Printable Community Helpers Crafts That Are Sure to Delight Your Kids

Are you ready to explore the community with your kiddos? I know that your kids will love these fun community helpers crafts. These printable fine motor craft activities will help you introduce the roles of community helpers like a mail carrier, a police officer, a firefighter, and a paramedic through community helper transportation vehicle crafts.

The crafts are a great way to discuss community helpers, but the best part is they were designed to help little kids practice fine motor skills like cutting, tracing, and hole punching.

So, get your scissors, glue sticks, and hole punches ready to go and get started with these community helpers crafts today.

Printable Community Helpers Crafts for Kids

Now, let’s take a look at the printable fine motor crafts in my community helper set. Like my other printable fine motor crafts, these will give your preschool and kindergarten kiddos lots of opportunities to work on fine motor skills.

These cut and paste activities are a motivating way to work on cutting practice, there are dotted lines on each of the crafts for pre-writing and tracing practice, and each craft includes small circles for hole punching…..a favorite activity of most kids!

Each craft has two printing options. There is a one-page no-prep option that you print on white paper. Kids can color the shapes, cut them out, and paste them together. The other option is pictured in the blog post. You print the parts on different colors of paper and you kids can cut them out and paste them together.

Fire Truck Craft

Making these cute firetrucks is one of my favorite activities from the community helpers set. This is a perfect activity to do after a field trip to the fire station. When they make this cute and easy fire truck craft for preschoolers, your kids will be able to picture themselves in the driver’s seat, rushing to save the day and extinguish pretend flames.

This craft will fuel their imagination encouraging pretend play. It will help them learn about fire trucks, plus it’s the perfect activity to encourage your little learners to work on scissor skills and build hand strength while they crate.

Your kids can get cutting practice as they cut out the simple shapes on the dark, bold lines. Take a better look at the picture above. Do you see the dotted lines on the body of the firetruck? Your kids can build control in their fingers as they trace those dotted lines on the fire truck. Also, take a look at the small circles on the printable firetruck design. Kids can use a hole punch to punch out each of the circles

If you haven’t tried them out, hole punching activities are EXTREMELY motivating and a great way to build hand strength. To expand on this activity, kids can create a fire station background on a large piece of construction paper. They can attach their craft to the piece of paper.

Simple Ambulance Craft

Calling all little paramedics! It’s time to craft an ambulance. Cut, trace, and punch your way to a fantastic creation. This is a perfect craft to use during your community helper theme unit in your preschool classroom. Your kids will love this ambulance that’s ready to race to the rescue!

Police Car Craft Activity

Your kids will be ready to join the force after they create their own police car masterpieces. They can cut and paste, trace, and hole punch personalized squad cars that are ready to drive up to the police station. Warning: you may hear a few sirens as your kids work on this community helpers craft!

Post Office Truck Craft Project

The final community helpers craft in the set is a post office truck. Your kids can design and construct their very own mail truck using the simple printable template.

Now that I shared all the fun crafts, you might have some questions about teaching kids about community helpers.

Why teach preschoolers about community helpers?

Before we get to the craft ideas, let’s take a quick look at why we teach preschoolers about community helpers. We teach preschoolers about community helpers because it helps them understand the world around them and learn about the different roles of all the people who help make our community a better place.

By learning about different community helpers, young kids start to recognize the hard work and important roles these helpers play in our daily lives and will learn to respect and appreciate these important peple.

How do you explain community helpers to preschoolers?

In simple words, you can tell your kids that a community helpers are different people who have special jobs that helps make our community a better place. They help to keep us safe and happy.

What are examples of community helpers?

There are a variety of people who are part of the world of community helpers. First responders like police officers, firefighters, and paramedics play a role in keeping us safe. Teachers, administrators, librarians, cafeteria workers, and bus drivers help us learn and grow. Garbage truck drivers, city bus drivers, postal workers, and grocery store workers also play important roles in the community. What additional helpers do you talk about with your kids during your community helpers theme?

Buy the Printable Community Helpers Crafts Today

I hope that you found these community helpers crafts to be as cute as I do. The crafts are a great addition to your social studies community helpers unit AND will give you a motivating & fun way to get your kids to practice and build fine motor skills.

Are you ready to get started on some fun community helper activities today? You can purchase the printable crafts set in the store. Click on the image below to learn more. I know you and your young children will have so much fun making the easy craft activities.

Purchase The Community Helpers Craft Printables on TPT

Do you prefer to shop at Teachers Pay Teachers? You can also purchase the Community Helpers Fine Motor Crafts Set in my TPT Store.

More Craft Ideas for Your Kids

Do you need more great ideas for your kids? Check out these preschool crafts from Early Learning Ideas for lots of ideas.