Fire Safety Bingo Cards With a Safety Message for Every Square

Read a fire safety message; pupils find the matching square and cover it.

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Fire safety words list, 30 words. Paste your own to replace it, or type to add to it.

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How it works

Fire safety bingo for Fire Prevention Week in kindergarten to grade 3: 30 words and phrases, from Smoke alarm to Stop, drop and roll. Each has a short safety message to read out. Cards open at 4 × 4.

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Read the message

Press Call the game, then Call the next one. Read: "Before you open a door, feel it. If it is hot, use your other way out." Pupils cover Feel the door.

For kindergarten

Choose 3 × 3 and keep nine or more words your pupils know, such as Smoke alarm, Firefighter and Stop, drop and roll. The cards redraw from the words that are left.

Questions and answers

How do you play the fire safety bingo game?

Each pupil has a different card of 16 fire safety words. You read a safety message, pupils find the word it is about and cover it. Four in a row wins, and the winner reads back each message.

What should kids do when the smoke alarm sounds?

Stay low, get out, go to the family meeting place and stay outside. The U.S. Fire Administration's messages for kids say never to go back inside for anything.

When is Fire Prevention Week?

It runs Sunday to Saturday in the week that holds October 9. The National Fire Protection Association sponsors it, and many schools teach fire safety that week.

All 30 words

Be ready 7

  • Escape plan Draw a map of your home with every door and window, and plan how you would get out.
  • Exit sign In school and other big buildings, the lit exit sign shows the way out.
  • Fire drill Practice your escape plan with everyone at home, the way you practice fire drills at school.
  • Meeting place Pick one spot outside, in front of your home, where everyone meets after getting out.
  • Smoke alarm A smoke alarm beeps loudly when it senses smoke. When you hear it, get out.
  • Test button Grown-ups push the test button to check the smoke alarm every month.
  • Two ways out Know 2 ways out of every room, in case one way is blocked.

Getting out 7

  • Call 911 Once you are safely outside, call 911 or ask a grown-up to call the fire department.
  • Close the door Close the door behind you as you leave. A closed door can slow smoke, heat and fire.
  • Crawl low Smoke can make a room very dark. Stay low and get to your exit.
  • Feel the door Before you open a door, feel it. If it is hot, use your other way out.
  • Get out If you see or smell smoke, go straight out to your meeting place.
  • Stay out Once you are outside, stay outside. Never go back in for anything.
  • Use the stairs In a fire, take the stairs to get out, not the elevator.

If fire or heat gets you 3

  • Cool water If you get burned, hold the burn under cool water for 3 to 5 minutes and tell a grown-up.
  • Cover your face When you drop and roll, cover your face with your hands.
  • Stop, drop and roll If your clothes catch fire: stop, drop to the ground and roll until the fire is out.

Fire helpers 6

  • Fire extinguisher A tool grown-ups can use on a small fire. Kids get out instead.
  • Fire hydrant Firefighters connect a hose to a fire hydrant to get water.
  • Fire truck Fire trucks carry firefighters, hoses and ladders to a fire.
  • Firefighter Firefighters put out fires and rescue people in emergencies.
  • Helmet Firefighters wear a helmet to protect their heads.
  • Sprinkler A sprinkler in the ceiling sprays water when it senses the heat of a fire.

Safe every day 7

  • Candle Never touch a lit candle.
  • Fire Prevention Week A week every October when schools and fire departments teach fire safety.
  • Lighter Never touch a lighter. If you find one, tell a grown-up.
  • Matches Never touch matches. If you find some, tell a grown-up.
  • Stay 3 feet away Stay at least 3 feet away from stoves, heaters and anything that gets hot.
  • Stove A stove gets very hot. Stay back while grown-ups cook.
  • Tell an adult If you find matches or a lighter, or if you get burned, tell an adult right away.

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