Fire Safety and Crafts

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Fire safety and crafts often go hand in hand. Young children often having trouble grasping safety concepts, but when you add in a craft slant, they’ll be more likely to have fun while learning the safety tips, and remember the tips longer.

Fire safety crafts are great, but some skills, like escape routes, should be practiced.

Main Fire Safety Points for Kids

Fire safety and crafts don’t have to be a big fancy ordeal; even simple art projects and crafts can relate fire safety tips to kids. That said, there are some key fire safety tips that young children should focus on learning.

  • Not to put items on hot objects, for example, no tossing a dirty (or clean) shirt over a lamp.
  • No playing with any fire starting items, including matches, lighters, lit cigarettes in an ashtray, and appliances like stoves.
  • Staying clear of hot items like a woodstove, campfire, fireplace, stove, pot, or room heater.
  • Not playing around with electrical plug-ins. This includes, sticking items into a plug-in.
  • Stay away from candles.
  • Telling adults when a fire hazard, like one of the above, is noticed.
  • How firemen may look if they come in the house. Kids can often panic when they see someone they don’t know. Scary big fire safety suits don’t help much either. The last thing firemen want is for children to be hiding from them if they need to help them. This is a key point that craft projects are very useful for, because it’s a visual challenge for children.
  • What to do if a fire alarm sounds.
  • Leaving a fire quickly – no stopping to gather toys, pets, or other family members.
  • Once you get out of a fire; stay out. Never go back inside.
  • Calling 911 once you’re out.

Kids can also be taught through crafts about tips that they can remind adults about such as:

  • Putting out campfires completely.
  • Making sure that cigarettes are put out, or better yet, not smoking at all; at the very least, not inside the house.
  • Turning off appliances when leaving the house, such as a space heater.
  • Checking smoke detectors and changing the batteries at least once a year.

What Fire Safety Crafts Cannot Accomplish

Fire safety and crafts only go so far. All individuals, even small children, need to gain some fire safety skills by doing, not by simply completing, art projects. There are some tips you just need to practice in order to perfect. Fire safety rules that should always be practiced include:

  • Stop drop & roll if you catch on fire.
  • To get down low if there’s a fire.
  • Multiple escape routes at all the places children frequent, such as home, school, and after school groups.
  • Where to meet afterwards if there is a fire – at the neighbors, a specific tree, or elsewhere.
  • Dialing 911 on a telephone. Be sure to practice on cell phones too, the keypad is very different than on a normal phone, and kids should know how to use both.
  • What a smoke alarm sounds like.
  • How to touch a door to see if it’s hot before opening it.
  • How to open security bars on windows and how to unlock doors.

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