Long, long ago, people saw fire when lightning ⚡ hit trees 🌳 or rocks! It was very bright and warm. They learned to keep the fire burning by adding sticks and wood. Fire helped them stay warm, cook food 🍖, and scare away scary animals 🐺 at night!
Parents, you can act out how early humans might have been scared at first but then happy to have fire!
Fire was discovered by early humans over a million years ago! 🔥 They likely saw natural fires from lightning ⚡ or volcanoes 🌋 and noticed how useful fire was. Later, they learned to create fire by rubbing sticks together or striking rocks (like flint).
Fire changed everything! It let humans cook food (making it safer to eat), stay warm in cold places ❄️, and even make tools stronger by heating them!
Fire discovery was a huge leap for early humans! Evidence suggests Homo erectus used fire ~1.5 million years ago. Natural fires (lightning/volcanoes) introduced fire, but humans later mastered creating it—possibly via:
Controlled fire enabled: