We are coming to the end of our week on fire safety and let me tell you, it has been one busy week! I thought of so many ways we could explore fire safety and a hands down favorite of the week was putting out fires with our DIY fire extinguishers…
I found a little fire fighter vest, hat and pretend fire extinguisher to help us introduce our fire safety topic during circletime and then decided it would be fun to do more with a set of DIY fire extinguishers…
I made a set of DIY fire extinguishers by covering empty spray bottles with red and black tape then adding a simple paper label to each one so they each resembled a real looking fire extinguisher then we filled them all with water. The children enjoyed spraying the extinguishers outside and in our outdoor classroom…
The children went outside and painted fire on our trees with red and yellow tempera paint..
We had flames going up all over the yard…
It’s a good thing that we had our fire extinguishers ready to go…
The young firefighters went right to work putting out every flame they could find…
They were serious about getting the job done…
They looked high and low until the flames were all under control but then…
Our young firefighters discovered that there were more flames all around the windows of our outdoor classroom.
In fact, there were even flames blazing up on our firehouse…
Some of the children had a good idea to call 911 and get help quick!…
Help came just in time…
The firefighters took care of all the fires and could now head home to rest after a very big day on the job…
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We’ve painted the trees before, but we’ve never “set them on fire”. What a great idea! It’s definitely going into our dramatic play file for our next fire fighters unit.
This is AWESOME, thanks for sharing.I’m so ready to implement these ideas to my students. LOVVVVVVVVVVVVE IT!
Yay!! Have fun!
I have this awesome wood playhouse we built for the daycare children (looks like a real house, front porch, working windows, etc) I set my fog machine up – opened some windows so the smoke would come out the windows. My group donned their fireman hats and worked together on the hose to “put out the fire”. I’ll post a pic in the comment section of this thread on fb. I then opened the big side door so they could see how smoke moves snd why they need to stay close to the ground.
That is FABULOUS Joanne!