Teach a fire safety unit to your students to help them learn how to be safe in a fire emergency and about these brave community helpers. There are so many fun things you can do for fire safety activities besides just the basics of fire safety. Keep reading for ideas for math, literacy, STEM, science, art, blocks, sensory, and dramatic play!
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Fire Safety Activities and Centers for Literacy
Fire Safety Vocabulary! Teach students new vocabulary words about fire safety with a fun writing tray. Writing trays are a great way to practice writing letters and words with sensory input. I used red, orange, and yellow sand on a cookie sheet. Then, students can use their fingers or a pom pom to write. A couple of little shakes to erase, and they are ready to go to the next sight word.
Ladder Beginning Sounds! Need ideas to teach beginning letter sounds in an engaging, fun way? Try these beginning sounds ladders. Students can move their firefighter up the ladder as they say each letter name, sound, and beginning sound picture. To make it a game, add dice. Students roll a die and move that many spaces, then say the letter and sound.
Fire Safety Book List! Check out my favorite fire safety books that are perfect for little learners. They have simple text and bright pictures to keep young children engaged. There are many nonfiction and fiction texts on the list. Add these books to your lesson plans for fire safety week.
Fire Station Rhymes! Practice rhyming words with your students during your fire safety theme. Students find the fire trucks that rhyme with the fire station. Put the rhyming cards in a sensory tub to make it more fun. I used cut pieces of tubing that is used for making wreaths.
Hydrant Letter Build! Practice letter formation with play dough or small manipulatives on the hydrant letter mats. Pom poms, buttons, plastic gems, or pony beads would all work great.
Boots Letter Match! Give students the opportunity to match letters with this cute fire boots puzzle. To differentiate, students can match uppercase to uppercase, uppercase to lowercase, or lowercase to lowercase to complete the puzzles.
Fire Safety Activities and Centers for Math
Fire Flip & Find! Students flip a card, find it on the counting board, and mark it or trace the number on the board. Keep flipping cards until the entire chart is full. Place the number cards in a mini sensory tub or tray for more fun, or tape a craft stick to the back of the number cards, then put the numbers in order. The number sticks can be stuck into Play-Doh or a pool noodle that has a slit cut in the top.
Firefighter Count! Flip a number card and count out the correct number of manipulatives. This is great for one-to-one correspondence, counting, and number recognition. Two number cards to meet the needs of your students, one with numbers and one with ten frames. Use pom poms, gems, buttons, mini erasers, or pony beads for the counting manipulatives.
Fire Roll & Cover! Grab some dice and play a number game. Students roll one die and then find the matching number on the game board.
Firefighter Count! Draw some apartment buildings and write numbers inside the windows. Then, I wrote large numbers across the bottom. Students could use little fire trucks to trace the numbers. Students could count out pony beads in fire colors to match the numbers in each window to make a burning building.
Hose Measure! Practice nonstandard measurement by measuring the hydrant hoses. Use the included Dalmatian rulers or use linking cubes or gems. I also cut up some black pipe cleaners (like hoses) for students to measure.
Fire Shapes! Mix red, yellow, and orange play dough to make fire dough. Students can roll snakes or cover the faces of the fire extinguisher shapes. Or they can make play dough balls as the vertices and pipe cleaners as the sides to build the shapes. These would be great for small groups, morning centers, arrival time, or other preschool activities.
Fire Safety Activities for STEM & Blocks
Fire Rescue Light Table! Use magnatiles, tealights, fire gems, and little fire trucks to build a fire station or a fire emergency. Your students will have so much fun building and playing together. If you don’t have a light table, you can use a light tablet or a tabletop.
Fire Safety Blocks & STEM Props! Turn your block area into a fire safety center with these In the Community STEM cards. I added blue pom poms, little fire engines, tealights, little firefighters, rescue dogs, fire-colored tissue paper, popsicle stick ladders, and fire cups. To make the ladders, I painted kraft sticks and glued them together. I searched for a fire image and printed it on yellow paper and taped it to some red plastic cups so students could stack them to build a fire. I always add books and STEM cards to show students things they could build.
Fire Safety Activities for Art, Fine Motor, & Sensory
Fire Fingerpainting FREEBIE! Grab this FREE fire template for a fingerprinting or coloring printable. Put the paper on the tray for easier cleanup. Another way to sneak in fine motor work is with finger painting! Learn about firefighters and create fire finger paintings with red, yellow, and orange paint.
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Fire Hat Craftivity! Your students are going to love this fire hat craftivity! Print the template and then cut construction paper into strips. Students can cut or tear the strips into pieces and glue them on their hats. Then, cut the hats out and staple them to paper bands around your student’s heads.
Fire Sensory! Break up some spaghetti noodles, then dye them with liquid watercolor and let them dry. Next, I added sparkly pom poms, tealights, tongs, measuring cups, and little fire engines. Lastly, I made sorting jars with some empty spice containers. I used colored masking tape to make the flames. Students can sort the pom poms and noodles by color. It will be great fine motor work for students to put the noodles into the spice jars through the little holes in the lids. See the steps to dye noodles here.
Fire Spray! Engage students in science, sensory, and fine motor development with this fun fire-themed sensory bin. Make some water orange with liquid watercoloring and add droppers and lids. I also put some water into squirt bottles. Students can try stacking the lids, filling the lids, and trying to sink the lids. If you don’t have lids, you can use pom poms. Once they dry, they will return to normal so they aren’t ruined.
Fire Play Dough Tray! Mix red, orange, and yellow play dough to make fire dough! Then, give students fire engines, gems, firefighters, fire cookie cutters, tools, and pipe cleaner flames to complete the tray. Don’t forget to give students scissors to cut play dough; this is a great way to practice fine motor skills!
Fire Safety for Science & Dramatic Play
Color Mixing Science Table! Set up a color-mixing science table to explore making colors. Paint in bags to mix, and droppers of liquid coloring are a great way to practice this fun experiment. Get all the color-mixing printables here!
Color Mixing! Students are trying to make orange by mixing red and yellow liquid watercolor. This goes wonderfully with a fire theme.
Fire Station Dramatic Play! Turn your dramatic play area into a fire station for students to pretend to be firemen and 911 operators. There will be so many social skills developed with this unit! Head over to the blog post for step-by-step directions on how to make the props and get more ideas!
Emergency Drills! Get printables to make fire drills less stressful for you and your students. Learn about fire fighters and making a fire escape plan with your students. The pack has a routine poster, a social story, and more. This unit is a great time to practice your fire routine or ask your local fire department to come and share information with your students.
There are so many fun activities and fire safety crafts for Fire Prevention Month that you can do in your preschool classroom. This theme goes great with a community helpers theme, too. Grab all the printables for easy prep!
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