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DLTK's Crafts for Kids
EASY FIRE
TRUCK CRAFT
This request came in from quite a few
people who wanted something simple to put together when teaching fire
safety. I had a very hard time coming up with a face for my Fire
truck... so I'm going to leave it to the kids to come up with their own name
(I was thinking Fred the Fire Engine, but Tasha insisted that hers be called
Franklin and Kaitlyn decided hers would be Sam).
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This simple fire truck craft requires a printer, a piece of
paper, some crayons (or paint or markers), scissors and glue. I always prefer to use
a heavy paper (like construction paper), but it isn't necessary.
Click here to see the completed
craft made by Alexander (age 3)!
INSTRUCTIONS
 | Print out the template of choice.
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| Colour (where appropriate) and cut out the template
pieces. Adults may need to help with the cutting.
 | If you are doing this craft with a large group,
precut some of the pieces and tape them to another piece of paper
with a small roll of masking tape so they won't wiggle around too
much. When the kids are done coloring, remove the pieces and
they can assemble right away (without waiting for
cutting). |
| Or, have everyone colour their pieces and write
on their names. Have an adult cut out the pieces and keep each
child's together in ziploc baggies or envelopes. Then assemble
the following day.
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| Glue the face onto the front of the fire truck.
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| Glue the back of the truck onto the front.
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| Glue ladder onto the top (see picture at the top of
this page for inspiration).
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| You can stop here and just hang your fire truck on
the wall |
Or you can put it on a larger
collage:
| cut out a picture of a house from a magazine or
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our HOME SWEET HOME template (color)
(B&W) -- instead of gluing
people's photos in the windows, just glue in a piece of wax paper.
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| cut out some strips of red, orange and yellow tissue
of construction paper fire and glue it to the roof of the home.
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| you can also glue on some cotton ball smoke
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| cut out photos of people (the best would be to use
photos of your own family, but you can also use people from magazines or
fliers) and have the family gathered
at the assigned meeting place (as part of your fire safety plan, you
should decide where in your yard/neighbours that everyone should meet once
they get out of the house and then practice that during fire drills)
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| have the friendly fire truck driving up the street to
save the day. |
Templates:
| Close the template window after printing to return to this screen.
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| Set page margins to zero if you have trouble fitting the template on one
page (FILE, PAGE SETUP or FILE, PRINTER SETUP in most browsers). |
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