We love Bonfire night and fireworks and I need little excuse to get the paint out! So we have had a go at pipe cleaner printing and making fireworks on black paper as they look so effective. These Pipe cleaner firework prints are easy to do and look great too.
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Materials:
- Black paper
- Paint – we used metallic and nonmetallic poster paints
- Pipe cleaners
- Paper plates
How to make pipe cleaner firework prints
We started by making our pipe cleaners into the shape we wanted. We used 4 30cm pipe cleaners bend in half and then twisted round to create a handle to hold and spread the ends out like above.
We used a paper plate for each of the colours of paint and made a pipe cleaner star for each of the paints as to stop contamination of colour, plus it meant that everyone could get involved as there were lots of pipe cleaner printers.
Dip the pipe cleaners in paint and stamp it on the piece of paper. Make sure you press press each pipe cleaner against the paper.
We also did this with glow in the dark paint and the result was amazing.
Even the most art reluctant child seems unable to say no to the lure of paints and a huge sheet of blank paper!
That looks like a lot of fun, and exactly the sort of messy craft my boy loves!
Oh wow that is amazing, they really do look like fireworks! x
I never knew you could buy glow in the dark paint! Oh , the possibilities!
These look ingenious Jen and I am sure even I could have ago at this without breaking or running it too much .. i think 🙂
Bugs would love to have a go at this, must get some black paper when I go out.
This looks like a really fun activity and the results are very effective.
A much safer way of pplaying with firworks that is for usre and they look so colourful too.
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This looks like a lot of fun – I love messy crafts 😉
This looks so great – and simple too. Ooooh I will have to get some glow in the dark paint, the children would love that! Kaz x
What a great idea, Jenny, I will do these with Emma tomorrow, we were away this weekend and saw fireworks twice so this would be the perfect activity for us!xx
I have a load of pipe cleaners and had no idea what to do with them – great idea, thank you
what a great craft activity this is I love it
What a great craft and totally agree, anything to do with paint or messy play and my three won’t be held back!
Oh how fabulous Jen, these look like great fun! Poppy would no doubt distribute paint everywhere as she often does! I love the idea of glow in the dark paint, we’ve not tried that yet. Must have a look x