Fire Safety Week isn’t just about drills and checklists—it’s about equipping young learners with the knowledge and confidence they need to stay safe. In preschool and kindergarten classrooms, it’s the perfect time to introduce fire safety in a way that’s developmentally appropriate, engaging, and empowering. When we take the time to teach these critical concepts through hands-on Fire Safety Week activities, we not only help children understand what to do in an emergency—we help them feel brave and capable.

The Importance of Fire Safety Week Activities for Preschool and Kindergarten

Fire Safety Week is about more than just teaching students to “stop, drop, and roll.”

For preschool and kindergarteners, it’s an important opportunity to build lifelong safety habits in a way that feels empowering, not overwhelming. Thoughtful activities during this week can help young learners feel prepared, confident, and connected to their community.

Here’s why Fire Safety Week activities are so important in the early childhood classroom:

• Builds Confidence, Not Fear: Age-appropriate activities help children feel prepared rather than scared when discussing emergencies.
• Encourages Listening and Following Directions: Fire drills and safety games reinforce the importance of quickly and calmly following adult instructions.
• Introduces Community Helpers: Meeting firefighters and learning about their gear helps children recognize that firefighters are helpers, not scary.
• Creates Home-School Connections: Fire Safety Week Activities often inspire discussions at home, encouraging families to create their own fire safety plans together.
• Fosters a Sense of Responsibility: Children understand that even at a young age, they can play an important role in keeping themselves and others safe.
• Supports Cross-Curricular Learning: Fire safety week activities naturally integrate literacy, math, science, and fine motor skills through songs, crafts, and storytelling.
• Helps Normalize Emergency Drills: Practicing drills during Fire Safety Week can make school-wide drills less intimidating later in the year.

15+ Fire Safety Week Activities

Fire Safety Week is the perfect time to weave important safety lessons into your daily routine — without adding extra stress or completely overhauling your lesson plans.

These Fire Safety Week activities can easily be integrated into your morning routine, centers, literacy block, and more!

Fire Safety Rules Book

During our Fire Safety Week celebration, we complete one to two pages from our interactive fire safety rules book.

At the end of the week, the students will have a handy fire shaped book containing all of the fire safety prevention rules. This is a great way to display and solidify their learning!

Fire Safety Kindergarten Centers

During Fire Safety Prevention Month, I love to weave in these fire safety-themed kindergarten centers, including 6 math centers and 6 literacy centers.

Fire Truck Anchor Chart and Labeling

To learn about the five parts of a fire truck, I draw a large fire truck on anchor chart paper! Then we work together as a whole class to label the parts with just words.

As we label, we practice identifying the beginning sounds and use the picture to help us find something that starts with that sound.

After we’ve labeled all the parts of the fire truck, I model how to write a complete sentence using the words from our word wall.

I demonstrate how to start with a capital letter, leave spaces between words, use the labels on our anchor chart to help spell the last word in the sentence, and finish with a period.

Next, I divide the students into small groups and assign each group a different part of the fire truck to label with a sentence. Each student in the group is responsible for writing one word in the sentence. They use our labeled fire truck as a reference to help spell the final word correctly.

Once everyone has finished, I hold up each group’s sentence and we read it together. After reading, we add the sentence to our anchor chart.

Fire Safety Sentences and Emergent Reader

We also reinforce these sight words and predictable sentences while reading our “I Can See the Fire!” emergent reader. Each day, we focus on a different skill.

One day, we hunt for the word “can.” Another day, we search for “see,” and then for “the.” We also find the periods and talk about the meaning of the exclamation point on the last page.

During our whole group reading block, the students help me “mix and fix” the same sentences from our emergent reader. Later, I add those sentences to our pocket chart center so they can continue practicing independently.

Fire Truck Craft

One of my favorite fire safety week activities is this fire truck craft!

There are two versions of this craft, one in which the students label the fire truck and the other in which the students add the sentence “I can see the fire truck.”

Whichever version you choose, the steps for assembling the fire truck are the same. You can find the full step-by-step directions in this post!

Firefighter Visit

As a grade-level team, we always make it a priority to invite our local firefighters to visit and teach our students about fire safety, their gear, and the important role they play in keeping our community safe.

During their visit, the firefighters introduce themselves, show off their gear, and explain how each tool is used. They often bring a fire truck for the children to explore, demonstrate safety techniques, and answer all sorts of curious questions.

Firefighter Thank You Cards

Before the firefighters leave, we give them these firefighter thank you cards! If you are unable to host a firefighter visit, you can always mail or drop off the cards at your local fire station.

This is a great activity to complete during your writing block or as a morning work activity!

Firefighter Tools

Once, we learn about firefighter tools from our firefighter friends, we complete this pocket chart sort where we identify tools a firefighter uses versus tools they do not use.

Students then get to strengthen their fine motor skills as they color, cut, sort, and glue the tools.

Firefighter Circle Map

This FREE interactive firefighter circle map is another great way to learn all about firefighters while identifying those important beginning sounds.

Firefighter Poem

During our shared reading time, we read this “I’m a Little Firefighter” poem!

With our firefighter poem, we’ll find our new word wall word “my,” identify any other words on the word wall, practice naming and supplying words that rhyme, as well as locate the commas.

Firefighter Game

As an extension to our firefighter poem, we play a fun game of “Extinguish the Letter Sounds!“

I’ll call out a letter or sound, and a student will “extinguish” it by swatting the correct letter with a flyswatter. For a little friendly competition, you can have two students race to find and swat the same letter or sound. The first one to “extinguish” it wins!

Fire Safety Expert Helmet

To wrap up the week, students create their very own fire safety expert helmet!

After coloring and cutting it out, I attach each helmet to a sentence strip using a staple. Students love wearing their helmets proudly, showing off everything they’ve learned about fire safety!

Fire Safety Books for Kids

Throughout Fire Safety Prevention Week, I love to incorporate as many fire safety books! These fiction and nonfiction books allow students to learn all about fire drills, firefighters, fire trucks and more! For a full list of fire safety books, head to this post!

Fire Safety Week Activities

Grab the fire safety week activities bundle, including the fire truck craft and interactive fire safety rules book, here!

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