Preschool Fire Safety Theme

Below you can find tons of fun and engaging preschool Fire Safety Activities.

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Planning your Fire Safety Theme

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Download our Free Fire Safety Preschool Sample Lesson Plan

Featured Plan Activities

 Below you’ll find activity ideas featured in our Fire Safety sample plan.

Art & Creativity
Fire Truck Craft
Make your own fire truck out of a Tissue box.
Wrap box in Red Paper, cut out and attach window, ladder, and wheels from a printable template.

Dramatic Play
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.

Building & Small World Play
Fire Fighter Small World Play
Add firefighters, firetrucks, materials for building homes, and people to your construction space this week.

Language and Literacy
Fire Safety ABC Puzzles
Children match up the uppercase
and lowercase cards.
Hose Letter Formation
Let your students use hoses to make
large letters outside.

Mathematics
Firefighter Positional Words
Use the positional word cards to create and demonstrate positional phrases.
Firefighter Number Crawl
Enhance number recognition and gross motor skills with the Firefighter Number Crawl activity. Children snake crawl to numbered flames in the room based on the called-out number. This fun and educational game helps preschoolers practice counting, direction following, and physical coordination.

Science & Discovery
Sort Objects That Are
Hot vs. Cold
Locate images of hot and cold items from magazines and practice sorting them accordingly. This activity aims to develop classification skills, introduce concepts of temperature, and enhance cognitive abilities through hands-on learning.

Physical Fine Motor
Fire Safety Pre-Writing/Cutting Practice
Use these sheets to practice tracing or cutting along the dotted lines.

Physical Gross Motor
Stop Drop and Roll to Music
The Preschool Stop Drop and Roll to Music Activity is a fun and engaging way for preschoolers to learn an important fire safety skill. As they listen to their favorite music, children will practice the stop drop and roll technique, enhancing their coordination and body awareness. This activity promotes a sense of enjoyment and active participation, ensuring a memorable and valuable educational experience for preschool students.

Social-Emotional
At the Firehouse I Spy
Children locate each item on the mat​
inside the firehouse and mark the card once it’s been found.​

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Flame Painting Tutorial

Try this process art exploration for a sensory rich painting experience. 

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Foot Print Fire Safety Craft

Foot Print Fire Truck and Dalmatian from community member Jena Lee

911 Color Mixing Art

​911 Resist Paintings shared by community member Jodi N. of the Apple Blossom Preschool and Childcare

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. 

Fire Truck Craft

Make your own fire truck out of a Tissue box.Wrap box in Red Paper, cut out and attach Window, Ladder, and Wheels from Printable Template. Buy Now

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.
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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. View Member Instructions

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. View Member Instructions

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. View Member Instructions

Fire Fighter Small World Play

Add firefighters, Firetrucks, materials for building Homes, and People to your Construction Space this week. View Member Instructions

Photo Credit: Miss Vicki's Daycare

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.

Photo Credit: Miss Vicki's Daycare

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

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. ​View Member Instructions

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. ​
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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. 

These puzzles can be found inside our Fire Safety Activity Pack

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.

Take a closer look at what's included in this set!

Matching Letters*

Preschoolers can practice matching uppercase to lowercase letters with this fun fire safety themed game from the Fire Safety Activities Pack ​

This fun fire hydrant game can be found inside our Fire Safety Activities Pack ​

Firefighter Circle Time Rhyme

This Fireman circle time rhyme is a great addition to group activities during this theme. 

Find this, and more circle time rhymes inside our Fall Circle Time Rhymes Pack.

Fire Sand Tray

Using orange or red colored sand, have preschoolers use their finger to practice writing letters. Provide printed letters for reference. 
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Hose Letter Formation

Let your students use hoses to make large letters outside. View Member Instructions

A Day in the Life of a Firefighter Pre-K Book Companion

Learn more about what firefighters experience in their day on the job with a great book and our A Day in the Life of a Firefighter Pre-K Book Companion. This pack includes language & literacy activities related to the book as well as printable firefighter gross motor cards.

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Firefighter Frank Pre-K Book Companion

Take a ride with Frank in the book Firefighter Frank by Melissa Wellington. Our Firefighter Frank Pre-K Book Companion compliments this book with engaging activities. This pack includes language & literacy activities related to the book as well as printable craft.

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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

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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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Fire Safety 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. Buy Now

Fire Safety Roll and Graph*

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. 

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

Add a base of red, yellow, orange, and blue pom-poms to your sensory bin.  Add scoops and a variety of fire-themed accessories to the bin.
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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.

Fun in the Sun Activity Pack Activity

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. View Member Instructions

Heat Rises

Simple experiment to show children how heat rises. This video is an excellent example. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s30VT6FxAFc

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.

Buy the Fire Safety Gross Motor Game

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!

One of the fun activities that can be found inside the Fire Safety Activity Pack!

*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.

See all of the resources included in the Fire Safety Activity Pack

Put out the Fire Sensory Bin- Fine Motor

Put shaving cream “flames” in a plastic tray or bin. Mix orange, yellow, and red food coloring into them to look like flames. Give children pipettes and water. Have students suck up the water and put out the little fires by dousing them with water.
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*Firefighter Lacing Cards 

Practice important lacing skills with these fire themed lacing cards that can be found within our Fire Safety Activity Pack.

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. 

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.
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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.

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. View Member Instructions

Practice Calling 9-1-1

Practice 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

I Know My Telephone Number

This 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. 

​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. View Member Instructions

*At the Firehouse I Spy

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.

This resource can be found inside our Fire Safety Activity Pack!

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.

​You can find this activity in the Fire Safety Activities pack!

Fire Safety Practice

Follow 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.  

A copy of this poster can be found inside our Fire Safety Activity Pack!

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. ​View Member Instructions

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!

Firefighter Themed Attendance

Your 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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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. 

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. 

Shop for Fire Safety Products from Pre-K Printable Fun

Pre-K Printables Club Members can download all of these products for free using the special member links in the shop listings, or from the download area! Not a member? Purchase below, or find out how to join!

Fire Safety Preschool Activity Pack

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Attendance Daily Sign In Activities

$7.00

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Fall Rhymes and Fingerplays

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Fire Engine Number Sorting Mats

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Telephone Number Worksheet

$2.00

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Fire Station Preschool Dramatic Play Pack

$5.00

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