6. Role Play Games of “STAY LOW AND GO”, and “STOP, DROP AND ROLL”
From time to time it would be extremely useful for the children’s fire safety practice to play the “Stop, Drop and Roll” game. This game is fun for children, and the lesson they teach can be invaluable for them. Another kind of game for children to learn fire safety rules is “Stay Low and Go”. You are to press an alarm (ring the bell or use any thing, which produces some kind of sound) and the children are expected to practice these skills as fast as they can. However, before playing any of these games, you are to explain, when they are to “stay low and go”, and in which situations it would be better to “stop, drop and roll” for them. Do not forget to remind children, that they are to cover their faces while rolling.
7. Alarm! It is Drill Time
Along with your youngsters, you should make a special fire safety evacuation plan. Then, one of your children (kids should better do it in turn) ring a bell or some other “alarm” and shout “FIRE! FIRE!” at the time of the day he or she chooses. The rest of family members are to evacuate according to the special fire safety evacuation plan. Being a babysitter, a teacher, or some other childcare provider, you may even create some kinds of unexpected obstacles, which will prevent children leave the house of the building through that planned route. This is done in order to make them create some other “evacuation options”.
8. Hats Off To Fire Fighters
You can make your own fire fighter hats along with your child / children. After that you may propose them to play the firefighters game. Tell them about al the equipment that any fire fighter needs and how each item, included in this equipment, works. It would be useful for you kids to learn about how the fire extinguisher works and to see it on their own. Tell them where it is located in case of emergency.
9. Find the Meeting Spot
You should tell your child / children where they are to go after they leave the burning house or building. Do it once, and then make them brainstorm occasionally. There is a fun game, to consider: you may have several children sit down in a circle, and the first of them should whisper to his or her neighbour, who is to pass it to the next child, and so on, as to the meeting place. The unexpected sound of alarm must have children meet at the place, after that the caregiver or teacher is to find them.
10. Detect the Smoke Detectors
You should let your child / children look and even touch a smoke detector alarm. Do not forget to tell him or her, of what it consists and how it works. Ask your youngsters to count how many smoke detectors there are available in a building or at home. If you are a babysitter or some other kind of caregiver, make children ask their parents whether the batteries are changed regularly. Being a parent, let kids observe the very process of batteries changing themselves, they may even take part in it by taking the old battery and throwing it away and handling the new one to you. If you have preschoolers of children of young school ages, you may turn the hunt into a scavenger hunt, complete with fire – safety related clues.
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