- Demonstrate to your Leader how to safely light a match and a candle and how to blow it out safely.
- Make a candle from beeswax
- Draw a map of your house and show all the exits that could be used in case there was a fire. Mark in the smoke alarms and ask your parents whether the batteries have been changed recently. Know the date on which they should be changed.
- Practise Stop, Drop and Roll
- Make a poster showing different places in a house where a fire could start.
- Know how to treat a burn
- Practise crawling under smoke and touching a door to see if it is hot before opening it.
- Know the emergency number to call if you see a fire.
- Demonstrate how to grade a woodpile.
- Cook marshmallows over candles.
- Cook on an open fire with adult help.
- Visit a fire station.
- Find out about the Olympic Flame.
- Find out how fires were lit before we had matches and when matches were invented.
- Investigate fire ants and fireflies.
- Made and use a portable instruments at a campfire
Need more of a challenge?
- Know how to extinguish different types of fires (eg clothing, pan of fat on fire, fire caused by electricity).
- Know how to light a campfire
- Know how to avoid, and treat, sunburn
- Find out about fire bans in Victoria
- Show how to use a fire extinguisher.
- Know the regulations of lighting of fires in the open.
