capitals, scaled to read at normal playback speed.

Look at the enlarged panel on the left — that is what was published.

And the part you had not seen. The old box carried one marking: a red cross. The exact emblem you ruled out was already in the film. It is gone. In the US that emblem is protected under the Geneva Conventions and 18 U.S.C. § 706 — firmer ground than copyright. No red cross anywhere in this course, ever is now a check I run on every frame.

What I need: satisfied, or tell me what is still wrong.

3The certificate

“Redesign the Home Alone Safety certificate with different artwork for the badges… The original certificate does not say Badge Challenge. I am not a fan of this design, I prefer the original.”

READY FOR YOUR CHOICE — two layouts, plus one bigger idea.

“Badge Challenge” is off the certificate entirely. Both layouts place your supplied logo files rather than redrawing anything, and use the official brand colours from the files you sent on 7 August.

Left: classic award. Right: modern. Both carry the same new badge set shown below — the certificate and the Badge Board use one artwork family, not two.

And a proposal, not a decision I have made. Building those made something obvious, so I built it too so you could judge it rather than imagine it. The Badge Board: stop making the certificate the thing a child gets at the end — make it the thing they get on day one. One sheet on the fridge from the first lesson, seven empty slots showing the ghost of each badge, filled in with dates as they are earned. When the seventh lands, the panel at the foot becomes the certificate.

Left: day one. Right: finished. Same sheet. A certificate at the end rewards a child who already finished; a board on the fridge works on the child who has not.

The badge artwork. Seven shapes, seven colour worlds, each a small illustrated scene with a child in it rather than a symbol on a flat field.

Two of these I do not think you should approve. Fire Safety shows a child inside the flames; People Safety draws the stranger as a shadowy figure in a coat and hat. Both are fear images and your course teaches the opposite — check first with an adult in charge, and a calm way out. I would redraw Fire Safety as a child already low and moving toward the door with the alarm sounding, and People Safety as a child stepping back and asking an adult they know.

Open the two certificates Open the Badge Board

What I need: Badge Board yes or no — if no, which certificate. Whether those two badges need redrawing. The original certificate artwork you offered. And the brand typeface if one exists — none has ever been supplied, which is fine on screen and not fine on a sheet a child prints and keeps.

4Should the intro still start the Street Smarts badge?

“In the original course, the introduction video went right to the start of the first badge, i.e. Street Smarts. However, based on your description of the business model, does it still make sense to finish this video by starting the Street Smarts badge?”

YES — and nothing changed. Introduction video, 1:25 to 1:33.

Spencer’s answer: it should run straight from the introduction into the Street Smarts content, exactly as the original did. Here is that ending as it stands today.

The ending, mocked up with the proposed new badges

The ending, mocked up with the new badges so you are comparing like with like: badge challenge, then the certificate, then Street Smarts alone as the call to action. The film today still shows your 2018 badges — the moment you approve a direction this sequence is rebuilt to match.

What I need: confirm that is what you wanted.

One thing that will look inconsistent

In the badge sequence of the introduction video you will see your original 2018 badges, not the new artwork above. That is deliberate. The new badges are a proposal, and nothing proposed goes into the film until you approve it. The moment you pick a direction, that sequence gets rebuilt to match.

While I was in there I checked your 2018 First Aid badge, because a red cross on it would need replacing across the whole course. It does not have one — it is a red case with lettering and no cross. Nothing to fix.

Replacing two shots inside a finished film also risks knocking the audio out of step with the captions. Rather than assume, I compared the audio before and after and confirmed it is byte-for-byte identical, and held the film to its original length to the millisecond. Josh’s narration and every caption cue are exactly where they were.

Watch the introduction video