Fire Prevention Week is a great time to go over fire safety practices with your young children. We created a free versatile Firefighter Booklet Template for you to use in your studies as well as found a bunch of other great freebies across the internet you might also like.
Download your Free Firefighter Booklet Template from the Homeschool Buyers Co-op here.
General Fire Safety:
Smokey for Kids – Smokey the Bear is an iconic staple of fire prevention education. At this site children can learn about Smokey the Bear, campfire rules the importance of protecting our forests and grasslands, play games, design their own coloring book, and write a silly story online. Click the Smokey the Bear icon in the upper left to go to the main site to explore more.
Sparky.org – Sparky the Fire Dog is another icon of fire safety. Kids can watch videos, play games, explore activities to do, and much more. Use the "Parents" and "Educators" links at the top right to find even more educational resources including printable information cards, Sparky the Dog Party Kit, lesson plans and so much more.
U.S. Fire Administration – Let's Have Fun With Fire Safety! activity book – This is a direct link to the PDF file (we could not find the original webpage on the FEMA website).
National Fire Prevention Association – We found several pages on this site that provide great material to use in your studies. Use this index page to find information sheets, the Fire Prevention Week website, teaching tools, and more. You can also go to the Lesson, activities & tip sheets page here to locate more.
Clever Classroom – Fire Safety Week Videos – You will find several YouTube videos here to watch with the kids as well as a link to a Fire Safety video playlist on YouTube. (Please be sure to view videos prior to letting them see them be sure they are appropriate for your family.)
Encouraging Moms at Home – Free Fire Safety Posters with a LEGO® Theme – Use these cute printables to decorate your classroom and serve as visual reminders about safety at home.
Lake Oswego Fire Department – Virtual Tours – Tour a fire station online with these virtual tours.
Games, Coloring & Crafts
123Homeschool4Me – Free Firefighter Coloring Pages – Get a dozen firefighter-related coloring pages including fire trucks, firefighters, a dalmatian, and firefighting tools.
All Kids Network - Firefighter Hat Craft – Instructions for creating a firefighter hat from a paper plate.
Learn Create Love – Printable Firefighter Craft – Print, color and build a firefighter with this cute printable.
Making Learning Fun – Fireman Toilet Paper Tube Puppet – Here is another easy-to-do firefighter. Print out the boy or girl firefighter, color, cut out, and wrap around an empty TP cardboard tube.
The OT Toolbox – Fire Truck Craft Easy Shapes – Using a variety of shapes, little ones can piece together a firetruck with this idea.
DLTK's Crafts for Kids – Egg Carton Fire Truck – Recycle an egg carton to create a fire truck with these directions.
Kindergarten Nana – Fire Safety – You will find quite a few good ideas and printables throughout this blog post including puppets, safety rules booklets, clipart, song lyrics, picture cards, and much more.
Math Activities
Grade Onederful – Fire Safety: Addition Game Freebie – Use this cute printable to play a game of Bump (Bump game instructions here).
From ABCs to ACTs – Printable Fire Truck Ten Frames – Practice number recognition with this printable. Amber also provides great instructions for using them.
A Tale of Two K Teachers – Fire Safety Week Fun {Freebie} – Scroll down to find the Fire Safety week ideas. Kids can practice AB Patterns with this freebie.
Liz's Early Learning Spot - How to use Board Games to Maximize Math Skills – In addition to the post about the benefits of games in teaching, there is a free "Counting on Fire Safety" game for little ones to play and practice counting to 10 skills.
Growing Book by Book – Counting at the Fire Station Printable Book (Free) – Print out this cute booklet for kids to color and count the firefighting-related objects.
PreK + K Sharing - Montessori-Inspired Fire Safety Activities Using Free Printables – This post contains ideas and links to printables for children to practice counting, graphing, adding, and more.
Early Learning Ideas – Free Fire Truck Printables – Use these printable simple cut apart puzzles to help children practice number order.
Language Arts:
Totschooling – Firefighter Alphabet Game – Little ones can practice letter recognition with this fire-themed printable.
Totschooling – Firefighter Letter vs. Word Sorting – Here is another cute printable from Totschooling that lets children practice sorting skills and recognizing letters and words.
Playing with Words 365 – Fire Truck Prepositions – Created by a Speech-Language Pathologist, children will enjoy this game that helps them with preposition distinction.
PreKinders – Fire Safety Picture Word Cards – Print out these firefighting-related word cards to use in your classroom.
Multi-Subject
Homeschool Creations – Firemen Printables – These free activity packs include lots of different types of activities as well as a Fireman Lapbook.
Living Life and Learning – Fireman Preschool Printables – This colorful packet includes word cards, pages for cutting practice, pencil skills, dot coloring, math skills, and more.
Mess for Less – Firefighter Kindergarten Worksheets – You will find worksheets for letter recognition, pencil skills, shapes, patterns, and same/different recognition in this packet.
Totschooling – Fire Safety Worksheets for PreK & Kindergarten – And yet another great freebie from Totschooling, this packet includes sequencing, games, tracing and coloring, puzzles, and "Hot or Not" activities.
Things to Share and Remember – Preschool Fire Safety Booklet Printables – Kids will enjoy learning about fire safety with these activities plus there are Fire Safety Awards at the end of the book to print out and give to your child in recognition of all they have learned.
Preschool Activities – Fire safety week worksheet for kids – Click on the images in this post for more activities such as color by number, dot-to-dot, mazes, tally and graphing, tracing, and more. Once you click the image and get to the page, click the image there to open it, then right-click to "Save image as" to save to your computer.
Royal, Baloo, and Logi-Bear Too – Fire – This site has quite a few fire safety activities and printables. This is a search result link. Browse through the posts to locate free calendar cards, activity packets and so much more.
In all You Do – Fire – This is another search result link. Browsing through these posts you will find fire safety-themed puzzles, writing practice, coloring pages, early learning skills, and more.
TeacherVision – Fire Safety – You will find a wide selection of printables and activities on this index page.
And don't forget to download your Free Firefighter Booklet Template here.