--- title: 7 Community Helpers Crafts for Preschoolers (Easy Ideas) description: 7 community helper crafts for preschoolers, each with a picture and simple steps. 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Easy ideas for ages 3 to 5 using paper, paint, and glue. [Kindergarten Prep Team](https://kindergarten-prep.com/blog/author/kindergarten-prep-team) Oct 11, 2026 --- Community Helper Week comes with a fire station visit. Here are seven community helpers preschool crafts, each with a picture, the supplies, and the steps, from a paper bag Dalmatian puppet to a handprint X-ray with cotton swab bones. A three-year-old gives a white handprint for the X-ray and watches the bones go on. A five-year-old builds the fire truck from a rectangle, a square, and two circles, and finds 9-1-1 on the paper phone. Great crafts for Fire Safety Week in October and Veterans Day in November. ## Start here: three community helpers crafts that always work [![Handprint x-ray, an easy community helpers craft for preschoolers ages 3 to 5](https://kindergarten-prep.com/hs-fs/hubfs/crafts/C295-4.webp?width=900&height=675&name=C295-4.webp)**Handprint x-ray***One handprint and cotton swabs for bones*](https://kindergarten-prep.com/blog/community-helpers-crafts-for-preschoolers#c295)[![Paper bag dalmatian puppet, an easy community helpers craft for preschoolers ages 3 to 5](https://kindergarten-prep.com/hs-fs/hubfs/crafts/C120-1.webp?width=900&height=675&name=C120-1.webp)**Paper bag dalmatian puppet***A paper bag, black spots, a puppet*](https://kindergarten-prep.com/blog/community-helpers-crafts-for-preschoolers#c120)[![Thank you card for a veteran, an easy community helpers craft for preschoolers ages 3 to 5](https://kindergarten-prep.com/hs-fs/hubfs/crafts/C287-2.webp?width=900&height=675&name=C287-2.webp)**Thank you card for a veteran***Stars and prints on a card, done*](https://kindergarten-prep.com/blog/community-helpers-crafts-for-preschoolers#c287) All 7 Easy for 3 year olds No paint ## 7 community helpers crafts for preschoolers, with pictures [![Paper bag dalmatian puppet, an easy community helpers craft for preschoolers ages 3 to 5](https://kindergarten-prep.com/hs-fs/hubfs/crafts/C120-1.webp?width=900&height=675&name=C120-1.webp)](https://kindergarten-prep.com/hubfs/crafts/C120-1.webp) ### 1. Paper bag dalmatian puppet The child turns a white paper bag into a fire station dog with floppy ears, a nose, a red collar and black paper spots. Puppet **You need:** 1 white paper lunch bag, black paper, red paper, 2 googly eyes, black marker, glue How to make it 1. Lay the bag flat with the folded bottom flap facing up as the dog's face. 2. You cut 2 floppy black ears, a nose and small black spots. 3. Glue the 2 googly eyes on the flap and the nose below them. Draw a smiling mouth under the flap edge. 4. Glue the ears hanging down from the sides of the flap. Cut a red strip and glue it across the bag below the flap as a collar. 5. Your child glues the black spots all over the bag. [![School bus craft, an easy community helpers craft for preschoolers ages 3 to 5](https://kindergarten-prep.com/hs-fs/hubfs/crafts/C061-2.webp?width=900&height=675&name=C061-2.webp)](https://kindergarten-prep.com/hubfs/crafts/C061-2.webp) ### 2. School bus craft The child paints a milk carton, box or row of craft sticks yellow and adds black wheels and paper windows. Paint and glue **You need:** jumbo craft sticks, yellow paint, 2 black paper circles, white paper squares, 1 sheet of light blue paper, glue How to make it 1. Your child paints the craft sticks yellow. Let them dry. 2. Lay the blue paper sideways. Glue the sticks one above the other, touching, to make a long yellow rectangle. 3. Glue white squares in a row across the upper part as windows. 4. Glue the 2 black circles at the bottom edge as wheels, one at each end. [![Shape fire truck, an easy community helpers craft for preschoolers ages 3 to 5](https://kindergarten-prep.com/hs-fs/hubfs/crafts/C231-2.webp?width=900&height=675&name=C231-2.webp)](https://kindergarten-prep.com/hubfs/crafts/C231-2.webp) ### 3. Shape fire truck The child builds a fire truck from a red rectangle, square cab, circle wheels and a paper ladder. Cut and glue **You need:** 1 sheet of light blue paper, red paper, white paper, black paper, yellow paper, black marker, glue How to make it 1. You cut a large red rectangle, a red square, a small white square, 2 black circles and a yellow strip. 