Preschool Fire Safety Activities and Lesson Planning Ideas
Below you can find tons of fun and engaging preschool Fire Safety Activities.
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Fire Safety Theme Map
Use the suggested learning objectives and vocabulary ideas found our our theme map, along with our carefully selected educational activities below to help you plan your lessons! Purchase our coordinating easy to assemble printable activities and games to save even more time!
Free Fire Safety Preschool Plan
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Shaving Cream Flame Art |
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Foot Print Fire Safety CraftFoot Print Fire Truck and Dalmatian from community member Jena Lee
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911 Color Mixing Art911 Resist Paintings shared by community member Jodi N. of the Apple Blossom Preschool and Childcare
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Fire Hand Print Craft
Sherry W. of First Friends Family Childcare shared this Fire and Flames painting activity. Provide a template or outline of a flame with red, yellow, and orange paint allowing the child to mix and paint the flame.
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Fire Truck Craft
Make your own fire truck out of a cardboard box.
Tissue Paper Fire Art
Provide a piece of paper that is cut out as a flame, give the child red, orange, and yellow pieces of tissue paper with glue and have them decorate their flame.
Fire Fighter Dress Up
Add Firefighter Dress-up Items (Hats, Jackets, Boots, Gloves). Be sure to keep an eye out on the Halloween Racks for Firefighter costumes! Also include dress-up clothes and accessories for other emergency service personnel like police officers, EMT, and dispatchers.
The Fire Fighters are ready to suit up at Adventurous Learning Unlimited Daycare!
Fire Truck Fun
Terrea D. also created this fabulous Fire Truck for her Dramatic Play Space! You can use a Large appliance box to create your own Fire Truck, or Add a Fire Truck tent to your space.
Help Put out a Fire
Create a "Burning" building in your dramatic play area (or outside). Use empty spray bottles (or cut up hose pieces) to pretend to put out the fire.
Home Fire Role Play
Have students role-play escaping a home fire. You can add a bed area to the dramatic play area and have students practice getting low and exiting the house.
Firefighter Jobs
Firefighters can have lots of different jobs such as working at an airport or on a boat. Consider adding an airplane or fireboat set up to the dramatic play area along with dress-up clothes so that children can try out all kinds of firefighter roles.
Fire Fighter Small World Play
Add firefighters, Firetrucks, materials for building Homes, and People to your Construction Space this week.
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Photo Credit: Miss Vicki's Daycare
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DIY Fire Blocks
Community member Victoria S. of Miss Vicki's Daycare added a variety of fire safety inspired toys to her building space. She also created her own DIY fire blocks to use in this space.
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Photo Credit: Miss Vicki's Daycare
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Include Pictures in Your Space
Add pictures of firehouses, fire departments, and fire trucks. Providing these pictures will help the child to model these while building.
Fire Cup Stacking
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Add pictures of flames to red plastic cups and secure with packing tape. Have the children stack up the cups as high as they can inside a sensory bin. They can then use a squirt bottle or a ball to topple the cups and "put out" the fire.
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Build a Ladder STEM
Give children marshmallows and toothpicks and challenge them to create a ladder to reach the top of certain objects such as a doll house.
Fire Safety ABC Puzzles*
Set out this set of Fire Truck and Hydrant themed alphabet puzzles in your literacy space this week! Set out the whole alphabet or a few at a time. These self correcting puzzles support preschoolers working on uppercase/lowercase recognition.
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These puzzles can be found inside our Fire Safety Activity Pack
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Fire Safety Vocabulary *
Enhance your space and create literacy activities with the printables from this Fire Safety Vocabulary Set.
Extend the learning, provide the child with magnetic letters and see if they can practice matching the first letter to the words.
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Take a closer look at what's included in this set!
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Matching Letters*
Preschoolers can practice matching uppercase to lowercase letters with this fun fire safety themed game from the Fire Safety Activities Pack
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This fun fire hydrant game can be found inside our Fire Safety Activities Pack ​
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Firefighter Circle Time Rhyme |
Find this, and more circle time rhymes inside our Fall Circle Time Rhymes Pack.
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Fire Sand Tray
Use orange or red colored sand, have the child using their finger practice writing letters.
Provide the printed out letters.
Provide the printed out letters.
Hose Letter Formation
Let your students use hoses to make large letters outside.
