It is useful for every child to know the basics of fire safety, but the child may still be too young for special classes. Simple and unusual crafts on the topic of fire safety for school and kindergarten will help diversify the process of learning necessary and important information.
Drawings and applications, three-dimensional installations can decorate a child’s room or become exhibits at a school exhibition. It’s good if there is a firefighter in the family or among friends and he can answer the children’s curious questions, and the creative process itself can be realized together with the child.
Subject Features
Every educational institution pays great attention to fire topics, and the task of parents is to promote such upbringing of the child at home. When making crafts, children gain certain labor skills and develop fine motor skills; they become familiar with fire safety rules and the difficulties of working in the Ministry of Emergency Situations.
Crafts can be taken to kindergarten or school, submitted to a competition, or simply used as a toy.
In the works on the topic under consideration, the following main plots stand out:
- What causes a fire and how dangerous it is. You can reflect the following directions: “Matches are not a toy”, “Be careful with fire”, “Do not light a fire in nature”, “From a spark begins a flame”, etc.
- Actions in case of fire. Of particular interest are fire extinguishing means and equipment. A bright fire truck is a popular craft. By making a fire shield, the child gets acquainted with the basic methods of fighting a fire.
Children's crafts can be created from different materials depending on the age and skills of the child. It is important to start with simple things, gradually moving on to more complex products.
Positive points
Numerous do-it-yourself traffic rules crafts for a schoolchild or kindergarten child help children understand why road users should give way to each other, what dangerous situations can be, and what non-compliance with traffic rules can lead to.
An easy and relaxed manner is the best way to convey the topic of “safety” to children from various perspectives. Crafts on the topic of traffic rules for kindergarten aim not only to show dangerous situations, but also to explain how they can be avoided.
Traffic safety applique
The heroes of educational products - funny little animals and their helpers - help little ones and school-age children quickly remember the required rules.
Paper crafts
The simplest paper fire truck can be made using matchboxes:
- Its base is made up of 4 boxes, stacked in 2 rows in height.
- The fifth box is installed on top in the middle and imitates the cabin.
- All elements are glued together to form a rigid frame.
- Next, the workpiece is carefully covered with red paper on all sides.
- The windows are made of white paper, and yellow paper circles are glued as headlights.
- The fire escape is assembled from 2 parallel wooden branches (skewers) and transversely assembled matches. The ladder can be secured with plasticine.
- Wheels are taken from broken toy cars or cut out of cardboard.
With the help of adults, it is easy to make paper crafts using the papercraft technique. To do this you will need a thick sheet of paper. The turn of the car is drawn and painted on it. The photo shows a diagram of the headquarters fire truck. The workpiece is carefully cut out with scissors, and the parts are bent in the right places, glued together along the flaps, and the craft is ready.
You can also glue simple compositions from paper. A green background is created on a solid base (cardboard, plywood). A village house is made of paper. Windows and doors made of colored paper are drawn or glued on it, as well as flames escaping from the window. The craft is fixed to the base. A small fire truck is made in the same way.
What toys can you make with your own hands?
- Made from fabric and scraps;
- From felt;
- From paper;
- Made of wood;
- Made from metal elements.
There are many variations, it all depends on the imagination and idea.
Plasticine models
One of the first craft materials that a child gets acquainted with in early childhood is plasticine. You can make a beautiful fire truck out of it.
Master Class:
- Two large parts are formed from red plasticine - the base and the cabin, which are connected to each other.
- Windows made of thinly rolled white plates, yellow circles of headlights, a small blue signal light and a black bumper (a strip of black plasticine at the front bottom of the cab) are fixed to the cab.
- Thin strips and a number (01) made of white plasticine, as well as a fire hose coil in the form of a spiral made of gray plasticine flagellum, are installed on the base.
- The wheels are made of 2 parts: first, a disk is formed from black plasticine, a notch (tread) is applied to it along the perimeter, and a yellow circle is attached in the center.
- The ladder is made of gray material: cylinders with a diameter of 5-7 mm are formed and installed in parallel. Steps of the same color are attached to them.
