Bonfire Night

[Tatia]

What sort of activities do you do for Bonfire Night?

[SimplyLucy]

Tar Barrel people!

Yes, you're all probably say "WHAT???"

Well I live in this mad town.......

http://www.otterytarbarrels.co.uk/

November the 5th is the best day of the year here.

Oh back to the activities, we make people out of card and sick clothes made out of fabric scraps on them then give them a tar barrel made of a piece of kitchen roll tube and make flames using tissue paper.

[Angela234]

I do a bonfire picture cut stripes of tissue paper about 6in long orange,red,yellow and stick onto paper as flames some all stuck down and some only half stick on so leaving top part hanging 3D effect can be very effective.

On black card put on glue and sprinkle with glitter to look like fireworks in the night sky.

Cut kitchen roll holder in half decorate to look like firework


Angela

[SimplyLucy]

Firework pictures are great too.

You need black card and PVA glue and glitter. Just drizzle the glue on the card and sprinkle the glitter on. Fabulous.

I saw some fab rocket sausages in a magazine the other day. Cooked sausges cut in half and stuck length ways onto a cocktail stick with a triangle of pepper push on the top. They looked really cute.

[angeldelight]

There are some games here

http://www.berr.gov.uk/fireworks/games.htm


Also some posters

http://www.berr.gov.uk/fireworks/resources.htm

Angel xx

[angeldelight]

Some ideas and colouring pages here

http://www.activityvillage.co.uk/bonfire_night%20colouring.htm

Angel xx

[Tatia]

Songs/rhymes

One huge firework
Looking rather dull and blue.
Then it went WHOOSH
And how the sparks flew!
Red and green and gold stars
Falling through the sky.
Ending eith a great big bang
And then a little ss-sigh.
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Whoosh go the rockets, green and gold and red,

Bang, bang, bang, bang, exploding overhead.

Fizz go the fireworks, showering the ground,

Whizz go the Catherine wheels, whirling round and round.

The roar of the fire, the crackle of the flames,

See the silver sparklers hissing out our names.

Listen to the air bombs whee into the sky.

The sights and sounds of Bonfire Night.
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Wait for the evening,
cool and dark.
wait for the fizzle,
wait for the spark.

Whizz, crackle, bang!
Just watch us go,
golden rain
and sparkling snow.

Whizz, crackly, bang!
in the big, blue night,
making colours
for your delight.

Whizz, crackle, bang!
as we rush up high,
exploding colours
across the sky.
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10 little fireworks standing in a row
10 little fireworks standing in a row
When one little firework decides it's time to go
10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, blast off
There'll be 9 little fireworks standing in a row...
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Cracker Jack Crack (clap hands)
Cracker Jack Crack
Look for the cracker behind your back(Look over each shoulder)
He jumps to and fro (Jump legs together from side to side)
He jumps to and fro
And where he is going I really don't know!

Crick crack crick crack
A Catherine wheel and a jumping jack
Shooting rockets see them fly
Higher higher in the sky
Crick crack crick crack
A Catherine wheel and a jumping jack.
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(tume of London Bridge)
Bonfire night is here again
Here again
Here again
Bonfire night is here again
it's the fifth of november

verses

2 Build a bonfire with some wood..
3 Light the fire and watch the flames..
4 Stand well back and don't get burnt..
5 watch the rockets flying high..
6 Now the fire is dying down..
7 Let's hold hands and all walk home..
8 Time for bed, so curl up small...
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(To the tune of here we go round the mulberry bush)

Bonfire night is here again,
Here again, Here again,
Bonfire Night is here again,
It's the 5th of November

Light the fire and watch the flames,
Watch the flames, watch the flames
Light the fire and watch the flames.
It's the 5th November.

See the rockets flying high
Flying high, flying high
See the the rockets flying high
It's the 5th November
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(tune of London's Burning)

Bonfires Burning, Bonfires Burning,
See the fireworks, see the fireworks,
Crash, Bang, Crash Bang, [with appropriate large gestures]
In the night sky, in the night sky

[Tatia]

Lucy, your tar barell people sound cute. I've even got an old pair of jeans needing to be binned so I can cut out denim strips for trousers.:D I was thinking of doing a big Guy Fawkes with some of hubby's old clothes and rolled up newspaper, too. Love the idea someone mentioned of bonfire pics with orange, red and yellow paper.

I've also found lots of cute ideas for firework crafts like coloured pasta and noodles (ramen noodles would be great cos they're curly) for a 3D fireworks picture; the glitter and glue pics mentioned above; making Catherine Wheels with metallic pipe cleaners and bending into shape; rockets out of kitchen roll tubes (someone mentioned those too) covered in metallic paper.

Can you have too many bonfire night projects or do you think it's okay to have 1 a day?! I'm feeling spoilt for choice at the moment!

[PaulaR]

Tatia, Wow !!!

[Pudding Girl]

I've hit upon a good thing for bonfire night by accident today :D

We were painting cabbage leaves and printing with them, one of the ones with bubbles in (savoy is it?!) and when you paint the bobbly side and print it, they look just like fireworks!
Would be even better in neon or glitter paints and on black/navy paper.

[Tatia]

I could kiss you George! That sounds brill!:clapping:

[Pudding Girl]

Don't kiss me now, I have the BIg PURPLE ONE in my gob :) I'll go take a photo for you, back in 5

[Tatia]

I'll go take a photo for you, back in 5
What, of your big purple one?:panic:

:laughing:

By the way, I am assuming that means a cold sore and is not a euphamism for something...Pauline-y (naughty) in nature!:laughing:

[crazybones]

Don't kiss me now, I have the BIg PURPLE ONE in my gob :) I'll go take a photo for you, back in 5

:ROFL1: :ROFL1: :ROFL1:

[Pudding Girl]

What, of your big purple one?:panic:

:laughing:

By the way, I am assuming that means a cold sore and is not a euphamism for something...Pauline-y (naughty) in nature!:laughing:
Qulaity Street!!

Goodness, you lot.... :rolleyes: :eek:

here it is anyway, this was my one :blush: *I* think it looks like fireworks exploding anyway, so hope you can see where I am coming from with it lol

http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h187/Kiona31/041.jpg


http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h187/Kiona31/042.jpg

[Tatia]

They're gorgeous and the children will love squidging about with cabbage leaves. Thanks for that.


Mmm...Quality Street...is purple the fudge one?

[Pudding Girl]

nooo the runny caramel one with a nut in middle :)

[miffy]

We make chocolate sparklers - choc finger biscuits dipped quickly in hot water and then rolled in 100's and 1000's - yummy

Think this was one I pinched from Angel last year :)

Miffy xx

[Tatia]

I haven't tried this yet but it looks great. Got it off of Activity Village.

You dissolve sugar in warm water and then dip chalk into the water before drawing on black paper. Apparently, it makes the photo all glisteny. Wish I had some chalk here (keep forgetting to buy some) so I could experiment.

http://www.activityvillage.co.uk/sparkly_chalk_fireworks_picture.htm

[loocyloo]

i tried this one!

sugar water and chalk ....

its rather messy, the pictures (and the children) are rather sticky, and i don't think the chalks will ever be the same again!:laughing:

BUT, we had a really good time, and i hope i will have an excellent firework display on my cupboard doors, once i have given them all time to dry!!!

xxx

[devoncm]

Those pictures look fab- might go but a cabbage now.

[sarah707]

Bumping for November planning :D