Children love to be told stories, and showing them a fire story with the help of sock puppets can be fun and educational. Make two sock puppets and call them "Felix Fire" and "Fiona Fire," or something appropriate. These socks can be made by attaching yellow, red and gold paper in fire shapes and some googly eyes on socks. Make another sock puppet called "Tom" or "Jane," a firefighter. Make this puppet by giving it a firefighter's helmet, cut out of a yellow card or material, and perhaps a firefighter's jacket. Have two children puppets: one girl and one boy. The story will be that the children find some matches and start to play with them. As they play, Felix Fire and Fiona Fire come up and the become very scary, but one of the children calls the fire department, and the firefighter comes and saves them.
Discuss with the children what to do if you see somone's clothes catch fire. Demonstrate with another adult the "Stop, drop and roll" technique. Ask the children in small groups to arrange sequence cards with pictures on them as to what order they should do the actions. Use sequence cards for other important fire procedures, such as evacuation or what to do if you see a fire. Make sure the sequence cards have pictures and just simple words in large letters so the children do not get confused.
Give each child a fire safety rule, such as "Don't play with matches" or "Fire extinguishers are not toys," and ask the child to create a picture about that rule. The children can use any materials to make the picture: pencils, pens, scraps of material, felt or cards and stickers. Stick the pictures on the wall next to the sentence that states the rule. This will make a good display that reminds the children of fire safety rules. You can refer back to the pictures on a later occasion.
Using a toy telephone or old mobile phones get the children to practice dialing 911 and stating that it is a fire. Try to get the children to say their telephone number or address. Ask the children their house number and street. Stress to the children that 911 is only dialed in an emergency but is important to learn. Get the children to practice on the phones as they will enjoy playing with the telephones and pretending to make calls.