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How to Help Children Make a Fireworks Celebration on Paper

This year the kids won't have to wait until dark for the fireworks to start. At your Fourth of July celebration, help your children make a fireworks celebration on paper with a few simple supplies and some flowers from the yard.

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    Difficulty:
    Moderately Easy

    Instructions

    Things You'll Need

    • Crayola Art Smocks
    • Aluminum Foil
    • Flowers
    • Washable Acrylic Paints
      • 1

        Assemble the materials you'll need: a painting smock, black kraft paper, aluminum foil, washable acrylic paints, flowers and/or sponge dish scrubbers.

      • 2

        Let the kids choose the paint colors they want to use, and make each child his or her own "palette" on a piece of doubled aluminum foil. Gold, silver, red, blue and green metallic show up well on black paper.

      • 3

        Give each child a flower or a dish scrubber for each color and show them how to load it with paint.

      • 4

        Show the kids how to dab their black paper with the flower to make fireworks bursts. One quick dab on the paper will do it; no need to drag the flower or press too hard against the paper - you don't want to smear your fireworks.

      • 5

        Fill the black "sky" with fireworks and then set the paper aside to dry.

      • 6

        Wash up, sit back and marvel at the kids' artistic abilities. Hang the pictures up for everyone at your Fourth of July celebration to see.

    Tips & Warnings

    • Do this activity outside if possible or maybe in the garage to avoid the inevitable spilled paint on the floor. Tie on painting smocks before getting started to keep clothes paint-free.

    • Use other colors of construction paper to cut squares and rectangles. Have the kids paste these shapes along the bottom of the black paper to make a city skyline.

    • Choose flowers with lots of petals, like dandelions, mums, allium and yellow tickseed. These make the most realistic fireworks bursts.

    • Don't use anything but washable, nontoxic paints when working with kids.

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