Fire Safety

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Fire Safety DVD

Fire Safety Games On-Line
Elmo’s Fire Safety Game
Do-to-Learn
Sparky Fire Safety Games

9-1-1 Teaching Telephone

I have used the 911 Pretend and Play Teaching Telephone above in my classroom for many years and it’s a fantastic teaching tool! All of my students learn how to call 911 and what to say in an emergency. This phone allows you to record your own voice and create any type of message you like. The phone comes pre-programmed the following: “911, what is your emergency?” so when the children dial 911 correctly this is what they hear. They I teach them to respond by stating what type of emergency they have. We take turns acting out emergencies and having different students call 911. I also use this phone in December, click HERE to find out how!

Fire Safety Literacy Activities

Fire Truck Letter Matching

Setting: Small Group, Literacy Centers
Objective: Letter Recognition
Materials: Large fire engine cut-outs by Trend, Sharpie marker, lamination film, magnetic letters
Directions: Place the magnetic letters in a bowl in the middle of the table so they are easily accessible to all the children. Each child will select a fire truck and then find the matching letter that goes on the truck. When they are finished they put their fire truck away and get a new one.

Siren Game

Setting: Small Group, Literacy Centers
Objective: Letter Recognition
Materials: mini fire engine cut-outs by Trend, Sharpie marker, lamination film
Directions: This game is a modified version of the Bang Game. Write one one letter on each fire engine cut-out using the Sharpie marker. On the 27th engine write the word “Siren!” with the Sharpie marker. Laminate the fire engine cut-outs for durability. Place all the cut-outs in a basket or plastic tub. This game can be played in large or small groups. Have the students sit in a circle and pass the basket of fire engines around. Each student closes his eyes and removes one fire engine, then identifies the letter written on the back aloud. If a student gets the fire engine that says “Siren!” all the students can make siren noises in unison.

Fire Truck Letters

Setting: Small Group, Literacy Centers
Objective: Letter Recognition
Materials: Fire Engine Novel notepad, alphabet stickers, scissors, lamination film
Directions: Place two like stickers on each end of a fire engine note page. Laminate the note pad pages for durability. After the pages are laminated cut them in half like in the picture at left. Place all the cut up fire engines in a bowl or basket. Students will try to match the correct halves together by looking at the letters on each truck.

Fire Safety Math Activities

Fire Truck Counting Plates

Setting: Small Group, Math Centers
Objective: Number Recognition, 1:1 correspondence
Materials: fire truck birthday plates (party store), mini firefighter figures (Dollar Tree) Sharpie marker
Directions: Write the numbers 1-5 on the plates with a Sharpie. Have students put the correct number of firefighters on each plate.

Fire Safety Board Game

Setting: Small Group, Math Centers
Objective: 1:1 correspondence, number sense
Materials: cardstock, sticky dots, fire theme stickers, foam die with numbers 3-6 covered and replaced with 1 and 2 dots, different colored unifix cubes or other similar items for playing pieces
Directions: Create a board game by taping together two pieces of cardstock and attaching the sticky dots and fire theme stickers to create a game board. To play give each child in the small group one unifix cube of a different color. All players place their playing pieces in the designated “starting area”. Students take turns rolling the die and moving their playing piece. Make sure you cover the sides of the die that have numbers 3-6 and replace them with numbers 1 and 2, the objective of this game is to practice 1:1 correspondence with numbers 1 and 2.

Fire Safety Patterns

Setting: Small Group, Math Centers
Objective: patterning
Materials: fire theme stickers, patterning sheet (see printables section below)
Directions: Students pattern using fire theme stickers.

Fire Truck Roll ‘N Stamp

Setting: Small Group, Math Centers
Objective: Number recognition, number sense, one-to-one
Materials: foam die, fire roll ‘n stamp recording sheet (see printables section below), Red Do-A-Dot Markers
Directions: Students take turns rolling the die, identifying the corresponding number on their recording sheet and stamping the correct number with a red Do-A-Dot Marker. Cover the sides of the die with 4, 5, and 6 dots and replace them with the 1, 2, and 3 dots.

Fire Safety 1-5 Counting Grid
Setting: Small Group, Math Centers
Objective: 1:1 correspondence
Materials: 1-5 counting grid (see printables section below), fire safety stickers
Directions: To play this game give each child in the small group a counting grid sheet. Give each student in the small group a strip of fire stickers. The students will place the correct number of stickers in the boxes next to each number.

Fire Truck Roll ‘N Count

Setting: Small Group, Math Centers
Objective: 1:1 correspondence, number sense
Materials: Fire truck recording sheet (see printables section below), Do-A-Dot markers, one foam die
Directions: Print and copy one fire truck Roll ‘N Count recording sheet for each child in your small group. Cover the sides of the die with 4, 5, and 6 dots and replace them with 1, 2, and 3 dots. Each child takes a turn rolling the die and stamping the corresponding number with a red Do-A-Dot marker on their fire truck recording sheet.

Fire Truck 1:1

Setting: Small Group, Math Centers
Objective: 1:1 correspondence, number sense
Materials: Fire truck 1:1 mat (see printables section below), red Do-A-Dot markers, one foam die
Directions: Print and copy a 1:1 fire truck recording sheet for each child in your small group. Each child takes a turn rolling the die and stamping the corresponding number of fire trucks with a red Do-A-Dot marker on their fire truck 1:1 recording sheet.

Fire Safety Art Activities

Flames
Materials: orange and yellow fingerpaint, fingerpaint paper, brown construction paper.
Have the students fingerpaint with orange and yellow fingerpaint on fingerpaint paper. When dry, cut the papers into the shape of flames and glue onto black paper. Add a few brown construction paper rectangles to make logs under the campfire.

Shape Fire Truck

Materials: red and white construction paper, glue, crayons.
Have the students cut red rectangles, and red squares to make the truck. Glue the shapes on white construction paper and have the students add the ladder, hose, siren, wheels, and other features with crayons.

Never Play With Matches
Materials: red, orange, and yellow paint, construction paper, marble or golf ball, Xerox copies of a match, black marker, paint tray or cardboard box.
Xerox a picture of a match on an 8 1/2 X 11 sheet of paper for each student (Microsoft clip gallery). Lay the paper in the bottom of a painting tray or cardboard box. Dip the marble or golf ball into the paint and place in the box on top of the paper. Have the student tip the box back and forth so the marble rolls the paint across the paper. When dry, cut around the picture of the match in a circle. With a marker add a horizontal black line across the picture to make the international “No” symbol. These look great on a bulletin board during fire safety month.

Fire Hat
Materials: regular size paper plates, red crayons, Xerox copy of a badge or a badge sticker, scissors.
Have each student color a paper plate red with a crayon. Next, cut out the inside of the plate in a semi-circle with your scissors leaving the outer ridged edge for the hat band. Pop up the semi-circle in the middle of the hat, add the badge to the front, and you have an instant fire hat!

Hot/Cold

Materials: Microsoft clip-art, scissors, red and blue construction paper, glue
Give the children a sheet with clip art of objects that are hot or cold. Have the students cut and glue their pictures to the appropriate colored paper- red for hot and blue for cold.