Cc Community Helpers
Letter: Cc
Number: 3 - Three
Shape: Oval
Color: Yellow
This packet is filled with many fun hands on activities that help teach your child about community helpers, who and what they are. It contains several pages of instructions for activities that include the letter C, the number 3, oval shape and color
yellow. It has instructions and patterns for making yellow playdough, a community helpers spinning wheel, community helpers paper figures, a paper puppet theater, match up games, a fireman’s hat, and more. It teaches your child about firemen as community
helpers and they also learn about fire safety. The packet includes info on obtaining a FREE fire safety video, workbook and certificate. It includes songs, fingerplays, games and poems that all relate to community helpers and what they do.
Letter and Number Activities
Using the provided letter C outline, fill the letter with items that begin with C. You could use pictures from a magazine, stickers, cotton balls, etc. Another idea is to paint the letter C with a Comb, run the comb through some paint and comb your
letter C, you get a really interesting effect.
Form a "C" shape out of a pipe cleaner or piece of clay.
Look around the room, is there anything that starts with the letter C?
Pass around a picture or cutout of the number 3.
Have the child make the number 3 in the air with their finger.
Using the provided number 3 outline, glue on 3 yellow ovals cut from construction paper.
Go outside, wander around the yard, point to items you can see 3 of (pine cones, trees, etc.)
Color and Shape Activity
Cut a yellow oval from poster board. Have an assortment of small yellow items for the child to glue on the large yellow oval.
Print or color a yellow oval on heavy paper. Cut out the oval, decorate it and provide child with a popscicle stick. Glue the decorated oval to the stick. Or make it in to a necklace.
Physical Activities
For fire safety, practice STOP - DROP and ROLL
Have a practice fire drill
Walk to the nearest place that has community helpers (post office, library, hospital, school bus garage, police station, fire station., 911 facility).
Hands On Activities
Roll yellow playdough into a snake and form the letter "C". For added fun, make yellow playdough using the recipe below.
Playdough Recipe
What you need:
1/2 cup or more water
1/2 cup cooking oil
2 cups flour
2 cups salt
Food coloring (optional)
Oil of Peppermint
What you do:
Mix cooking oil, flour and salt. Add a few drops of food coloring to the water. Gradually add water to the flour mixture. Add a few drops of Oil of Peppermint. Knead until smooth, store in an air tight container.
Make an Oval
Roll yellow playdough into a snake and form an oval. Roll the dough out flat and cut out oval shapes.
Make a Community Helpers Spin Wheel
Using the provided "Community Helpers Wheel" sheet , assemble as directed, have the child tell you which community helper they like best, write it in the wheel. Be sure to talk about each community helper represented on the wheel. Who they are, what they
do, why their job is important.
Community Helpers Paper Figures
Using the provided "Community Helpers Figures", cut them out and glue them to tongue depressors, or glue them to a background that represents their job. You can also make them stand alone by gluing a small stand to their back, or make a puppet stage and
use them in a play. A real fun idea is to enlarge them to 8 1/2 x 11 and replace their face with the child's face from a recent photo.
Community Helpers Town
Using sidewalk chalk, on the driveway, draw a city that contains community helpers buildings such as a hospital, post office, library, etc. Be sure to add a park, a river, whatever makes the town interesting. Play in the town with toy cars and animals.
I Want to Be
Have the child lie on a large sheet of paper. Trace their body and cut them out. Have child decorate the body to match the community helper they want to be.
Community Helpers Theater
Using the provided "Community Helpers Puppet Stage Sheet", color the theater, make a puppet stage by cutting a straight slit from the inside of edge one curtain to the inside edge of the other curtain. Use the figures in the activity above as the
community helpers puppets, glue them to tongue depressors and slide them up through the slit. Put on a play about community helpers and what they do. To keep the slit from tearing apply a layer of masking tape at each edge of the slit.
Community Helpers Match Up
Using the provided "Community Helpers Match Up" sheet , complete the activity as instructed.
Community Helpers Dress Up
Use paper grocery bags to make community helpers uniforms.
Community Helpers Charades
Act out an occupation and have the child try to guess what community helper it is. Take turns with the child.
Fire Safety
Call your local Allstate Insurance Office and ask for their free Fire Safety Video and Kit
Watch the fire safety video. Read and color the pictures in the book that accompanies the video, be sure to tell the agent how many books you need. Practice dialing 9-1-1 (be sure to unhook the phone first). Visit your local 9-1-1 facility and meet the
community helpers that would answer your call in an emergency. Receive a "Deputy Fire Marshal" certificate, also available from Allstate free of charge.
