Fire Unit Day 3: Fireman Hats

Every so often I get really courageous and try to come up with my own craft-sometimes it works out other times, um not so much. This one worked, well sorta. Maybe if my kids had tiny heads, haha.

Supplies:

• cardboard (we used a diaper box)
• Tacky glue
• Red tissue paper
• Recycled Cool Whip container or any kind of bowl
• Red, Yellow and Black construction paper
• Scissors
• black marker
• Pentagon shape from a puzzle or just draw one
• Imagination!

Start by cutting out one side of your cardboard box then use the outside edge of your Cool Whip container to draw rounded edges on all four sides of the cardboard. Cut the rounded corners.

Use the top of the container to trace a large circle in the center. Then cut out the circle.

After cutting the edges and center circle this is what you should end up with.

Use the piece of cardboard as a stencil and trace the design on the red and black construction paper. Then cut out the design on the paper and glue to the top and bottom of the cardboard stencil.

Place on top of black paper then trace. Repeat with red paper. Then have student cut out the tracings.

Glue the red to the top and black to the bottom.

Use the bottom of cool whip container to trace a circle on another piece of cardboard then cut out the circle. Set the circle aside for later.

Take the red tissue paper and set the cool whip container on top. Glue around inner base and fold in the tissue paper around the container. Add more glue on the overlapping tissue paper.

Hint: I doubled up the tissue paper to make it darker.

Take the small circular piece of cardboard add glue and press down inside the cool whip container to hold down the tissue paper.

Use a pentagon shape from a puzzle to trace out the badge, cut it out then write a FD (fire department) in bold black letters. Glue to the front of the tissue covered cool whip container or top of the hat.

Push the cool whip top of the hat through the hole of the brim. Then try it on!

As stated before, should've used a larger rimmed bowl. Next time, live and learn.

The Little Engineer got a kick out of his fireman hat.

Then we read the story~
Stay tuned for a post on Fire Unit day 4 Lab!
Jenna

Fire Unit and Lapbook Day 2

For day two of our Safety Unit via Fire/firefighters we did a few more activities in the lapbook and binder of free activities from Homeschool Creations Printables then tried a new cute craft from Tippytoe Crafts.

Supplies:

• White, red and brown or peach construction paper
• Finger paint
• Hole puncher
• markers
• Glitter glue
• Glue stick

*Tip: Teacher make the craft first to give your kids an example to go by, as you can see from the above picture my hand barely fit on the paper.

Fire Unit Study and Lapbook

What goes out in the rain?
What dies when it drinks water?
I live off myself and when I'm finished I will go out. What am I?
FIRE

It is Safety Week including unit studies on Fires/Firefighters and the Police.
As it turned out the Sunday before we were to start our fire/police units on safety and hazards our church had a fire drill to ensure the safety of our kids during which the Sunday school teachers helped all the little ones outside. It was the perfect way to start our week because I little tend to do, MANY questions came. They wanted to know why the church had a fire drill if there was no fire, and why they had to go outside, and on and on. Therefore, I had the priveledge of answering such questions and then explained that we would be learning much more throughout the week ahead.

We began with a quickie review with our Fire School Lap Book for my Pre-Ker and a binder full of activities for my first grader. Follow the link below to find fun printables for your toddler, K4, K5 and even more links from other blogs all FREE.

Find these Fire Safety Printables

We are going to do about 4 lapbook activities per day.

And another 3-4 individual activites per day.

This is what the Free Lap Book looks like. Its simple to make and easy for even your youngest students to use. Thanks Homeschool Creations for you cute Lapbooks!

To make it a little harder for my first-grader I had him circle the beginning sounds of each picture then spell the word on his writing tablet. I have to say it was so cute how thought "extinguisher" was spelled.

We wrapped up day one with a cute story from the Little Critter books Adventures of Little Critter: To The Rescue by Mercer Mayer.

The boys especially love it when Fireman Joe breaks down the door to the basement where Little Critters' dad is stuck.

 Fire safety can be fun its also important to teach kids honestly about the dangers of fire and because we homeschool I personally think its extra important in the event that we actually did have a fire and mommy needs help from my big boy helpers.

Watch for more posts as we continue on this week!
Jenna