The first “thing” E really got into was typically boy: fire and fire fighters! He recently started playing with his Hape Firehouse and that inspired me to set up a week of fire preschool!
Several of the printables used in this theme are from the Fire Fighter Printables Pack. Thank you for the always wonderful resources!
Feel free to step back in time to our 14 Fire Tot Trays and 12 More Fire Tot Trays, or read on for more on our 12 Fire Preschool Trays!
- Fire Fighter 3-Part Cards
- Color Fire Extinguishers
- Fireman Sam Books
- Rescue Bots Firefighters! Book
- Word Search
- Number Matching
- Dot to Dot Firehouse
- Curious George and the Firefighters
- Paper Piecing Flame Craft
- Cutting Strips
- Connect Four Game
- Number Maze
- We used these cute cards in tot school! Thank you Our Little Monkeys for this activity from the Fire Fighter Tot Pack!
- Thank you to Gift of Curiosity for this fun coloring activity! We matched it with some simple crayons.
- At this point, this is an oldie but a goodie. I do not need to rant again about how we only like the “middle” Fireman Sam – post claymation but pre-Americanization. Anyway…
- This is a cute set of Fireman Sam Books that we ordered from the U.K.
Rescue Bots Firefighters! Book
- It wouldn’t be fire preschool without Heatwave and he stars in this Rescue Bots Firefighters! Book!
- This cute book wonderfully combines the familiar characters of Heatwave, Kade and Cody from Rescue Bots with real photos of firefighters and their equipment.
- I love the word searches that are included inGift of Curiosity Printables!
- For this activity, we started out with all the firetrucks from the Minimotors Counters.
- I wrote the numbers and words for 1-6 on small labels to encourage matching up the numeral and word!
- I was impressed at how E instantly colored in this firehouse after connecting the dots. Thank you Gift of Curiosity for the creative activity!
Curious George and the Firefighters
- Here we combine a classic book with coloring pages to match!
- We start off of course with the cute Curious George and the Firefighters book.
- Then all we needed were matching coloring pages and Twistables pencils!
- I love to put out a paper craft whenever possible! Here we make cute little flames.
- I used some paper scraps in various shades of yellow, red, and orange, but if you need to replenish your supply get a great deal on colored paper!
- I also included smaller scraps of gold paper to be the back, “pop-up” part of the flame.
- All I did was make a sample with varying sizes of color to look like a flame, then glued a folded gold piece on the back to allow it to stand on its own.
- I liked the variety among the cutting strips included in the Gift of Curiosity fire-themed printables pack!
- It’s red and yellow! So we thought that was enough to put out the classic Connect Four game in this week of fire preschool!
- This is the last activity that we used (for now) from the Fire Fighter Printables Pack!
- I wrote the numbers to match on red and yellow color coding labels so he could focus on getting them in order.
This is surely the longest time between the ““tot school” and “preschool” versions of a theme, and was interesting to see that gap. Both instances of fire tot school were before I had a job and I appreciated the effort I put in back then! Time sure flies.
This has been shared with Montessori Monday, Good Tips Tuesday, Hip Homeschool Hop, and Small Victories Sunday!