 | cut the lid off an egg carton
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| Paint (or color with marker) the lid red.
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| While the paint is drying, print out the template below.
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| As an alternative to the wheels on the templates, cut 2 circles out of black construction
paper
 | (you can have the children trace the lid from a baby food jar or
orange juice container -- preschool kids enjoy tracing). Use white
crayon, chalk or pencil crayon for tracing. |
| Allow the children to cut out their circles with safety scissors (or
supervise them closely while they use regular scissors). |
| The wheels don't have to be perfectly round -- let them have fun. |
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| OR
| use the lids from milk jugs as an alternative to construction paper
wheels
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| OPTIONAL: Also while the paint is drying, have the children cut
small images of people from magazines or coloring books or let them draw
their own.
| once again, let the children roughly cut out the images with safety
scissors.
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| Once the paint is dry, glue on the wheels, ladder and the "Fire
911" label or if your child is printing, let them print
"FIRE" on the truck with black marker.
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| Jodie used a Rolo candy wrapped in red foil for the light/siren (very
creative)
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| OPTIONAL: Glue the images of people onto the fire truck. The carton
we used had holes down the center, so we glued the people into the
holes.
| If yours doesn't have holes, just glue the people onto the fire truck... you
can draw "windows" around them with a black marker.
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