Fireworks Painting Activity

Who’s ready to celebrate with a Fireworks painting activity!

This little project is so fun and easy to do! Jane (2 years old) loved it but I think kids of just about any age would have fun with this one!

We did this to celebrate the 4th of July but you could paint fireworks for New Year or any patriotic holiday.

Setup

The setup for this is super quick! I got everything ready during nap time and still had time to take a little nap myself. Woot woot!

All you need is:

• Paint (we used tempera paint for easy cleanup) (affiliate link)
• Paper plates
• Toilet paper rolls
• Scissors
• Paper (we used white and black paper)

The only prep needed for this fireworks painting activity is to cut the toilet paper tubes (btw, YAY for recycling!) Simply use your scissors to cut slits into the tube. Cut from one end to about halfway up the tube and cut many slits all the way around to make a sort of cardboard fringe! Refer to the pictures.

Once you have cut slits all the way around the tube use your hand to fray them outwards and then gently press against a hard surface so they all stick out evenly. Don’t push down very hard though because it will make them start to point upwards and that won’t work once you get painty.

Start Painting

From here, all you need to do is squirt some paint onto a paper plate and show your kid how to use the fringed paper tube as a stamp in the paint! I found squirting the paint in a circle is best. There’s no need for paint to be in the middle of your fireworks.

I got a lot of pictures of this project and, as you can see, she loved this!

I did have to remind her a few times to be gentle. As I mentioned before, If you stamp too hard with the tube the paper fringe starts to stick up and you basically just get circles. The center tube part should not really make contact with the paper.

Another thing we tried, in the end, was stamping on black paper with some white paint. That was super cool and honestly my favorite. It looks like fireworks in the night sky! I squeezed paint rings on the paper plate with red white and blue for the black paper and it was very pretty and festive! I would just warn against putting red and blue together because they will turn purple. Not that I have anything against purple fireworks haha!

I hope you and your littles enjoy this fireworks painting activity as much as we did! If you post your artwork on social media I would love to be tagged @thatmamachick So I can feature you in my stories!

Happy 4th of July and Happy Painting!