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Jobs People Do -- A Day in a Life of a Firefighter (Level 1: Beginning to Read) by Linda Hayward
Big Frank's Fire Truck by Leslie McGuire and Joe Mathieu
Touch and Feel: Fire Engine by DK
Firefighters Help (Our Community Helpers by Dee Ready and Gail Saunders-Smith
Curious George and the Firefighters by H. A. Rey and Margret Rey
Dial 911! (Fire Safety) by Charles Ghigna , Mark Oblinger
Big Frank's Fire Truck by Leslie McGuire and Joe Mathieu
Touch and Feel: Fire Engine by DK
Firefighters Help (Our Community Helpers by Dee Ready and Gail Saunders-Smith
Curious George and the Firefighters by H. A. Rey and Margret Rey
Dial 911! (Fire Safety) by Charles Ghigna , Mark Oblinger
YouTube Read Aloud: A Day in a Life of a Firefighter
Invite your preschoolers to learn a bit about what it's like to be a firefighter with this book by Linda Hayward. Get the book here in our shop or listen to this read aloud from a fire chief on YouTube.
Firefighter Positional Words*
Practice positional phrases with a firefighter and his pup! Read the positional phrase with an adult and then move the pieces to follow the directions.
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Free Fire Engine Number Sorting Mats*
There are so many ways to show numbers! This set of FREE Fire Engine number sorting mats support preschoolers learning some of the ways to show numbers. Sort numbers 1-10 on to their correct mats.
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Download this set for free in our store!
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Fire Patterning
Introduce patterns, make a few pattern cards using colored dots. Provide your student with red, orange, and yellow tissue paper, and encourage them to create and continue the pattern, by bunching up the tissue paper to look like flames.
Fire Safety Roll and Graph*
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Invite preschoolers to roll the dice and color the corresponding square on their recording sheet! A great activity to introduce the concepts of graphing. This activity is available in our Fire Safety Activity Pack.
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Fire Safety Snake Crawl
Place large numbered flames 0-10 around your room. Call out a number, and have your students "snake crawl" to the correct number. This is also a great gross motor activity, and good practice for how to crawl low.
Science, Sensory, and STEM
Fire Safety Sensory Bin
This Fire Safety inspired sensory bin was shared by reader Erica P. of Erica's Educare Learning Center.
She added a base of corn, multi color pom-poms, scoops, and a variety of Fire Themed accessories to her bin! |
Photo Credit: Erica's Educare Learning Center
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Flame Sensory Bin
Use shaving cream with powdered paint red, yellow, and orange powdered paint on top and give the child a squirt bottle, have them practice with squirting the bottle to extinguish the flame.
Hot vs. Cold Sorting
Learning to not touch things that could be hot, is an important topic to cover during fire safety week. Once way you can do this is by sorting photos/images of items that are hot and cold.
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Fun in the Sun Activity Pack Activity
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Fire Simulation Experiment
Simulate the starting of a fire in a safe way for children using baking soda and vinegar. Add baking soda and red and yellow food coloring to a clear plastic cup. Talk about how fires starts and spread. Add the vinegar and watch as the "fire" expands.
Heat Rises
Simple experiment to show children how heat rises. This video is an excellent example. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s30VT6FxAFc
Fine Motor and Gross Motor Development
Firefighter Gross Motor Activity*
Get children moving in a variety of ways while supporting shape recognition and talking about Fire Safety with this fun preschool fire safety gross motor activity.
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Buy the Fire Safety Gross Motor Game
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Practice Fire Safety
Practice the motions of what to do if there is a fire. Here is a fun song to help children learn and remember the steps to take if there is a fire.
Fire Safety Pre-Writing/Cutting Practice*
Add this pre-writing and cutting practice page from the Fire Safety Activities Pack pack to support fine motor development this week. In addition to tracing, you can also use these sheets to practice cutting, or trace the lines with small objects like fire related mini erasers!
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One of the fun activities that can be found inside the Fire Safety Activity Pack!
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Step Ladder Activity-Gross Motor
This can be done indoors or outdoors, you can use chalk to draw a ladder on the ground and have the children practice walking on each step. Indoors you can use white pieces of paper in a ladder formation and have the child practice stepping on each piece of paper to represent climbing a ladder.
