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Objective:
Creating simple activity for teaching Fire Safety
Skill Development: Dramatic Play
Minimum Age: Preschool
Messiness: Low
Materials
- Two milk cartons to create one truck
- Scissors or box cutter
- Construction Paper: red, black, yellow, brown
- Clear tape
- Glue sticks
Books to Read
*Reading enhancing the learning environment
Step 1:
Cut the tops off of the milk cartons to create a rectangle.
Step 2:
Clean the inside thoroughly with hot water and soap, then dry.
Step 3:
Push one of the cartons down into the other. Don't worry, it's much easier that you'd think.
This create a very sturdy brick that the children can play with.
Step 4:
Cover the carton brick with red construction.
Step 4:
Cut out circles for the wheels, headlights, and windows of the fire truck.
Allow the children to glue and paste them onto the fire truck.
Normally, I don't direct how a project should look but I did encourage the children to think about where do you fire wheels on a car? Are they up near the windows or down low touching the ground?
We had the pleasure of touring a local fire station the other day, which got the children thinking and asking some amazing questions.
Today we discussed fire safety and how to dial 9-1-1 if you should have an emergency.
We also found some great videos that Pre-K Pages suggested watching that was talking about fire safety and then we acted out Stop - Drop - and Roll
