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    Bonfire Night paper origami rockets

    November 5, 2025 - By 

    Looking for a fun paper craft to celebrate Bonfire Night and all those colourful rockets? Try our paper origami rockets with the kids this year. List of supplies: Coloured papers (medium-light weight) Craft glue A pair of scissors How to make paper origami rockets: Prepare a 4” x 4” square paper for the rocket, 2” x 2” yellow, and 1” x 1” orange paper for the fire part. Let’s start with the fire pattern. Take the yellow square paper and fold it in half, diagonally. Mark the middle point of the current pattern’s closed side. Fold down the right corner…

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    11 Firework and Bonfire Night crafts for kids

    November 2, 2016 - By 

    It was so cold and frosty this morning that you can definitely tell Winter is on it’s way. Are you celebrating Bonfire Night this week? We are looking forward to going to our local firework display. I’ve always loved fireworks and thankfully the children do too. I thought I would mark Bonfire Night and the tradition of setting off fireworks with a round up of 11 of my favourite crafts for kids. 11 Firework and Bonfire Night crafts for kids Easy cardboard tube rockets from the gingerbread house Paper plate fireworks by treading on lego Constellation lacking cards for firework…

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    Bonfire Night craft for kids

    October 12, 2016 - By 

    Every year we try and take the children to a Bonfire Night celebration. Bonfire Night is an important event in British history and I want my children to understand the meaning behind events such as this. I always think that crafting and making reinforces the things we are talking about at home which is why we crafted our own paper bonfire! We used: Cardboard tubes Brown tissue paper Bostik White Glu Paper plate + black paint Orange and yellow tissue paper How to make a Bonfire Night craft with kids First we painted a paper plate with black paint. This…

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    Cardboard tube rockets

    October 25, 2015 - By 

    I know that we are yet to celebrate Halloween but we have been busy thinking about crafts for Bonfire Night too. The other day we experimented with paper plate fireworks and today we wanted to share our cardboard tube rockets. To make cardboard tube rockets you will need: Cardboard tubes Metallic paint and paint brushes Card Star stickers Ribbon Plasticene How to make cardboard tube rockets: We painted our tubes with gold and silver metallic paint. Whilst they were drying we cut circles from cardboard to make the tops, painting them with the gold and silver paint too. When they had…

  • FIREWORK SCRATCH PAPER
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    How to make your own scratch paper

    October 21, 2015 - By 

    I love sharing the crafts I enjoyed as a child with my own children. I’ve seen plenty of scratch art kits around but nothing beats making your own from scratch – sorry, couldn’t resist.   Equipment needed to make your own scratch paper Card Wax crayons Black acrylic paint Washing up liquid Sponge How to make your own scratch paper Cover your sheet of card with the crayon. You can do this anyway you like. My 5 year old carefully coloured small squares of colour, my 3 year old was less structured and demanded I finish it off for her.…

  • HOW TO MAKE EDIBLE SPARKLERS
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    How to make edible sparklers

    November 3, 2013 - By 

    I love this time of year as there’s so much going on – Halloween, Bonfire Night, Remembrance Sunday and of course Christmas. We were out shopping yesterday and Toys R Us were playing Christmas music and John Lewis had their decorations up! I felt a little festive but it does seem to start earlier each year. Anyway, the children really enjoyed Halloween this year; they dressed up, insisted on our pumpkin being lit every evening for a week and especially loved seeing the local children knock on our door whilst they were out trick or treating. I’m not sure if…