bonfire night craft Archives

One last bonfire night craft to finish off the firework season. My girls and I all had fun making these felt fireworks today with a mixture of coloured felt and seed beads. I had an idea in my head to make them double sided and then make a mobile; I think I still will but these ended up being lovely little sewing projects. Josie, Amelie and I all made simple ones but naturally Maddy really went to town and her version is a triumph!

These are really easy; we made some shape templates using Microsoft Word and then cut out explosions and tails for our fireworks in coloured felt. Then we cut out a rough black shape for them to be pinned to and threaded up a needle in a complimenting embroidery thread colour. Each bead is threaded on to the needle as it comes through from the back and then we stitched back down into almost the same spot. The result is that you can hardly see the thread and there is a lovely sparkle from them. Maddy used really tiny beads and loads of them, which made it looked positively jeweled!

Once all the beads were on and the thread tied off, I trimmed the black to make it fit more closely to the coloured shapes. Maddy did hers really close, which looks better I think. All that is left to do is stitch on a hanging loop and then glue another piece of black to the back to hide the stitches and then these will make lovely firework night decorations for Josie, our November 5th baby, for a long time to come!

We thought we were up against it with this particular craft but yet again Maddy came up trumps, with a little imaginative help from another sister. So here it is, a pom pom craft for Firework Night 😆

One navy blue or black large popm pom to be the sky. Then take some pipe cleaners and twist them into coils around your finger. Push one end into the centre of the pompom and secure it by bending in over the yarn that holds all the strands together. The yarn will help hold them in place. Make a series of them and hang them in a wreath or at the window. Use sparkly pipe cleaners if you have them to hand or decorate the pom poms by spraying glue and glitter on, or stars or even by using sparkly thread wound in when you make it.

If you remember to leave the yarn that ties it together as a long thread, you’ll have a loop to hold it together. We didn’t, so you get Josie’s fingers modeling this quick and fun bonfire night activity. I think with some glue and glitter and sparkly pipe cleaners, they’d look great hanging in a window as long strands of dangling indoor fireworks!

Firework Decorations in Felt.

Pom Pom Firework Craft