These fun activities will teach children different concepts related to fire safety, such as how to escape a fire or learning techniques like stop, drop and roll.
Fire Crawl Maze (Gross Motor)
Create a fire maze in your classroom. You can do so by turning tables over on their side, and arranging the shelve in your class to create a maze. Or you can do with with large cardboard boxes that are opened up on both sides to create tunnels.
Once it is completed, have the children take turns crawling through the maze blindfolded. Add some extra fun by timing them, and emphasizing how quick fire can spread. Merge in language by creating a name chart afterwards of who completed the maze the fastest.
Smoke Chamber (Science)
This can be a fun activity to do with kids, that will emphasize to them the need to stay low. Just make sure you do it in a careful and controlled manner, and emphasize to kids that they are not to ever do this on their own.
Create a smoke chamber by Getting a cardboard box. First off, tape it closed using packing tape. Then, use a razor blade to cut out viewing windows on different sides of the box. Use thick saran wrap or a clear plastic wrap, and tape it over the viewing windows with Packing tape.
Next, create a smaller flap hole where you can insert something to smoke. Place some aluminum foil or other fire retardant material inside where you will be placing the smoker.
Set the smoke chamber out on one of the tables, or do this activity on the playground if required. Use incense sticks, A rolled up piece of paper, or other materials that will smoke up.
Have the children observe, and watch as all the smoke ends up towards the top. Use the experiment to emphasize how children need to stay low in a fire.
Charcoal Art (Art)
Using construction paper and charcoal, let the kids create their own smoky fire pictures with the charcoal as an art device.
House Fire (Blocks)
Set out any toy fire trucks or other play people or fire related toys in your block area. Also make a couple paper flames with Yellow, orange, or red construction paper to attach to the blocks. (Laminate the flames if you’d like) Tape the flames to the blocks, and then have the children build houses with the blocks and play flames. Let them use the fire trucks and other materials to pretend the houses are on fire and come to the rescue.
Egg Carton Fire Trucks (Art)
Gather enough egg cartons for the children in your class. (Note: You can substitute for cardboard pieces cut into rectangles if you’d rather) Cut out some black circles for wheels, and some black ladder pieces for the truck. You can also make windows or headlights with yellow construction paper. Have the children decorate the cardboard pieces or egg cartons by painting them with red and yellow paint. After they have finished, have them use the shapes to add ladders, wheels, and windows to their fire trucks as desired. For a finishing touch, you can also attach yarn for a fire hose.
Stop, Drop, & Roll (Gross Motor)
Let your children practice this important safety technique by placing out mats in an open area of the classroom. For added fun, make paper mache flames or streamers to tape to the children. Have them practice rolling on the mats to get the “flame’ out. Make sure you demonstrate good technique at the beginning of this activity.
Stop, Drop, & Roll with Balloons! (Gross Motor)
Another variation to teach kids this skill, blow up some balloons, and have children, stop, drop, and roll, trying to break the balloon. This also helps children to understand they need to roll around more than once.
Smoky Art (Art)
Have children color a picture on a piece of paper, using either crayon’s or markers. Also set out some paint in different shades of gray and black at the table, along with some cotton balls. When they are finished coloring their picture, have them dip the cotton balls in the shades of paint, and then glue them onto the top of their paper to symbolize smoke.
Have children color a picture on a piece of paper, using either crayon’s or markers. Also set out some paint in different shades of gray and black at the table, along with some cotton balls. When they are finished coloring their picture, have them dip the cotton balls in the shades of paint, and then glue them onto the top of their paper to symbolize smoke.
The house is on fire! (Dramatic Play)
Provide the kids with orange, yellow, and red paper mache or streamer paper, along with tape, and let the kids decorate the dramatic play area by taping the paper over everything to symbolize a house on fire. After they are done, let them pretend that they are a family inside the house and they have to use their fire safety skills to get out quick!
Find my way (Gross Motor-Music)
Blindfold a child, and have another child lead them around the classroom by yelling “Fire”. The blindfolded child should do the fire crawl to navigate their way to the other child’s voice.
Limbo Crawl (Gross Motor-Music)
Have children play a game of Limbo, only using the different fire crawls to go under the stick instead.
Crawling Under the Smoke (Gross Motor)
Use a large white or gray blanket or bed sheet for this activity. Have some other kids hold the bed-sheet waist high, and shake it up and down like a parachute. While they are doing this, have the other children take turns crawling underneath the ‘smoke’.
Finding 911 (math)
Cut out a whole bunch of numbers onto construction paper. Use the numbers 1 through nine. Spread them apart on the table, and have the children pick out the numbers 9-1-1 and glue them onto their own piece of paper. Talk about what they can use this number for.
Fire Activity Sheets: Each printable sheet contains 2 to 5 activities you can do with kids.
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