Community Helpers Printables

Firefighters, nurses, farmers and teachers are the people these printables help children get to know, and they work in three ways: learning the names, coloring the work and putting it into practice. For a first look at many jobs at once, the community helpers coloring pages give twenty helpers a scene each, from the mail carrier and the dentist to the pilot and the custodian, then ask kids to draw lines from helpers to their tools and to draw the job they would like to have. The community helpers flashcards go wider, with 60 jobs printed in English and in Chinese with pinyin. Each job gets three cards that step up from the name to the workplace to the tools, and bingo, a memory game and role-play cards reuse the same helpers. When one helper has caught a child's interest, six of them have a 30-page book of their own. The firefighter coloring pages follow a crew through a day at the station, with the trucks and a Dalmatian. The police officer coloring pages stay with kind moments, like handing back a lost teddy bear or sharing an umbrella, and add a patrol car, a motorcycle, a horse and a police dog. In the hospital coloring pages, doctors, nurses and an ambulance lead to a few closing pages about feelings, such as I Am Brave. The chef coloring pages make pizza, tacos, sushi and dumplings. The farmer coloring pages go from sowing seeds to keeping bees, in fine lines that suit colored pencils better than chunky crayons. The teacher coloring pages mix classroom scenes with thank-you designs that leave space for a message, so a finished page can go back to school as a gift. Two books turn the helpers into a task. The fire safety coloring pages print a short rule under every picture, on stop, drop and roll, smoke alarms, calling 911 from outside and an escape plan the child draws on a blank grid, for a grown-up to read through with a preschool or early elementary child. For ages 7 to 10, the community helpers activities book seats a child at the desk of a pretend city support team, working through 40 missions with codes, maps, routes and clocks. It is a puzzle game, and the book itself says it is not emergency training.