Due to the Covid-19 Pandemic most likely everyone around the world will be celebrating bonfire night at home in 2020. You can still make bonfire night cool and fun for your kids, down below are five fun and creative things to do.
PAPER ROCKETS
What You Need:
- Paper tubes
- Pipe cleaners
- Pieces of card
- Pva glue
- Glitter, paint, stickers and accessories to decorate your rockets with
Instructions:
- Get your kids to pick out colorful pipe cleaners and help them pva glue stick them at one end of the tube.
- Take the piece of card and cut out a circle and cut into the centre without going all the way through.
- Fold and stick the circle into a cone shape and stick it with the pva glue at the other end of the tube.
- The rocket is now ready to let the kids get creative and decorate it with what they want.
HANDPRINT BONFIRE
What You Need:
- Orange, red, yellow and brown paint
- Black Card /paper
Instructions:
- Use the paint to cover the one hand using one colour at a time.
- Place their hands onto the black paper/card and create a bonfire type design.
- Use your brown paint and paint logs at the bottom of the fire design.
PAINT SPLATTERED FIREWORKS
What You Need:
- Variety of paint colours
- Paint brushes
- Black cards
- Protective Covers
Instructions:
- Place your protective covers over the floor and surrounding areas.
- Place your black cards on top of the protective covers on the floor.
- Get the kids with their paintbrushes and get them to flick different colours of the paint onto the cards to design their own fireworks.
FIREWORKS IN A JAR
What You Need:
- Glass jar
- Food colouring (variety of colours)
- Vegetable oil
- Fork
- Small bowl
- Water
Instructions:
- Fill your glass jar three-quarters full with warm water.
- In the small bowl add three to four tablespoons of oil.
- Add your variety of food colourings into the small bowl, using your fork to mix the oil and food colouring together until small beads of colour form.
- Slowly pour your oil mixture into the glass jar of warm water.
- Get the kids to watch what happens next as the liquids combine the food colours will slowly sink out of the oil and into the water. Once this happens it will expand and begin to mix with other colours, creating cascading fireworks effects.
FIREWORK POP UP TOY
What You Need:
- Ruler
- Wooden spoon
- Black card/paper
- Ribbons
- Stapler/sticky tape
- Scissors
- Star stickers, glitter or paint (optional)
Instructions:
- On your black card/paper cut out a circle up to 45cm across.
- From the middle of the circle start to gently fold the circle in half and half again, making sure you don’t press down the folds permanently.
- Cut from the outside of the circle in a straight line to the midpoint. You can now roll the paper into a cone and staple/sticky tape it into place to stop it uncurling.
- Fit your wooden spoon into the cone, to do this snip off a tiny bit of the cones point so it is just large enough to fit the spoons handle.
- To make all the colourful ‘fireworks’ that will pop out of the cone simply cut lengths of ribbons approx 50cm long and tie them all together onto the handle of the wooden spoon.
- Insert the spoon into the cone and tuck and hid the ribbons inside.
- Place your star stickers and glitter inside and if your kids want to they can paint the outside of the cone.
