October 7-13 is Fire Prevention Week, so I am sharing 10 Fire Safety Crafts, Activities, and/or Books to help kids learn about fire safety and to encourage them to have some fun too! At our house, fire trucks and fire fighters always get Wild Thing excited so engaging with some new activities was a lot of fun.
1.
Get Inspired through Books -
We loved reading Alphabet Rescue and creating a fire truck from a juice box that we drove our letters around in, just like in the story. I have loaded up our library list with many of these other fire truck and/or fire safety books.
Felix the Fire Engine gets great reviews and
No Time for Flashcards has a comprehensive list of 20 firefighter books. I also have to share this great
PreK Fire Safety Pack from Royal Baloo!
2.
Make a Shape Fire Truck - We previously shared
this great one from
No Time for Flash Cards and here is another one
from Teach Preschool.
3.
Abstract Art Fire Trucks - Using red, black and yellow tape,
Teach Preschool shares some great trucks from her students.
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| Tape Fire Truck from Teach Preschool |
4.
Make a Big Fire Truck - We made one from a cardboard box and then got
inspired to pretend to be fire fighters with me driving Wild Thing
around the backyard to put out fires.
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| Simple supplies/materials: box, posterboard, glue, folder, tape, muffin liner, lids, marker. |
5.
Pretend Play - A simple spray bottle works perfectly well
for putting out pretend fires. Wild Thing had so much fun with his spray
bottle pretending to be a fire fighter. At
Teach Preschool, she set up fire stations and other first responders so that students could role play.
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| Putting out a forest fire - toddler style. |
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| Role play set up by Teach Preschool |
6.
Make a Burning Build - This also inspires role play/pretend play.
Boy Mama Teacher Mama makes a burning building from a cardboard box.
7.
Fire Sensory Bin
- Wild Thing enjoyed exploring this sensory bin. We discussed the
dangers of fire and how to respond if he sees a fire. (Most of these
items came from Target dollar bin or yard sales).
8.
Make Capes - Reading the book
Fireboy might inspire some cape creativity.
Mama Smiles has super simple superhero capes and
Coffee Cups and Crayons has great capes made from plastic table clothes.
9.
Make a Fire Station - from
milk cartons like No Time for Flash Cards or from a
shoebox like Glittering Muffins.
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| Milk Carton Fire Station from No Time for Flash Cards |
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| Shoebox Fire Station from Glittering Muffins |
10.
Visit a Fire Station - We did and had some great
moments, but it also presented some challenges for us on that particular
day. You can read all about our visit
here.
Oh - and I just had to share this photo of Caterpillar also enjoying, I think, the cardboard box fire truck.
Sharing this at:
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Lots of great ideas! I love the abstract fire truck made with tape. My kids love to play with tape, and I never thought of using it that way. Now I just need to buy the cool, colored kind!
ReplyDeletegreat round up of ideas! pinning this to my wheels board :)
ReplyDeleteThese are great ideas. I love the spray bottle to put out pretend fires.
ReplyDeleteI needed your post, yesterday. I was helping a preschool teacher find fire safety books. We found two of the ones you shared. I really, really love the fire sensory bin.
ReplyDeleteNice round up! Thanks for including us :)
ReplyDeleteEvery kid loves firetrucks! Thanks for linking up to The Children's Bookshelf, again.
ReplyDeleteAwesome post, Jennifer! So many great ideas! I featured your post at the Living Montessori Now Facebook page and pinned it to my new Community Helpers Board at http://pinterest.com/debchitwood/community-helpers-unit/
ReplyDeleteWhat great ideas! I love all the books you featured! The pretend play in this post is just wonderful.
ReplyDeleteWhat a great round-up. I love the burning building idea and the sensory bin. Thanks for linking up to The Children's Bookshelf. I'll be featuring this post!
ReplyDeleteI love all the great ideas you have here!
ReplyDeleteThese are perfect for Fire Safety Month! Thank you for linking to Read.Explore.Learn. I am going to share this post this morning.
ReplyDeleteGreat post! Thanks for sharing our burning building! :) Will be sharing on FB soon. :)
ReplyDeleteGreat resources. I love the shoebox fire station. Thanks for sharing at Mom's Library!
ReplyDeleteLove all the ideas! My boys would love that fire truck box:-) Thanks for sharing, jaime@FSPDT
ReplyDeleteThat burning building craft cracks me up- For my son's second birthday, he wanted a firetruck theme. I totally made a burning building cake with melted candy flames. It was ugly but it was pretty awesome. haha!
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I just ran into this post on Pinterest. What awesome ideas for Fire Prevention week! I love the idea of building your own fire truck and fire house, and the sensory bin is fabulous! I will definitely be coming back to this post in the future! :)
ReplyDeleteGreat post, I love the sensory bin - seems easy and fun.
ReplyDeleteI had fun revisiting your post, Jen! I featured your post and Fire Sensory Bin photo in my Community Helpers Activity Trays and Sensory Tubs post at http://livingmontessorinow.com/2013/09/11/community-helpers-activity-trays-and-sensory-tubs/
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