Plasticine is a very malleable material. In addition to the car, you can make figures of firefighters out of it. A firefighting helicopter or airplane looks modern.
Applications
One of the most common trends in fire themes is applications. A simple craft in the shape of a fire truck is made from colored paper. The photo shows a cutting diagram. The outline of the parts is drawn on paper and cut out. On a thick sheet of paper on which the desired color background is created, the largest parts are first glued, and then the small ones are attached to them.
It is more difficult to make a composition. The photo shows a firefighter fighting a fire. His figurine can be cut out from a magazine or printed on a color printer, assembled from a certain number of parts cut out of colored paper. Lines and very small details are drawn with a felt-tip pen.
To the competition
Children try to make beautiful and original crafts that will be presented at the competition.
First you need to decide on the topic:
- "Fire in the Forest";
- "Children and Fire";
- “Fire is our enemy and friend” and so on.
At the second stage, kids make crafts. For example: a model of a helicopter for extinguishing fires, a fire truck made of buttons, or an original volumetric exhibition.
For kindergarten
For the middle group
For the older group
For schoolchildren
Pupils in grades 3–4 make complex applications. Children can already sew a figurine of a rescuer and dress him up in firefighter clothes. Boys build large fire trucks, helicopters and other equipment from matches.
Drawings
Crafts in the form of drawings require certain skills, but in kindergarten one should not strive for artistic performance, the main thing is that children feel the importance of their work.
The photo shows an example of how a child sees the process of extinguishing a fire in a house using fire equipment. Of course, parents should help as much as possible in choosing a plot, then the best drawings can be submitted to the competition.
Children's creativity uses colored pencils, felt-tip pens, and wax crayons. Gradually mastering watercolor and gouache.
Another direction is drawings by adults for children. They must reflect basic fire safety rules. The photo shows how you can attract children's attention to the phone number to call in case of a fire.
“From one small spark the forest lights up, my friend!”
When teaching fire safety, much attention is paid to open fire as a source of danger. Bonfires, lit curtains, a saucepan on the stove and, finally, the ill-fated poplar fluff.
All this requires attention and deep study.
Little attention. The children are not at all interested in the lessons. Watch a movie or cartoon - yes! However, if you interest children in non-standard works and even offer to participate in a competition, then there will be attention and persistence. As an option - the all-Russian competition “Burning Bush”. So, we conclude: “You must arouse the child’s interest in any activity!”
Crafts from cereals
Quite simple crafts can be created from semolina. To do this, colored semolina is prepared: the cereal is mixed in a container with gouache of the desired color until a rich shade is obtained and dried. For a fire truck you will need red, black and gray semolina, as well as undyed (white) semolina.
The outline of the machine is drawn on a sheet of thick paper or cardboard. Glue is applied inside the lines and red material is poured in a thin, even layer, and excess grain is shaken off. Then other colors are carefully formed into small details. When the picture is ready, glue is applied to the paper outside the outline, creating a general background of unpainted semolina.
Quilling
This is a very simple method to implement, but it offers a huge amount of creative potential. Its original spaces allow the flame to be conveyed in different ways. Using paper of different colors, you can create unique combinations.
Torn applique technique.
Fire can be made using such an interesting method.
A master class on this technique is very easy to conduct.
- We take blue paper with a thickness of 4. The base backing (the background color of the paper) should be thick. Otherwise, the glue will be heavily impregnated and the sheet may not hold up.
- A pencil drawing is applied to the main pattern of the background sheet.
- Sheets of paper representing flames are prepared. We carefully tear off the paper, creating pieces of different colors and sizes.
- We take larger parts and begin to fill the space with them (flame, fire, bonfire). So medium size. We end up small. Each piece is glued separately. Otherwise, the work will look sloppy.
It is necessary to ensure that the parts do not spread along the edges of the structure. Otherwise you will end up with sloppy work.
At the same time, we talk about how to put out fires. What materials do we use to extinguish? Then, quietly influencing the child, we try to convey to him the necessary information.
All that remains is to organize the exhibition and photograph it. So that the children in the future can see what beauty they can make with their own hands!
More complex crafts
As you gain certain skills, you can move on to more complex crafts. Already at school age, interest in other technologies appears. Attention is paid to quality of execution, volume and layout.
