Bonfire Night Ideas - Linked to EYFS

[ruby]

thank you so much

great ideas

cathy

[Chimps Childminding]

Thanks Angel, some great ideas on there - might have to pinch a few

[sue]

you are a star you have made next week much easier for me thank you l really love this time of year with the kids as soon as we finish one thing we are on to the next

[busylizzie]

Thamk you so much. That is so generous of you to share your hard work.Youve made next week so much easier for me ......... half term still here and inset days You are truly a star

[marion123]

thanks angel they are great

[beerheaven]

Wow! Very impressive. Thanks a lot - I will defo. incorporate some of your ideas into my planning for next week.

[mushpea]

thanks so much for that angel, my daughter has just turend 10 and loves to cook so we are going to try that toffee recipe later today and will be doing some of the other stuff with the mindees next week and i can't wait.

[kirka]

Hi do you have any ideas with regards to weekly planning. I run a childminder drop-in once a week for 2 hours. I am trying to do weekly planning would love to hear from you with regards to ideas I could pinch.

Many thanks

[loocyloo]

thanks for those ideas angel,

going to keep me busy!

xxx

[Heaven Scent]

My tried and tested one is get a shreet of black sugar paper get children to splatter paint on it all different colours - then get the children to paint upward different strokes red, orange green and blue fromthe bottom of the sheet with the longest being about 3/4 way to the top then we gather up leaves and tiny twigs from the garden and glue them to the bottom of the picture and hey presto we have a simple but effective bonfire night picture complete with fireworks and its all their own work you can either do one large one for display and/or they can do smaller individual ones to take home. I have been know when I was teaching to then add a fireplace to the fire and hang cristmas stockings/decorations from the fireplace - its a busy time of year in schools so I would find as many ways as possible to make life less complicated - I also used to manange use my outdoor display to evolve over the course of the Autumn/winter term just by keeping it simple and including a tree which I would just add and take away leaves and add lights to then I would just blue tac the rest of the scene to it. e.g scarecrows/rockets/ rooftops with santa,sleigh and reindeer silhouetts all made by the children using templets. I hate dooing displays so I always keep them simple as possible.

[MissTinkerbell]

Thanks Angel - saved me some time this weekend - just need to adapt the ideas for 2 year olds. Going to make the toffee with my DD and the over 8s.

Thanks so much again for sharing.

[Nicki L]

Thanks Angel

Cut my research time right down!!!

[nell57]

Thank you, thank you, thank you Angel

Helen

[breezy]

You really are an angel, thank you so much x

[angeldelight]

You could use some of these ideas Marie?

Angel xx

[It's a small world]

Personal, Social and Emotional Development

Make a "bonfire" with different foods
Use different coloured veg - cabbage - carrots - red apple peel and red peppers or whatever you have
Use celery sticks to build up a fire - break them and stand / support them onto each other
Pile the veg around it to make it look like a " fire "

Ask children to close their eyes and imagine they can see and hear fireworks in the dark sky above them. What feelings do they have?
Collect together all the words that children associate with their
experiences of fireworks and build up a ‘thought web’ and display all the new words that they learn

Bonfire night provides a good talking point to reinforce the importance of fire safety. Let your children help you to test your smoke alarms around the home and explain how important it is that they are working. Children love pressing the button and hearing the piercing noise!

Problem solving, Reasoning and Numeracy

Cook some sausages and Jacket Potatoes
Count the sausages and sing the song " Five Fat Sausages "

Five fat sausages sizzling in a pan
one went pop the other went bang.

Four fat sausages sizzling in a pan
one went pop the other went bang.

Three fat sausages sizzling in a pan
one went pop the other went bang.

Two fat sausages sizzling in a pan
one went pop the other went bang.

One fat sausage sizzling in a pan
one went pop the other went bang.

No fat sausages sizzling in a pan.

Make a counting book using different fireworks - catherine wheels - rockets etc make it colourful and fun

Physical Development

Help the children to create different movements
Crouch down and pretend to be flames to music
Jump up in the air and around the room
Pretend to be sparklers and rockets and make loud noises and banging sounds

Creative Development

Make a guy with the children
Collect old clothes and make it together
Explain how children used to go around singing " penny for the guy " and how adults used to give them money

Or toast marshmallows on sticks and cook some bonfire foods

Make some treacle toffee

Treacle Toffee.

You will need: 1 lb. (450g) of Demerara sugar,
3 oz. (75g) butter,
4 oz. (125g) golden syrup
4 oz. (125g) black treacle
quarter tsp. cream of tartar and a quarter of a pint (150ml) of water.

Start by buttering an oblong tin measuring about 30cm x 10cm x 2.5cm.

Children enjoy greasing tins! Pour the water into a saucepan and warm over a low heat adding the sugar and stir it until it dissolves. Add the remaining ingredients and bring to the boil without stirring – please make sure the children keep well away for this bit and don’t try to touch or taste it, sugar burns are nasty.

Pour the mixture into the buttered tin and stand for about 5 minutes. Mark into squares with a buttered knife then leave to set before breaking up and eating!


Communication,language and literacy

Encourage children to learn new rhymes about bonfire night

Remember, remember, the fifth of November,
Gunpowder, treason and plot.
I see no reason why gunpowder treason
Should ever be forgot!
Guy Fawkes, Guy Fawkes,
‘Twas his intent
To blow up the King and Parliament.
Three score barrels of powder below,
Poor old England to overthrow.
By God’s providence he was catched
With a dark lantern and burning match.

Read some stories and explain what bonfire night is
Get the children to write a story about bonfire night and fireworks, and about the sounds that they might hear

http://www.welephant.co.uk/bonfirestory000.htm

Play some games

http://www.welephant.co.uk/gamezonemenu.htm

Knowledge and understanding of the world

Learn new words and shapes

http://www.sparklebox.co.uk/topic/fest/firework.html

Make a firework picture with twigs for the fire and glitter for the fireworks.
Make a rocket - Rockets can be made from cardboard tubes covered in paper and then decorated. Paper cones can be made for the tops of the rockets. Add different coloured streamers at the end to look like like flames

Or make a picture using .....

A large sheet of black cardboard
Scraps of coloured paper and card

Cardboard tubes (kitchen roll etc)
Small sheets of coloured cardboard

Glue and scissors
Clear or black thread

A selection of sparkly things! (e.g. metallic pens, scraps of tinsel, glitter, bright pipe cleaners, sparkly paints)

Then make lots of swirls and shapes - let the kids have fun

Make some rockets

http://www.blackcatfireworks.ltd.uk/...hings-to-make/

Teach children how rockets change and what they do when you light them.
Explain about the colours and the noise
Explain about safety.
Explain why how bonfire night tell the story

http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch...stoms/guy.html

great ideas.. better than mine... thanks

[peanuts]

thank you so much. you are a star.

[angeldelight]

Bumping this back up also

Angel xx

[estrelas]

And this

Gosh I really need to be here more

Thanks again xxxx

[patevans]

Fab thanks Angel