Five Little Firefighters

Today we talked about the important role of firefighters. Our craft project was based on a poem called "Five Little Firefighters." I got the idea from KidsSoup, but because I'm not a member I only had a tiny picture to go by. So I just made it up as best I could.

Yesterday I got a red hand print from all of the kids. I was so happy with myself for remembering to put the print near the top of the paper to leave room for the poem below. I completely forgot I needed to leave room at the top for the heads and hats!

Oops! Oh well, it was an easy fix. I just cut out the hand prints and put them on another piece of paper. Then the kids used a glue stick to add heads to the fingertips.

The heads are just circles I traced from a marker cap onto a few different colors of paper. Then they glued on firefighter hats.

The hats are a little silly. I did the best I could. I made two kinds, one with a short rim on one side and a long rim on the other (like the firefighter is looking sideways) and the other one with two short rims (as if the firefighter is looking straight ahead). But that was unnecessary because the kids didn't pay attention to that when they drew on the faces. So I would say you only need one kind of hat. After drawing faces, the kids drew arms -- basically just red lines coming off the fingers.

Finally, they drew the hose, which started at the pinky and went to the thumb. And then they used a glue bottle and blue glitter (say that 5 times fast!) to make the water coming out of the hose. I added a copy of the poem to the bottom of the paper.

These turned out pretty cute! Here's the poem I used:

Five little firefighters sleeping in a row.
Ring goes the bell, down the pole they go.
They jump on the engine and put out the fire.
Now they're back home, but they sure are tired.

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