Fireman Birthday Party Theme

Decorations
Red and white streamers and red, white, yellow and black balloons. Fire hydrants, ladders, toy fire trucks and Dalmatians.

Red or white tablecloth with coordinating plates and cups. If you opt for plain cups set stickers of Dalmatians and
fire trucks at each place and let kids decorate the cups with them.

Make a helium balloon bouquet for the center of the table and weight it down with a fire truck or fire hydrant.

Fun Ideas
Check with your local fire department and ask if they give tours of the fire station. Let the children explore the fire
station and sit in the fire truck. This is a great photo opportunity to get a picture of each child. Take a picture of
all the kids in front of the station with the firemen.

Many fire stations have free fireman helmets, stickers, coloring pages etc. that they will provide for your party.
Don’t forget to bring along some sweet treats for the firemen while you are there!

Games
Firefighter Relay Games

Divide birthday party guests into 2 teams. Use 4 buckets - place two at the starting line and two 30 or more feet
away.　 Fill the farthest buckets with water. Players take a sponge and run to the far bucket, dip the sponge in the
water and then run back to the starting line bucket and squeeze the water into the empty bucket. The first team to
fill their bucket wins. (Use larger buckets to hold the water first since a lot of the water will be lost as they race
back to fill their bucket.) Variation: Race backwards for a crazy birthday party game twist!

Fireman Dress Up Relay
Place two sets of almost identical items in two baskets. Find things that firemen would use - rain boots, rain coats, fireman hat, length of garden hose rolled up … etc. Then break the guests into two teams and have them line up
behind each other. The first person in line from each team must run to the baskets, put on the clothes and items,
run back to the start … then run back to the basket, take the items off and run back to the start to tag the next
person in line. The team who finishes first wins a prize.

Firefighter Training
Set up an obstacle course in the back yard with tires, obstacles, tunnels, planks etc. Place a kitten or Dalmatian
at the end of the relay race and tell them they must brave the course, rescue the animal and then make it back
to the start. Split up into two teams and run the course relay style or let them run through it individually and keep
track of their time with a stopwatch. Once they’ve mastered the course make them run through it again holding a
length of garden hose or backwards.

Activities
Fire Truck Piñata

Fill a fireman theme piñata with red candy - individually wrapped sour balls, red hots, hard candies etc. Before
the piñata let the guests decorate red sacks that they can use as a goody bag and also to hold their piñata candy.

Fire truck Picture Frame Craft
Paint and decorate a photo frame with red paint and fireman theme cut outs or foam stick-ons. Place the picture
from the fire station inside.

Food
Grill or provide hotdogs, chips, dips, and a fruit tray.

Serve Big Red or cherry Kool-Aid.

With the cake serve chocolate chip ice cream (looks like a Dalmatian!)

Serve chips and snacks in fireman helmets.

Dalmatian spotted cupcakes.

Goody Bags
Red paper bag from the piñata

Red bags tied with a red helium balloon

Fireman’s helmet filled with goodies.