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Bonfire Night Crafts

Fireworks Display Mobile!

This large-scale display is easy to make using junk and craft materials that you already have lying around the house. 

You will need:

Black construction paper (optional)
Scraps of coloured paper and card
Cardboard tubes (loo rolls, kitchen rolls)
Glue and Scissors
Clear nylon thread or black thread 

Sparkly things, such as:
- scraps of tinsel 
- gel pens and metallic pens
- old foil Christmas decorations
- sparkly pipe-cleaners
- sparkly pom-poms
- glitter and glitter glue
- sequins, beads
- gold coin cases

Don't worry if you don't have all of the bits and pieces listed above - let your kids use their imagination and anything sparkly they can lay their hands on to create their own display!

Instructions:

Decide whether you want your mobile to have a "background". Using a dresser top, desk area or corner of a classroom you can make a very effective display by covering part of the wall behind it with black construction paper, hanging your fireworks and rockets just in front of the background, and perhaps adding a selection of toys to the dresser top to watch the display!

To make a background:
Let the children loose on several large pieces of black construction paper with gel pens, glitter glue, sequins, beads etc. Show them how to draw spirals and starbursts, and explain to older children that the larger designs will look closer than the smaller designs. Mount the paper onto the wall in a position where you will be able to hang your "mobile" objects slightly in front of it.

To make rockets:
Cover your cardboard tubes with brightly coloured paper or card, or scraps of metallic paper. Make a cone out of more card and attach to the front of the rocket, and add wings if you wish. Attach two lengths of thread to the rocket, one about half way down the length of the rocket and one about an inch below the nose. Adjust the threads and tie them together so that the rocket will hang at an angle, pointing upwards. Decorate the rocket with glitter, sequins, etc, if you wish.

To make Catherine Wheels:
Take a number of metallic pipe-cleaners and bend into shape, joining if necessary. Attach thread to hang.

To make Starbursts:
Small pieces of Christmas tinsel (about 2 inches long) make excellent fireworks, simple suspended by thread tied around the middle of the length. You could also use shredded foil tied together, individual gold coin cases attached back to back with thread sandwiched between them, or metallic pom-poms of different sizes and colours.

Assembling the mobile:

Try to suspend the mobile objects a little in front of the background to give a good 3D effect. If this is not possible, simply attach to the background with glue or sticky-tape, or suspend anywhere without a background (they can look very effective hanging from a curtain rail against a view of a dark night)

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