I grabbed some paper plates to squirt out red and blue paint for easy clean up. Cole insisted on gold too! Use the cookie cutters like a stamp. Dip in the paint and then on the paper. We used a whisk for firework-like splashes too.
Shaving cream is a great sensory project and the fireworks are so much fun to make. Spread shaving cream on a cookie sheet, add dots of red and blue (combine some) then take a toothpick and drag it from the center out. You just made fireworks! You can take your masterpiece and make it into a shirt by placing a shirt face down right in the shaving cream and lifting up carefully. It looks messy but scrape with a piece of cardboard and you've got a beautiful fireworks t-shirt. Or you can take a piece of paper like cardstock or watercolor paper and place right on top of your fireworks. Do the same thing, lift up carefully then scrape the excess shaving cream. Once you're done, you have a sheet of shaving cream to play with and swirl the colors. What happens if you mix red and blue?
For this we used some red and blue washi tape patterns. You could even use strips of patterned red, white and blue scrapbook papers. I have an excessive amount of washi tape though. Yikes! Take a piece of wax paper and place it flat. Randomly tape the piece of washi tape across the wax paper. Put two pieces of regular paper or patterned paper cardstock would look nice together and cut out a heart from the center. Glue around one heart and place the wax paper on top. Glue around the other heart and sandwich it together. Trim around your heart leaving about half an inch. We put scotch tape on ours and put it up on our sliding glass door.
I bought a pack of 5 wooden spoons at the dollar store. I thought it would be an easy item to pack away in our Patriotic tote with this year's date to take out year after year. I wouldn't use this spoon for any type of food prep since it was just made with acrylic paint, not food safe paint. I gave Cole a paintbrush and red, blue and of course gold paint. Easy peasy! Write the date with a sharpie when you're done. He will probably use it for pretend cooking but you could add it to a vase for a decoration.
Here is another simple painting project for the kiddos. Buy a piece of 1x1 wood and cut it in varying heights for your fireworks. Let your kids have it with the red, white and blue paint. Let them dry, then twist a piece of wire in the top and wrap with a piece of twine. To get my wire round and twisty, I use a pen or a paint brush to wrap the wire around.
What activities for the the Fourth of July do you plan on making with your kids?
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