Jan
21
Fire Safety Activities for Preschoolers?
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Melissa asked:
I need activities for preschoolers to do relating to fire safety. If I could get some good activities, websites, anything that will help ASAP! Thanks!
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I need activities for preschoolers to do relating to fire safety. If I could get some good activities, websites, anything that will help ASAP! Thanks!
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* Big Red: Run a blackline master of a fire engine onto thick tagboard. Then give each child a chance to paint the fire engine red, using fingerpaint, easel paint, marble painting, etc;
* Fiery Necklaces: Use red vinyl lacing string to lace colored macaroni: red, yellow, and orange.
* 911 Collage: Need: paper, scissors, and glue Directions: Cut 9’s and 1’s out of paper. Then glue them onto a piece of paper.
* Rule Out Fire: Stop, drop, and roll is an important fire safety rule for children to know and practice. After practicing this method for extinguishing flames, reinforce the activity with an art project to remind children what to do if their clothes catch on fire. In advance, write or type STOP, DROP, and ROLL on a sheet of paper several times. Make enough copies so that each child will have one set of words. Trace a shirt pattern on the fold of a sheet of white construction paper for each child. Have each student cut out his shirt. Next, direct him to dip a long length of dental floss in red paint and lay it inside the fold of his shirt cutout, leaving a free end trailing out. Then press the folded paper as the child pulls the floss out. Repeat the process with orange and yellow paint until the shirt is covered in colorful flames. Unfold the cutout and allow the paint to dry. Have each child cut apart his set of words. Finally, assist him as he glues the commands on his painted shirt.
* Ladder Fun: Lie a ladder flat on the floor. As you hold the ladder have one child at a time walk between the rungs without touching the ladder. Then had them try walking on the rungs; Take turns jumping/hopping thru the rungs. First between each rung, label a number with masking tape. Encourage the child to say each number as he/she hops thru the rung. A child is supported on the side, by hand, from the assistant or teacher. Supervision is required.
Add small fire trucks, ambulances, firemen, etc; to your block area. Model for the children how to create a fire station by building a tower with a drive thru passage. Encourage children to build their own fire stations, houses, etc;
* Ladder Bean Bags: Tip a ladder on its side and have the children throw bean bags through the rung holes.
* Water Table: Cut out craft foam flame shapes and place them in the table. Place several ****** bottles or liquid dish detergent bottles at the table. Direct the children to fill the bottles and use them to ****** the flames.
* Fire Findings: Add red shredded tissue paper to the table. Hide items that are fire safety related: fire engines, fire hat, firemen, water hose piece.
* Creating fire: Add ziploc bags of red and yellow paint for the children to squish around with. They will enjoy creating the color orange without getting their hands dirty!
* Add dress up items such as: fireman hats, a fireman’s outfit, a chart of stop, drop, and roll, a small piece of waterhose, plastic fire hydrant, etc;
* Ten Little Firefighters
Ten little firefighters
Sleeping in their beds.
Ding! went the bell,
And down the pole they slid.
They raced to the fire
And put out all the flames.
Then the 10 little firefighters
Went back to bed again.
* Wheels on the Fire Engine
Instead of bus. We use the siren, ladder, seat belts, and so on and so on. Just use your imagination with everything on the truck!
* Fire Safety
Tune: Skip to my Lou
I found matches what do I do?
I found matches what do I do?
I found matches what do I do?
I’ll throw them away or give them to you.
I see a fire, what do I do?
I see a fire, what do I do?
I see a fire, what do I do?
I’ll get help- that’s what I’ll do.
If my clothes catch on fire
If my clothes catch on fire
If my clothes catch on fire
I will know just what to do:
Stop, Drop; lay down and roll
Stop, Drop; lay down and roll
Stop, Drop; lay down and roll
This is what we all should do!
* Decorate your puppet stage to look like a window on a house. Add flames around the window. Then add puppets for the children to recreate saving someone from a fire. I made a fireman from felt, and then add other people puppets. You can also add Sparky, Fire Dog Sam, or Smoky the Bear.
* Prewriting activity- Use permanent marker to draw a simple house shape on a sheet of overhead transparency. Place the transparency in writing center. Add a cotton sock and yellow, orange and red dry erase markers in the area. Invite the children to use the markers to draw flames on the house. Then put out the fire by using the sock (fire hose) to erase the flames.
* Firetruck Cookies: Need: Graham crackers, butter knife, plastic butter knives, frosting tinted red, small black creme cookies. First, take out a whole four square graham cracker cookie. Gently press the upper left corner of the first square to cut it off. This creates the fire truck’s angle. Then let the children spread red frosting all over the graham cracker. Separate one chocolate creme
Amber had great ideas. Also, call your local fire department and ask them to come out and talk to the kids. They will come out, talk, show the fire truck and our guys had one guy talk and the other started out in regular street clothes. As the one guy talked about how firefighters look different and you shouldn’t be afraid of them, the other guy started putting on his gear. That way the kids could see that he was a normal guy but dressed kind of scary but not to be afraid of him. Then they did the stop, drop and roll.
We had been lucky enough to have a fireman come to the school for many years. Unfortunately, the last couple of years we haven’t been able to get one–mostly because they are volunteers and can’t get off work.
I always have a smoke detector and let the children hear what it sounds like, then we have a fire drill. We find as many ways out of the school as possible. We also go through the whole church looking for all the smoke detectors and fire extinguishers we can find.
One craft we do is make a shape fire engine, The cab is a red square, the body of the truck is a red rectangle, the wheels are 2 black circles, and there is a slim yellow rectangle that is the ladder.
We practice stop, drop, and roll–and crawling under the smoke. Good luck
I STRONGLY recommend this site for parents and teachers. ALL preschools and day care center should have this kit. The first link you can do stuff on-line. The second link is an order form, the kit is FREE you just pay shipping and handling. I used this in my class for years. The fireman all use it when they come out to teach fire safety. The kids love the card games (3-5 yrs), and they understand. This program actually helps kids, I had families comment how the kids retained the info and used what they learned months after the lesson. (once, a family home caught on fire at night, their child got out, and told them he learned this in school) I would too encourage the families to get involved, creating a ‘get out’ plan, more is in the kit. You probably can’t get the kit ASAP. but the website ihas fun stuff for the kiddies,. You may be able to reproduce the stuff. Basically, one game is about tools. the child picks ‘for kids’ or ‘for grownups’. Tools like a sand shovel, kids. A hammer, for grownups. Matches, grownups. ect. I brought some real matches, lighters, cigs, hammers, nails, in along w/ kid ‘tools’ ike cards, balls,ect . The kids were not allowed to touch ANY adult tool. This was a circle time activity, for play they used the card game.