Firework fun: Polystyrene printing

After raiding the arts and craft cupboard I found polystyrene packaging and thought they would be good to paint fireworks with.

Easy to do and makes a great print. Dylan didn't want to stamp he preferred painting with them.

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Firework fun: playdoh pinch

After a hectic couple of days I wanted a mess free firework activity. Dylan loves playdoh so we used that. We rolled a variety of colours  into balls  an then squashed them. I described how to pinch and pull the playdoh . He didn't get it right away he kept pinching it off . 

They looked great on the black shiny folder. 

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Firework fun: pepper printing

I had a clear out ready for a food shop and noticed the peppers not smelling too good so I thought we could use them when we do firework painting on the easel.

We only used the tops of the peppers as the had a handle, next time we will try without. Dylan is a bit funny with things like that. 

Again great picture , this was the third art project and the paints were a bit messy so I think it would have looked a lot different with a fresh paint pallet.

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Firework fun: pipe cleaner printing

I made a pipe cleaner firework printing instrument and the rest was up to Dylan.

He dipped the pipe cleaner brush and printed onto his paper. He made firework noises at the same time.

Picture looks great. I might swap it with one of the pieces in my wall frames.

I made two but the one where I used about four pipe cleaners twisted together was better as it was more sturdy and printed better.

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Firework fun: contact paper firework collage

I have been meaning to buy some contact paper and I finally noticed some and bought it in preparation for bonfire night. We used Dylan's new easel to attach the paper too ( although we did need to tilt it) I gave him a selection of materials and let him do the creative part.

The pom-poms and pipe cleaners didn't stick as well as I thought they would. Other items include:-

Stars

Shiney ribbon

Flourescent card stars

Lollipop sticks

Cotton buds

It was very easy for Dylan to do and didn't take him very long.

He also kept returning to it and moving them around.

I took a picture for his art album and put the items back in the craft pots.

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