2. Your child glues the red rectangle across the middle of the blue sheet as the truck body. 3. Glue the red square at one end as the cab, with the white square as a window. 4. Glue the 2 black circles along the bottom edge as wheels. 5. Glue the yellow strip along the top as a ladder and draw short rungs across it. [![Thank you card for a veteran, an easy community helpers craft for preschoolers ages 3 to 5](https://kindergarten-prep.com/hs-fs/hubfs/crafts/C287-2.webp?width=900&height=675&name=C287-2.webp)](https://kindergarten-prep.com/hubfs/crafts/C287-2.webp) ### 4. Thank you card for a veteran The child decorates a card with red, white and blue prints or stars to give to a veteran. Process art **You need:** 1 folded white cardstock card, red paint, blue star stickers How to make it 1. Fold the cardstock in half and lay it closed with the front facing up. 2. Your child paints one large red heart in the middle of the front. Let it dry. 3. Your child sticks blue stars around the heart. 4. Inside, write a thank-you in your child's own words. [![Handprint x-ray, an easy community helpers craft for preschoolers ages 3 to 5](https://kindergarten-prep.com/hs-fs/hubfs/crafts/C295-4.webp?width=900&height=675&name=C295-4.webp)](https://kindergarten-prep.com/hubfs/crafts/C295-4.webp) ### 5. Handprint x-ray The child makes a white handprint on black paper and glues or paints cotton swab bones along the fingers. Handprint **You need:** 1 sheet of black construction paper, white paint, 5 cotton swabs, white glue How to make it 1. Paint your child's palm and fingers white with a brush. 2. Press the hand in the middle of the black paper, fingers spread. Let it dry. 3. Glue one cotton swab along each finger and the thumb, from the tip down to the palm. [![911 phone craft, an easy community helpers craft for preschoolers ages 3 to 5](https://kindergarten-prep.com/hs-fs/hubfs/crafts/C314-2.webp?width=900&height=675&name=C314-2.webp)](https://kindergarten-prep.com/hubfs/crafts/C314-2.webp) ### 6. 911 phone craft The child glues number buttons onto a paper phone and practises finding 9-1-1. Cut and glue **You need:** grey construction paper, white paper squares, 1 sheet of white paper, black marker, red crayon, glue How to make it 1. You cut a phone from grey paper: a rectangle body with a rounded handset across the top. Glue it on the white sheet. 2. Write the numbers 1 to 9 on 9 squares, then star, 0 and hash on 3 more. 3. Your child glues the squares on the body in 4 rows of 3. 4. Your child draws a red crayon circle around the 9 and around the 1. 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Community helper paper bag puppets The child turns paper bags into a firefighter, doctor, police officer or mail carrier with paper hats and uniforms. Puppet **You need:** 2 brown paper lunch bags, red, blue, yellow and silver paper, 4 googly eyes, black marker, glue How to make it 1. Lay both bags flat with the folded bottom flaps as faces. 2. Your child glues 2 googly eyes on each face and you draw a smile. 3. You cut a red firefighter helmet, a yellow badge, a blue police cap and a silver star. Your child glues the helmet and badge on the first bag, and the cap and star on the second. 4. Cut a red collar and a blue collar. Glue one below each face. Nothing matches that filter. Clear it and try again. ## Community helper crafts with a 3 year old Paper lunch bags, a red sheet of paper and a black marker cover most of this list. Cut the shapes for the fire truck and the puppet hats the night before and set them out in a muffin tin. A three year old can stick stars, print a hand and glue shapes where you point. Gluing the cotton swab bones along the finger lines and the puppet faces is for a five year old; the child decides, you hold the glue. The 911 phone is the one to make slowly. Say the numbers, press them in order on the paper phone, and tell the child when to call and when not to. Then put it by the real phone. The puppets are for playing fire station after. The thank you card goes in an envelope to a veteran you know, and the x-ray goes up on the wall for the doctor week. ## What you need for community helpers crafts Most of these use the same handful of supplies: glue, black marker, black paper, red paper, googly eye, white paper square, light blue paper, white paper. Everything else is named on the craft it belongs to. [Free · 30 questions · about 4 minutes **Before you go: see where your child is for kindergarten** A report with every area at a glance, what to focus on first, and things to do at home. 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