We practiced our fire safety skills this week with fire safety play and of course used our fire trucks! Fire safety is incredibly important for young kids {and older kids too} and it’s also just as important to talk about fire safety in ways that aren’t too scary. I put together a variety of fire safety play and activities so we could spend time together talking about ways to keep ourselves safe during the event of a fire.

FIRE SAFTEY ACTIVITIES AND PLAY IDEAS FOR KIDS

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FIRE SAFETY PLAY AT HOME

Liam has been really excited about fire safety week at school, so I thought I would extend the fun here at home with fire safety play. This way he understands that fire safety is important both here and at school. Just in case he thought fires didn’t happen anywhere but school! So far he understands Stop, Drop and Roll, the correct way to exit with his class and at home. He also knows where the exits are, to crawl if there is lots of smoke, to be careful around matches and so on!

I saw a great activity by Jdaniel4smom (here). She made a ladder on the floor out of tape, and that got my brain thinking about the alphabet and words! I used the rest of our painters tape and made a “ladder” with 26 (well ran out so almost 25 rungs) in the middle of our living room floor! I used our fire truck to get the right size so we could drive it through!

Here’s the start and finish. On the left, the fire station and on the right, a building on fire!

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I loved the way he walked it as he said the ABCs to figure out which letter came next!

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Next, I had a fun idea to come with the ABC’s of fire safety words to get us talking about what fire safety is about, what firemen wear, and what happens during a fire. I made a list of the words I thought of below.

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FIRE SAFETY PLAY SMALL WORLD

Adding the pretend flames to the buildings encouraged more pretend play since he was a boy on a mission to rescue people (or dogs) and put out fires! Ultimate fire safety play when you can act out different scenarios to reinforce safety concepts! I simply cut out some flame shapes from paper and used clothespins to prop them up so we could put them on our buildings.

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FIRE SAFETY PLAY WORKBOX

I also included fun printable activities and some of our favorite play materials to extend the learning all week long.

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HERE’S WHAT’S IN OUR FIRE SAFETY PLAY BOX

I have provided Amazon Links for your convenience.

1. Early Builders LEGO

2. Locks and keys Busy Bag {+24 more busy bag ideas!}

3. Firemen Books

4. Worksheets printed from Homeschool Creations (pre-writing, alphabet maze, and find the Ff) and Making Learning Fun (dot marker fire truck, numerical order fire truck activity and dalmatian spot counting activity)

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WHAT DO WE LOVE THE MOST? READING!

ABCs of fire safety

A. Axe, Ash

B. Boots, Blaze, Bell

C. Coat, Call

D. Dog, Drag, Drop (stop, drop and roll)

E. Engine

F. Fire, Flame, Firemen

G. Gear, Go, Grab

H. Hose, Horn, Helmet, Hydrant, Help

I. do not Ignore

J. Jump

K. Kink

L. Lift, Leap

M. Men, Move

N. Net

O. Operate

P. People, Pet, Police

Q. Quick

R. Rescue, Race, Reach, Roll, Ring

S. Station, Soak, Safety, See, Smoke, Signal

T. Truck, Team, do not Touch,

U. Up, Under

V. Vent

W. Water, Whoosh, Wheels, Women

X. eXtinguish

Y. Yell, Yank

Z. Zip, Zoom

CHECK THESE GREAT FIRE SAFETY PLAY RESOURCES TOO!

Fire Cup Knockdown | Lalymom

Firefighter Sensory Play and Community Helpers | Two-Daloo

Printable Fire Safety Book | Teaching Mama

Fire Safety Scavenger Hunt | Pre-k Pages

Fire Truck Fun | Teach Preschool

4 Comments

  1. WOW! That is a lot of great ideas! That alphabet ladder is crazy awesome and the standing clothespin flames are super cool! Pinning and sharing on FB later this week!

  2. Yes, I saw and mentioned you with a link in my post so people could check out what you did too!

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