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Every educational institution pays great attention to fire topics, and the task of parents is to promote such upbringing of the child at home. When making crafts, children gain certain labor skills and develop fine motor skills; they become familiar with fire safety rules and the difficulties of working in the Ministry of Emergency Situations.
Crafts can be taken to kindergarten or school, submitted to a competition, or simply used as a toy.
In the works on the topic under consideration, the following main plots stand out:
- What causes a fire and how dangerous it is. You can reflect the following directions: “Matches are not a toy”, “Be careful with fire”, “Do not light a fire in nature”, “From a spark begins a flame”, etc.
- Actions in case of fire. Of particular interest are fire extinguishing means and equipment. A bright fire truck is a popular craft. By making a fire shield, the child gets acquainted with the basic methods of fighting a fire.
Children's crafts can be created from different materials depending on the age and skills of the child. It is important to start with simple things, gradually moving on to more complex products.
Explaining to a child the rules of handling fire using crafts
Reinforcing fire safety information through crafts is the most effective way for children to remember fire safety rules. Topics for crafts can be different, depending on what needs to be consolidated in the child’s mind:
- fire situations;
- child's behavior in case of fire;
- fire hazardous items;
- firefighter profession;
- how to put out a fire.
Note! These are the basic ideas for crafts that a child can do with his own hands. Depending on the age and level of training of the child, you can choose the type of applied art.
Holiday card
During drawing lessons, students are given thematic tasks dedicated to holidays associated with military exploits and the eternal memory of heroes. The most symbolic thing in this case is the image of the “eternal flame” on a wall newspaper or postcard.
The ability to draw stylized flames can be useful for novice artists, especially when creating work to participate in school competitions or congratulate veterans.
On a sheet of paper you need to draw a five-pointed star, the foreground of which will remain visible in the final drawing, and the background will be covered by fire. For greater clarity, the star should be built completely so that it looks as realistic and correct as possible.
In the foreground, the height of the ends of the five-pointed star should be the highest, compared to the sides. You need to draw a flame on top, starting with an oval, in the center of which is the gas burner chute device.
In a circle there are flames of different heights with stripes of brightness inside, which can be emphasized with felt-tip pens.
To satisfactorily depict a flame in drawings, you need to arm yourself with theoretical knowledge, since even having the opportunity to observe live fire, it is difficult to draw it from life, especially for inexperienced artists.
A particle of the fire element will turn out to be the brightest and most realistic if you correctly construct the contours of the flames, and then do not spare bright colors.
To the competition
Children try to make beautiful and original crafts that will be presented at the competition.
First you need to decide on the topic:
- "Fire in the Forest";
- "Children and Fire";
- “Fire is our enemy and friend” and so on.
At the second stage, kids make crafts. For example: a model of a helicopter for extinguishing fires, a fire truck made of buttons, or an original volumetric exhibition.
For kindergarten
For the middle group
For the older group
For schoolchildren
Pupils in grades 3–4 make complex applications. Children can already sew a figurine of a rescuer and dress him up in firefighter clothes. Boys build large fire trucks, helicopters and other equipment from matches.
Fire flame with wood
Often there is a need to draw fire in stages with firewood, when children and young artists are busy creating entire series of pictures and comics.
A fire with wood will be built from two geometric shapes, one of which is a circle of fire tongues, and the other is a square or rectangular outline for the arrangement of burning logs.
The silhouettes of the firewood should be positioned in such a way that their cuts with annual rings and cracks can be seen, which will add more realism and picturesqueness to the work.
Having “folded” an imaginary woodpile on a sheet of paper using a hard pencil, you can draw a circle on top of it and begin to depict a burning fire.
Inside a limited circle, you need to draw zigzag tongues of fire, which are slightly lower in the foreground, and reach their greatest height in the center of the combustion.
Using an eraser, erase all unnecessary lines in the background and around the fire. Then the drawing is given final clarity of contours. Firewood is painted with dark brown pencils or paints with darker spots of bark, annual rings and cracks.
The lightest spot will be the place directly above the firewood, which, for greater contrast, can be left white, and above it an intensely yellow middle of the fiery flashes can be depicted.
The top of the tongues is painted dark red, almost burgundy towards the edges. Smoke around a fire can be shown either as white puffs with dark shadows inside them, or as a dark gray stream shaded with light highlights.
The environment always changes from the light of the flame, and in the picture this is expressed by the emphasized contrast of shadows on objects. The areas facing the flame will always be very light compared to the almost black shadow sides.
Drawings on the topic of fire safety.
Pencil drawing “A fireman extinguishes a fire in a house”
Drawing a fireman is quite a challenging task for preschoolers of any age. But if you do this step by step, the child will easily cope with the task. Where to start and how to draw the details can be seen in the drawings, but an adult will explain much better with his own example. All that remains is to finish drawing the fire in the house and color the drawing.
Everything that the child was told in kindergarten about fire safety, he will remember if these lessons were reinforced with creativity. DIY crafts will help your child learn information. This knowledge will be strengthened and expanded at school. In the meantime, the kindergartener can draw, sculpt and glue, learning the basics of his safety.
Matches are not a toy for children
Be careful, fire!
Pencil sketch of flame
Students may have a question about how to draw a fire for a school exhibition, staging a play, creating greeting cards with the image of the “eternal flame” or assignments on the theme of summer holidays and tourism.
For large works, it may be necessary to prepare several templates for sequential application of different colors on a painting or wall.
To create fire sketches you will need the following materials:
- basis for drawing - paper, canvas, wall, wooden or metal shield;
- a sheet of plain A4 paper for a sketch;
- simple pencils of varying degrees of hardness and softness;
- compass and ruler;
- eraser for erasing extra lines.
First you need to practice on a rough draft with a simple pencil. To do this, you need to beautifully distribute the flames in a given volume and outline gradations in the intensity of the fire in them, which will help show its dynamics and naturalness.
Even in a close-up and stylized drawing, the fire immediately becomes recognizable, thanks to the difference in the stripes of its brightness, which at the top gain maximum red color, and directly above the burning object are almost white.
