Ten for Tuesday: Activities for Fire Prevention Week

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!

Click here for the Safety Pack

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.

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. 

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.

Putting out a forest fire - toddler style.

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.

Milk Carton Fire Station from No Time for Flash Cards

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.

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