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Community Helpers for Preschool

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Big picture pages about the people who help us: firefighters, police officers, doctors, teachers, mail carriers and farmers.

Download the community helpers worksheets

Meet the helpers

A chart of six community helpers to talk about and color.

Helpers and their tools

Match each helper to the thing they use, with lines or with scissors and glue.

Imagine and say thank you

Draw yourself as a helper and make a thank you card for a helper you know.

Print at 100% (actual size) for the cleanest tracing lines.

About these community helpers worksheets

Community helpers are the people who keep a town safe, healthy and running. Preschoolers already know many of them from the street, the doctor's office and their own classroom. These pages help children name each helper, match them to the things they use and know who to go to for help.

The chart introduces six helpers. Children then match helpers to their tools, with a draw-a-line page and a cut and paste twin, and answer simple questions like Who puts out fires? The last two pages are for imagining and thanking: draw yourself as a helper, and make a thank you card for a real one.

Standards

  • ELOF P-SE 11Child has sense of belonging to family, community, and other groups.
  • ELOF P-LC 6Child understands and uses a wide variety of words for a variety of purposes.
  • ELOF P-LC 7Child shows understanding of word categories and relationships among words.
  • ELOF P-ATL 11Child shows interest in and curiosity about the world around them.
  • ELOF P-ATL 13Child uses imagination in play and interactions with others.
  • ELOF P-SE 7Child expresses care and concern toward others.

How to use them

  1. Talk about the helpers your child has met. Who did you see at the doctor's office? Who brings our mail?
  2. Read each question on Who Can Help? aloud and let your child circle the helper.
  3. Pair the cut and paste page with the match page. Some children like to cut, others like to draw lines.
  4. Act it out. A pot becomes a firefighter's helmet and a book bag becomes a mail bag.
  5. Send the thank you card to a real helper: a crossing guard, a nurse or the school cook.

Teaching tips

  • Use plain words: firefighter, police officer, mail carrier. They work for everyone.
  • Teach that police officers and firefighters are safe grown-ups to ask for help.
  • Mix in the helpers in your own child's world, like the bus driver or the librarian.
  • If a helper visit is scary for a child, look at the pictures together first so the uniform is familiar.

Questions teachers and parents ask

Which community helpers should preschoolers know?

Start with the helpers children meet most: firefighters, police officers, doctors and nurses, teachers, mail carriers and farmers. Add the bus driver, librarian and others from your own community.

How do I teach community helpers in preschool?

Use pictures, pretend play and real visits. Talk about what each helper does and the tools they use, then let children act out the jobs.

Are there answer keys?

Yes. The match, cut and paste and Who Can Help? pages have an answer key on page 2.