Volume projects
Volumetric crafts are created in different ways:
- Volumetric figure. An example would be a campfire, a common cause of fire. Logs (cylinders of thick paper) are laid out on a sheet of cardboard; a bunch of “flames” cut out from colored paper in red, yellow and orange are collected in the center.
- Three-dimensional pictures are made in the form of a double-leaf postcard made of thick paper. On the inside of one of the halves, various figures are glued to the bent edge: an image of a fire, trees, which are pressed by the second flap, but when it is turned away, they take a vertical position. On the second half, a drawing or appliqué is made. When positioned vertically, it creates the main background of the picture.
Complex crafts are available for older children. The photo shows the three-dimensional composition “Fire Extinguishing”. In it, each element is made in different ways. For example, in the photo the fire truck is made of Lego, the firefighters are made of plasticine, and the burning house is made of wood rods laid in the form of a log house.
Velvet
And also mohair - a light imitation of animal skin, it will help create the mood.
Dough crafts
Salt dough successfully replaces plasticine. It is also malleable, but when hardened it becomes hard and can retain its shape for a long time. This blank can be painted and varnished. Dough recipe:
- For 200 mg of flour add 150 mg of table salt and 5 tbsp. vegetable oil.
- The components are diluted with water to the desired consistency.
From the prepared plastic mass you can easily fashion a fire truck and a helicopter, houses engulfed in flames, emergency workers, etc. The workpiece is placed in the oven and dried at a temperature of +70...+80 0C for 1 hour. Accelerated drying is provided at a temperature of +110...+120 0C for 25-30 minutes. After cooling, the hardened workpiece can be painted in any color using acrylic paints.
Trimming
Unusual crafts are obtained using the trimming technique. Essentially, this is a mosaic laid out from paper elements that will have a cone shape. To do this, small squares are cut from corrugated (crepe) paper and rolled into a cone. Using trimming you can make spectacular volumetric applications and entire panels. Glue is applied to a dense base and the conical elements are carefully installed one by one. They are pressed using wooden sticks, toothpicks or knitting needles.
Fabric crafts
Applications using colored patches look very impressive. Such paintings have an important advantage: they can be made soft using thick fabric as a base. The photo shows a warning picture that will remind you of the dangers of matches. The necessary details are sewn onto the woven base. To add volume, cotton wool is placed under some flaps. Human figures or his face can be embroidered or drawn.
Another direction is voluminous woven crafts. In the photo there is a “Fun Fire Extinguisher”. You can use foam rubber or polystyrene as a base. The base is covered with red fabric. Characteristic small details are sewn on. They can be made from ribbons, braid, felt. This craft is absolutely safe for kids.
Crafts from napkins
Paper napkins make magnificent crafts. One popular option is to roll napkins into small balls and soak them in gouache of different colors. From such elements you can put together a three-dimensional picture. The technology is the same as when working with beads.
Even a small master can make voluminous figures from such lumps. The photo shows a small composition on a fire theme. The frame of a machine or structure is assembled from matchboxes or cardboard boxes. On top it is tightly covered with balls of napkins, painted in the desired color.
Crafts reflecting fire-fighting themes, made by a child together with an adult, help to learn the basic rules of fighting fire. They can be made from different materials and in different ways. It is important to inspire the little master to be creative, and he will receive the necessary information during the process of work.
Dough as a material
Crafts about fire safety can be made from dough. Modeling from salt dough is similar to modeling from plasticine. Preparing the dough is not at all difficult: mix 220 grams of fine salt with 220 grams of flour, add two tablespoons of water, 130 milliliters of vegetable oil and a little gouache or vegetable juice to color the dough.
Mix everything thoroughly, the dough should be stiff. Children will enjoy sculpting with dough.
- To sculpt from dough, you will need available materials: modeling knives, boards and water to wet the pieces of dough during the process of creating figures.
- After all the figures are ready, you need to paint them. For this you will need paints or gouache.
- To dry the craft, you can use the oven, setting it to the lowest temperature.
The dough craft cannot be placed on the battery, because it will crack.
