FREE Fire Truck Do-a-Dot Printable (Montessori-Inspired Instant Download)

A fire safety unit is typically a high-interest unit for preschoolers and kindergarteners. And it’s an important unit, helping young children become comfortable with both fire safety rules and firefighters. Today’s free do-a-dot printable is especially high interest for vehicle lovers. As usual, the fire truck do-a-dot printable is super easy to download and prepare.

Montessori-Inspired Printables at Living Montessori Now

My daughter, Chrissy Chitwood (a former Montessori child), and I are partnering to bring you a series of Montessori-inspired printables. The printables are typically themed and use a number of Montessori principles (although you don’t need to be a Montessori teacher or homeschooler to use them):

• They use isolation of quality.
• They use photographs or realistic images to emphasize reality. Whenever I can, I’ll tell you the specific name of the object or animal featured on the credits page. For this printable, I researched the difference between a fire truck and a fire engine. I chose a fire truck because “truck” is easier than “engine” to sound out and build phonetically.
• They typically use traditional Montessori colors such as red for consonants and blue for vowels.
• They use lowercase letters, which are what we introduce letter sounds with in Montessori education. (Children tend to pick up the uppercase letters without being introduced if they’re introduced to the lowercase letter sounds.)
• They often feature themed printable versions of Montessori materials.

Free Fire Truck Do-a-Dot Printable for the Letter F

To download the fire truck do-a-dot printable, click here and then click on the file image in the upper right corner of the PDF to save to your computer (just choose where you want it saved).

Montessori-Inspired Activities Using the Fire Truck Do-a-Dot Printable for the Letter F (and the i_e Phonogram)

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Tray with Fire Truck Do-a-Dot Work Plus Phonics Activities

Note: This is just one example of how you can use the do-a-dot printables. There are many ways to use our do-a-dot printables. Scroll down to see examples from previous posts. Just choose an activity that’s appropriate for your child’s age and skill level.

I used a Multicraft tray and red buttons (5/8″ or 3/4″ work well) with quick sticks and an “f” font card from our Montessori-inspired fire safety pack (subscriber freebie). The font card has cursive letter “f” and firefighter. I like to introduce children to both print and cursive letters.

You could have a variety of transfer activities with do-a-dot printable, using tools such as sugar tongs, toast tong,  or even chopsticks for a very advanced transfer activity. Or you could have a totally different type of do-a-dot activity. See ideas below. Just choose what is best for your child’s skill level and interests.

You could add a tracing activity to the printable. If you laminate your printable, you can use an erasable crayon like the Melissa & Doug Learning Mat Crayons or Crayola Erasable Crayons. If your page isn’t laminated, you could add a pencil or colored pencil. I often do that. For a 2-year-old or other young preschooler who’s not ready to write letters, you can just leave off the crayon or pencil.

Fire Truck Movable Alphabet Word Building, Handwriting Practice, and Button Transfer Work.

This do-a-dot printable can be used in a variety of ways, depending on the age and ability of the child. A younger child could just use do-a-dot markers or some sort of transfer on the do-a-dot page and focus on the /f/ sound, while an older child could trace the letters, study the phonogram “i_e”, and build the word with the Montessori movable alphabet. We focused on cursive letter “f” so that Zoey can learn both manuscript and cursive.

For a child who’s ready for (or already using) the movable alphabet, you could have the child build the word first. My 4½-year-old granddaughter, Zoey, likes to use the movable alphabet to build the word and analyze it with me. (We use the small movable alphabet. I have the movable alphabet from Alison’s Montessori, which I love. You can also get a movable alphabet from Amazon or make your own.)

Before building the words “fire truck,” we reviewed silent-e and ck at the end of a word and Zoey traced the words with red and blue colored pencils. After that, Zoey used the movable alphabet to build the  words “fire truck.”

Then Zoey decided to color in the dots using the red and blue colored pencils. She said the red was fire, and the blue was water to put out the fire!

After that, Zoey used the quick sticks to transfer the buttons to the page. A tool isn’t necessary, but it gives extra fine-motor practice.

If you want to know how to introduce the letter sound for f, check out my post on how to teach letter sounds using Montessori principles.

Note: In case you’re wondering, Zoey’s maxi dress is from Gymboree.

More Fire Safety Resources and Activities

• Montessori-Inspired Fire Safety Unit with Free Printables and Activities
• Free Fire Safety Printables and Montessori-Inspired Fire Safety Activities
• Free Fire Safety Songs and Educational Videos
• The Best Fire Safety Books for Kids
• How to Teach Fire Safety in a Non-Scary Way
• Free Firefighter Cutting Strips (Montessori-Inspired Instant Download)

All My Community Helper Activities and Resources

• Talking with Children about 9/11 – Ideas and Activities
• Free Police Printables and Montessori-Inspired Police Activities
• Community Helpers Activity Trays and Sensory Tubs
• Free Ambulance Printables and Montessori-Inspired Ambulance Activities
• Montessori-Friendly Community Helper Resources
• Montessori-Inspired Activities with Community Helper Figures and Free Printables
• “Look for the Helpers” Mister Rogers Word Art Freebie
• Free 9-1-1 Songs for Kids {Non-Scary Emergency Preparedness
• Free Emergency Preparedness Songs for Kids {Character Education Resources}
• Free Water Safety Songs for Kids
• Free Fire Safety Printables and Montessori-Inspired Fire Safety Activities
• Montessori-Inspired Fire Safety Unit with Free Printables and Activities
• Free Fire Safety Songs and Educational Videos
• The Best Fire Safety Books for Kids
• Free Fire Truck Do-a-Dot Printable (Montessori-Inspired Instant Download)
• How to Teach Children Fire Safety in a Non-Scary Way
• Free Firefighter Cutting Strips (Montessori-Inspired Instant Download)
• Community Helpers Pinterest Board

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Free Do-a-Dot Printables and Ideas for Using Them

I love the versatility of do-a-dot printables! If you’re doing a month-long theme, you could easily change out the type of do-a-dot activity weekly to add interest. Here are four ideas of hands-on activities for any of our do-a-dot printables from my frog do-a-dot printable post (see post for details and materials used).

Just click on an image to go to the post with the related free printable!

Note: I’ve arranged the following gallery in alphabetical order, although some posts have two do-a-dot printables (and two different letters). Also, I don’t introduce letters in alphabetical order. You can find out the order in which I introduce letter sounds here. I deviate from that order for our unit studies, though, and focus on a letter that’s simply related to our unit. That’s in addition to our other letter work.

You can see all our free do-a-dot printables with the latest at the top here.

For complete themed alphabet do-a-dot packs, see our Animal Alphabet Do-a-Dot Pack, Spanish Animal Alphabet Do-a-Dot Pack, and Healthy Food Alphabet Do-a-Dot Pack available for purchase in the Living Montessori Now shop.

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