Fire Safety Games
Firehouse:
An outdoor activity. Use riding toys for fire trucks, set up a sleeping area on a blanket a few feet away. Place raincoats and boots nearby, a set for each child along with spray bottles filled with water. Ring a bell, the child gets up, gets dressed as
fast as they can, grabs a water bottle and drives to the fire (a location designated by a red flag). Spray the water to put out fire.
Firemen: (for a group of children)
Have the children sit in a circle with their hands behind their backs. Have one child in the middle, they are the firefighter and pretend they are sleeping. Have the other children recite the poem below while you place a bell in one of their hands, the
child rings the bell and returns it to you. When the poem is done, the firefighter has to guess who rang the bell. Be sure each child has a turn to be the fire fighter.
Firemen, Firemen, hear the alarm
Save the houses, from any harm.
Firemen, Firemen, it's not time to rest
Get up, Get up, Do your Best!
More Fun Hands On Activities
Fire Engine Picture:
Precut circular shapes from black construction paper and rectangle shapes from red construction paper. Have the child paste the shapes together on construction paper to resemble a fire truck. They can add yarn for a hose and toothpicks for a ladder.
Make A Play Size Fire Truck
For each 2 children have 3 pieces of red poster board. Cut poster board in half length ways, cut two of those pieces in half again in the short direction. Using duct or masking tape, tape the truck together to form a rectangle open at the top and bottom,
two long pieces for the sides, two short pieces for front and back. Draw wheels, doors and ladders using permanent marker. Attach shoulder straps using yard by stapling the ends to the front and back of fire truck. Have the children step into the truck
and pull it up, putting the straps over their shoulders. Have a parade. Variation: you could use preassembled boxes.
Medical Community Helpers
Learn who in your community will help you if you become sick or injured. Doctors, nurses, emergency rooms, ambulances, etc. Take a field trip to the hospital or ambulance center.
Dress Up Day:
Have child should dress like a community helper of their choice. The child could also make community helper costumes out of paper grocery bags.
Songs
Here Is An Oval (using the oval cutout from the color and shape activity) (tune: Feres Jacques)
Here is an oval, here is an oval,
How can you tell, how can you tell?
It's shaped like a yellow egg, it's shaped like a yellow egg,
It's an oval, it's an oval.
I Am A Policeman
I am a policeman with my star
I help people near and far
If you have a problem call on me
And I will be there 1, 2, 3
Firefighter’s Song (I’m a Little Teapot)
I’m a fire fighter, my name is John
I put my boots and my helmet on
I hurry to the fire and give a shout
With a burst of water, the fire is out.
Out Goes The Fire (Pop Goes The weasel)
Down the street the engine goes
The firemen fight the fire
Up the ladder with their hose
Out goes the fire.
I Am A Fireman (I’m a Little Teapot)
I am a fireman dressed in red
With my fire hat on my head
I can drive the fire truck, fight fire too
And help make all things safe for you.
Community Helpers Song (Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer)
Mailmen deliver mail
Nurse's help us when were sick
Bankers deposit money
Farmers raise cows, goats and pigs
Doctors, teachers and police
We all need them so
Each one does his important part
Always on the go
Bus drivers, dentists and firemen
Couldn't do without them too
Can't wail until you grow up,
There's so many jobs for you
Fingerplay
Fingerplay: Five Brave Firefighter’s
Five brave firefighter’s sleeping so (lay five fingers across opposite palm)
The bell rings, down the pole they go (wiggle fingers downward)
Jump into the fire truck, hurry down the street (make fingers climb)
Feel the fires heat (wipe forehead)
Five brave firefighter’s (hold up five fingers)
Put out the fire (spray a pretend hose)
Hip Hip Hooray! All the people shout!
Poems
Letter Carrier
Letter carriers haul a heavy pack
Of letters and packages on their back
Step, step, now ring, ring, ring
Oh, what surprises what will they bring?
Mailman
We watch for the mail truck to come down the street
Then we run to the mailbox, eager to greet
Our special mail person
And as you can see
The one who brings our mail
Is a mail lady!
Our Friend
The policeman had many jobs
They never seem to end
But this you must remember
The policeman is your friend
Police Officer
The police officer stands so tall and straight
Holds up his hands for cares to wait
Blows his whistle, tweet, tweet
Until I'm safely across the street
Ten Little Firemen
Ten little firemen
Sleeping in a row
Ding - dong the bell goes so
And down the pole they all go
Off in the fire engine oh, oh, oh
When the fire is out, home they go
Back to bed, ten in a row