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Preschool Community Helpers Craft Activities



Celebrating community helpers is so much fun with these printable craft hats for preschoolers and kindergartners. Many teachers do a community helpers theme at least once a year to discuss police officers, construction workers, teachers, garbage collectors, firefighters, and more. Preschool and kindergarten kiddos always love learning about the jobs that help care for the city. Use these exciting community helper week printable hat crafts to learn fun facts in a great way.

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Why it is Important to Teach about Community Helpers to Preschoolers?

It’s important to teach about community helpers in preschool because it helps children understand the roles and responsibilities of people in their community. This knowledge can foster a sense of belonging and appreciation for the diverse range of jobs that contribute to the functioning of a community. Additionally, learning about community helpers can help children develop important social skills, such as understanding and respecting different roles and perspectives. Additionally, it help children to understand the importance of different service people in their community and they can understand that they are important and they can help the society. It also helps to develop the sense of responsibility and respect for their work.

Keep reading to see how simple the hat crafts are to add to your elementary or preschool theme. Each comes with an EASY way to set up the student names, making your planning and prepping easier. Check it out and add them to your community helper lessons this year.

Printable Chef Hat Craft

As you learn about chefs and bakers, let your kindergarten or preschool students create their own adorable chef hats. Let them wear them in dramatic play or parade around the school in them. These simple hats are easy to print out, customize, and piece together. There are just a few easy steps to follow!

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Editable Construction Worker Hat Craft

Construction workers are an important part of our community. They help build buildings, fix sidewalks and roads, and maintain the city. Without them, out town would be a mess. Let kids make their own hard hats and pretend to be construction workers in the classroom and at home. This construction worker printable hat craft would be perfect to laminate and then place in dramatic play centers to use over and over. They can easily be customized with children’s names as well, making them perfect for name recognition.

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Printable and Editable Firefighter Hat Craft

The firefighter is by far one of the kids’ favorite community helpers. Their gear and job are so fascinating. Invite kids to imagine their own fire station with these super cool firefighter hats. The kids will love adding their names to the hats and coloring them in. They will also enjoy taking them home at the end of the community helpers unit. This firefighter printable hat craft would be perfect to laminate and then place in dramatic play centers to use over and over.

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Printable Mailman Hat Craft

The mail carrier in the town helps us all stay in contact with one another. Without postal workers, we wouldn’t receive packages or letters from loved ones. Invite your students to customize their own mail carrier hats using these editable templates and crafts. Just print the kids’ names on each hat and let them color the words and hat. Kids will love pretending to deliver the mail while wearing their new hat! This mailman printable hat craft would be perfect to laminate and then place in dramatic play centers to use over and over.

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Editable Nurse Hat Craft

Young children will enjoy making and wearing their own nurse hats. Just print them onto white paper and let the kids decorate them however they want. These are perfect for your community helper theme in the classroom. Add them to your literacy activities or put the finished products in the dramatic play center. These will easily become their favorite community helper to learn about. This nurse printable hat craft would be perfect to laminate and then place in dramatic play centers to use over and over.

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Editable Police Officer Hat Craft

These dramatic play crafts are a great way to get kids excited about police officers and all the ways they help out the community. During community helpers week, let each student make their own police officer hat with their name on them. They are super adorable name crafts as well. The kids will love taking their hats home with them to show off. This police printable hat craft would be perfect to laminate and then place in dramatic play centers to use over and over.

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Each of these community helper crafts comes with an auto-fill PDF that will populate each child’s name. Just type your class roster into the PDF, and the hats will make themselves. How easy is that? If you teach in a preschool classroom or an elementary school, this is the easiest way to set up your community helper unit. Build student confidence as they learn name recognition and letter order. Each is perfect for fine motor skills and is tons of fun.

There are so many different jobs to learn bout in our own neighborhoods. This list of community helpers is just the start. Be sure to teach your students about other community helpers like teachers, judges, veterinarians, dentists, doctors, bakers, cleaners, servers, and more. If you are looking for some fun community helper books, check out these fun titles:

  • Whose Hands are These by Miranda Paul – A fun guessing game book for students to learn about important skills.
  • Police Officers in my Community by Gina Bellisario – A fun way to learn about police officers and staying safe where we live.
  • Let’s Meet a Dentist by Bridget Heos – See how fun it is to visit the dentist and keep our teeth clean.
  • These come in many versions to teach kids about all kinds of community helpers.

Kids will love learning about important community helpers using these editable hats and read-aloud stories. Add some fun community helper activities to your daily routines and you have fun activities for weeks on end. Little learners will enjoy their circle time and the community helper lesson plans you put together. Have fun learning together!

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