What Will You Need?

You will need coloured paint - any different colours, ideally 3-4. large sheets of paper and cardboard tubes.

Implementation

Painting Fireworks is a super easy and fun activity during this time of the year. 

Use any old cardboard and create different-length ‘firework’ fans for printing with paint. The print pattern created by the cardboard roll fans mimics that of fireworks brilliantly and children can create as many different size and coloured fireworks as they like. Add a small amount of glitter to the wet paint to finish off the ‘fireworks’ effect!

Please note: Do not place the cardboard tubes into the paint until you are ready to use them because after a while the cardboard strips become soft and will break off after they have been in the wet paint for some time.

Some Ideas:

• When printing the fireworks onto the paper, we used a ‘bounce and twist’ motion as we transferred the paint and fireworks pattern onto the paper.
• Start printing with the largest fireworks cardboard fan first and print over the top with the next size down to the smallest.
• Create a fireworks using the smallest cardboard fan first overlapping the paint with the next biggest until the largest.
• Create single coloured fireworks with no overlapping with several colours.
• Talk about the different sizes, which one is the largest fireworks and which one is the smallest?

Impact

Encourages C&L, A&E, M, UW, PSED