Bonfire Night Crafts

Celebrate Bonfire Night this year with some fun “firework” and bonfire crafts for your kids. Often children enjoy the idea of fireworks more than the actual fireworks themselves, which are a bit loud and scary! But we are sure they will enjoy sitting down to these firework activities.

And if the worst comes to the worst and you can’t get outside to enjoy a firework display, you can make some of your own with these crafty ideas!

 Bonfire Collage

Celebrate Bonfire Night with this wonderful collage bonfire collage.  It also makes a good campfire craft for summer.

You will need:

Large sheet of gold card
Glue stick
Yellow, red and orange tissue or crepe paper
Brown paper or card
Twigs
Sticky tape

Instructions:

Cut a bonfire shape from card.

Cut flames from the tissue paper and glue them to the card. Try not to glue them flat but bend them and only stick bits down to add texture and make the flames look more real.

From brown paper cut some rectangular “log” shapes and glue these to the bottom of the fire. Finish off by taping on some real twigs to bring the collage to life and add even more texture.

 Bonfire Painting

Here is a clever technique which will allow children to create a really effective bonfire painting for Bonfire Night or a campfire for summer

You will need:

Paper
Paint in yellow, red and orange
Tissues

Instructions:

Squirt some yellow paint at the bottom middle of the paper.

Scrunch up a tissue. Dip into the paint and use it to spread the paint outwards.

Repeat with orange and then red. Each time add a bit less paint so that it will not spread as far.

You will end up with a surprisingly effective bonfire painting for Bonfire Night!