5 Great Fire Safety Week Classroom Ideas

Fire safety lessons and activities for elementary students with firefighter holding extinguisher.

Fire Safety Week is near! I have gathered several ideas for you to use in your kindergarten, first-grade, and second-grade classrooms. These fire safety activities for students are essential for student’s understanding of fire safety.

Collect Prior Fire Safety Knowledge

Fire safety week anchor chart with sticky notes for student responses.

This FREEBIE is for an anchor chart. Create an anchor chart with this label in the middle. Then, cover the anchor chart in blank Post-it notes. Students will come up and grab a Post-it note, write what they know about Fire Safety, and stick it back up.

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You could use this as a post-assessment after your unit. You can create the anchor chart and put the Post-it notes on the sign just like the prior knowledge activity. However, this time, students can either write one or two facts they have learned, or they can answer a specific question you ask.

Show a Fire Safety Week Video

BrainPOP Jr. fire safety video lesson on laptop screen for teaching kids.

(Source: Brain Pop Jr. Fire Safety video)

I love all things Annie and Moby. They put all social studies and science topics into language kids can understand and make it very approachable for students. This video covers the basics of fire safety.

Make an educational flip book.

Fire safety reading flip book for kids with firefighter topper.

(Source: Fire Safety Flip Book)

My flip book is a wonderful example of a fire safety activity for elementary students. It comes with a reading passage and comprehension questions. It also has a sorting activity where students can sort between things that are safe and things that are not safe. And finally, there is a writing page where they can write what they know about escaping a fire and what to do if your body is on fire.

Read passages about fire safety.

Differentiated fire safety comprehension passages and questions for kids.

(Source: Fall Passages)

In the picture, you see a differentiated set of nonfiction and fiction fire safety passages. The fire safety nonfiction passage covers the basics of staying safe. The fictional passages are all about a little kiddo watching a fireman work. These passages make for excellent fire safety activities for primary classrooms.