Last week we were celebrating Guy Fawkes night! It was actually on Thursday but we watched the big fireworks display on Saturday night because the community centre near our house puts on a huge display so we all just stand outside and have an amazing view! More about that later.
On Wednesday evening my two little nieces came round to play after school. My sister had a migraine so I sent her to have a nap while I got on with some Fireworks painting with the little ones.
First we chose brightly coloured paints (handy hint -add a little pva glue to your paint when using glitter on top as this helps the glitter to stay stuck once the paint dries)
Next we got an assortment of paint brushes and old toothbrushes (another handy hint - add a little water to your paint and pva mix if using toothbrushes as runnier paint makes flicking it a lot easier)
Then I took some black card (A4 size) and cut the edges in a zig-zag fashion to make them look like explosions!
Once we had all those things in place we got started splattering and flicking paint onto the card.
They wanted to use toothbrushes and paintbrushes to just paint flicking lines and star shapes rather than flicking the bristles but that still worked. The littlest niece got in with her fingers, scraping the paint too, which was actually quite effective. Once they were happy with their designs I got them them to sprinkle multi-coloured glitter over the paint and shake the excess into a tray to be tipped back for later use.
Once they were dry I added them to the display with the haunted houses from Halloween all ready for our family Guy Fawkes Night Celebrations!
On the Saturday after Guy Fawkes we had 8 adults and 5 children at my house to watch the fireworks display! Before we went out the little ones had a jacket potato for dinner then all the adults had a Chili with rice so we were well fed and warmed up before going out there!
I then sat the children down and we opened our big packs of glow sticks and made them into necklaces and bracelets. My mum had also brought some along that were wider and hung on lanyards. We didn't do this last year and it was quite hard to spot them all out there on the dark field so this year we were better prepared and they were much easier to keep track of!
Last year we took out hot chocolates with marshmallows to keep us warm out there but I didn't think of it this year. Fortunately my lovely neighbour brought us out some Mulled Wine although the weather was much milder than this time last year so we weren't too cold.
The display was great and the children were mesmerized! Olivia doesn't like the big bangs though so she had her ear muffs on to help with the noise! Plenty of 'oooh's and 'aaah's were had by all! We then met up with our other neighbours and their two girls and we got out the sparklers and talked to the children about sparkler safety and made sure they were all wearing gloves. Everybody had at least two turns (including the big kids!)
Finally it was all back into our house (including the neighbours) for tea and birthday cake as my mum and cousin both have birthdays in the next week. Once the happy birthdays were sung and the cake was eaten the little ones were getting very tired. We said our goodbyes and put them to bed before cleaning up and falling into bed ourselves! Well this year's Guy Fawkes Night certainly went with a bang!
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