Every child should know how to dial 911 in case of a life-threatening emergency. Encourage children to create a paper telephone craft with 10 numbers, a number sign and a star symbol. The teacher can make a few templates for children to trace the telephone onto a piece of construction paper or allow each student to make her own from a model. Practice dialing 911 on the phone and instruct children to only dial that number if an emergency has happened.
Read the traditional story of "Little Red Riding Hood" with a younger class and ask students what they would do if someone they didn't know was inside their home or a family member's home. Stress the importance of stranger danger with the children. Create or print coloring sheets that contain Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf and allow children to color and cut them out. Paste each character onto a wooden craft stick and recreate the story during dramatic play.
Create a fiery piece of art with the children when learning about fire safety. On a piece of painting paper or thick construction paper, squirt thick, 3-inch lines of red, orange and yellow tempera paint that is nontoxic and washable. Encourage the children to wear paint smocks to avoid getting paint on their clothing. Add a few drops of black paint in various spots over the paint lines. Instruct students to cover the paper with a piece of plastic wrap and work the paint around a bit. Carefully lift the plastic wrap from the bottom of the paper toward the top to make the paint appear as flames.
Using a clean, empty milk carton, students can construct and learn the color meanings of a traffic signal. Cut the top portion of the carton off and throw it away. Cover the four sides with black construction paper and allow the children to cut out one red, one yellow and one green circle to paste onto the front of the carton. Add a strip of paper to the top by gluing each end to opposite sides of the carton to construct a handle for the craft.