*Stop Drop and Roll
Practice how to stop drop and roll as well as Stay Low and Go with the posters from the Fire Safety Activities Pack for both safety and physical development enhancement. Combine this with some of your favorite music.
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See all of the resources included in the Fire Safety Activity Pack
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Put out the Fire
Put orange and red pom poms in a sensory bin. Give children pipettes and water. Have them suck up the water and put out the little pom pom fires by dousing them with water.
Firefighter Relay
Set up firefighter turnout gear, challenge preschoolers to put on their gear as quickly as possible. Once it's on they crawl on the floor (under the smoke) to the "flames" (white board with flames drawn would work well) on the other side of the room and use a spray bottle with water in it to extinguish the flames. A great hands-on activity to help preschoolers know and understand the importance of practicing fire safety.
*Firefighter Lacing Cards
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Practice important lacing skills with these fire themed lacing cards that can be found within our Fire Safety Activity Pack.
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Learn about Firefighters
Learn about firefighters with a fun field trip! You can visit a fire station (call ahead to reserve a time!), invite firefighters to your program, or take a virtual field trip like this one from Kid Vision.
*Practice Fire Drill
Talk about fire alarms in your house and at school, what would happen if there was a fire and practice your own drill.
Practice Calling 9-1-1Practice identifying the numbers for emergency services on this printable from the Fire Safety Activities Pack and then practice on a real phone!
This pack includes both a cell phone and landline style printable as well as variations on emergency numbers including 911,000, and 999. |
Let's Practice Dialing 9-1-1
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I Know My Telephone NumberThis week is a great time for young children to learn their phone number. Use this Editable Telephone Number sheet to invite preschoolers to learn their phone number and practice dialing.
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Ways I Can Stay Safe
Talking about Fire Safety may elicit an uneasy feeling in some young children. Be sure to include discussion about how children can stay safe this week. Include discussion about fire prevention as well as what do do in case of a fire.
*At the Firehouse I Spy
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Invite children to work in a small group to work on this I Spy activity Mat together. There are all kinds of fun things to spot at the firehouse! Flip a card, find and mark the item, see what other objects there are to find too.
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This resource can be found inside our Fire Safety Activity Pack!
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Play a Group Game Together Extinguish the Fire Rolling Game
Here is a fun fire themed rolling game you can play with your preschooler that supports turn taking, 1:1 correspondence, and counting. Roll the playing cube, read the number word, then add the same number of water drops to the flames to put out the fire.
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​You can find this activity in the Fire Safety Activities pack!
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Fire Safety PracticeFollow this read aloud with a discussion about fire safety. Hang fire safety posters around your space. Read the signs and pretend to practice what to do if there is a fire.
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A copy of this poster can be found inside our Fire Safety Activity Pack!
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My Role in Fire Safety
Write out on index cards different tasks associated with fire safety (checking smoke detectors, keeping path to exit clear, putting out a fire, etc.) Have three categories: me, parents, firefighters. Children discuss and sort the tasks based on who takes care of each task.
Educator Resources: Group Activities, Circle Time, and Parent Engagement
October is the perfect time to incorporate Fire Safety into your childcare program.
Kids love learning about firemen and the special job they do. Your Best resource is your local Fire Station. Check with them in advance to see if they will offer your program a tour, or if they have any Free Educational Resources you can share in your program!
Kids love learning about firemen and the special job they do. Your Best resource is your local Fire Station. Check with them in advance to see if they will offer your program a tour, or if they have any Free Educational Resources you can share in your program!
Firefighter Themed AttendanceYour students will love checking in each week! Spruce up your attendance activity this week with this fun firefighter themed printable included in our Year of Attendance Activities pack.
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Take a closer look at the attendance activities!
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Review your Safety Plan
This week is a good time to review your safety plan for a fire at school. Practice your escape plan and be sure to children know where a phone is and how to dial emergency services.
These phone posters are included in the Fire Safety Activities Pack pick the one that best fits your situation then print and use a prop for your lessons.
These phone posters are included in the Fire Safety Activities Pack pick the one that best fits your situation then print and use a prop for your lessons.
Encourage Parents to Make a Fire Safety Plan
This week share fire safety resources with your families including this link to activities from the National Fire Protection Association. Encourage families to create their own fire safety plan for home.
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