Fireworks Resources
MY FIREWORKS SENSES POEM
These Firework Senses Poem mark making prompt sheets will help encourage your children to draw and/or write about their senses and start to get a feel for poetry!
Children can complete them at varying levels. For example, your youngest children may be able to tell you what they see or hear and you can scribe a single word in each box. Some children may like to make marks to represent what they sense and your more developed children may like to write the rest of the sentence thinking about describing words to build a picture in the reader’s mind. Please note, the words do not need to rhyme.
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FIREWORKS - Dice Game
Fireworks dice game - 10 designs to choose from! 1-6 dice required.
(Cut out and laminate the Fireworks pictures beforehand.)
• There are two sets of five puzzles. One with dots to count, one with numbers to read.
• The game could be played individually or as part of a turn-taking game.
• Roll dice and take the piece with the corresponding number.
• Keep going until you complete the picture!
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FIREWORK COLOUR SORTING GAME/ACTIVITY
Fun and engaging firework themed colour sorting game. Pack consists of 6 colour ‘splats’; red, blue, green, yellow, orange and purple. There are also 4 firework cards for each colour (fold backing tab before lamination for extra strength).
Decide which colours you would like your child(ren) to explore and encourage them to match the firework shapes with the appropriate colour splats.
Have fun!
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FIREWORK COLOUR CHECKLISTS
Which colours can you spot? Why not be creative with this resource?…
If at home, perhaps watching a firework display (outside or from a window), encourage your child(ren) to look out for the colours on the chart and tick them off as they see them.
Alternatively, watch a recording of a fireworks display and even hit pause to discuss and identify the colours you see.
For a more physical sensory experience, why not create objects to represent fireworks in a tuff spot or on a trail around your setting/home in the appropriate colours? Children can then tick them off as they find each colour.
If your children need extending, consider an element of counting and perhaps even tally mark making.
Have fun!
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FIREWORK EXPLOSION 2-PIECE PUZZLES
FIREWORK EXPLOSION - SIZE ORDERING CARDS
Firework explosion themed size ordering pictures. Intended to be cut out (and ideally laminated) for use by children in repeatable size ordering activities. If you have access to a fuzzy felt board, why not stick velcro tabs on the back so that children can move them around on the board? Alternatively use them as a cut and stick activity (to also strengthen fine motor skills) for the children to take home and discuss with their families using words such as ‘small, smaller, smallest, big, bigger, biggest’.
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FIREWORK ALPHABET
Alphabet lower case letters on firework explosions. Create a firework themed alphabet line, or place appropriate letters/sounds for your child(ren) in a tuff spot along with themed objects. Can children place the right objects next to their matching letter sound? Or play an ordering game…Can you place the alphabet letters in alphabetical order? Or perhaps play which letter is missing? After placing the letters in alphabetical order, take one away. Can your child(ren) work out which one is missing?
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FIREWORK SOUNDS - Early Phonics & Onomatopoeic Words
Onomatopoeic firework word posters. Ideal for use with young children (phonological awareness) to encourage them to develop and experiment with various speech sounds. Also ideal with slightly older children to explore onomatopoeic words (words which phonetically imitate the sound that is made by the object being described). The children will love to make up their own!
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FIREWORK SOUNDS - Early Phonics & Onomatopoeic Words - Colouring
Onomatopoeic firework word colouring posters. Ideal for use with young children (phonological awareness) to encourage them to develop and experiment with various speech sounds. Also ideal with slightly older children to explore onomatopoeic words (words which phonetically imitate the sound that is made by the object being described). The children will love to make up their own!
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FIREWORK RHYTHMS
Fireworks sound cards to encourage children’s sense of rhythm and enjoyment of making sounds. Cards are different lengths to show the duration of each sound. You could introduce the sounds to the children first, for example getting them to say the long sound ‘zoooooom’ a few times in a row. Then showing them that the ‘bang’ sound is shorter and two bangs are equal to one zoooooom! You could follow this by showing the cards so that they have a visual cue as you develop different rhythms with them.
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FIREWORK SAFETY CARDS - COLOURING
FIREWORKS ACTIVITY CHALLENGE
Have great fun with your children moving like Fireworks with this set of 6 Fireworks Activity Challenge cards. Perhaps children could stand in a circle around the pile of cards and take turns to pick one for everyone to do. Cards could equally be shrunk down and placed on a key ring to take out on adventures or featured on an indoor or outdoor display board and referred to with everyone carrying out the activity on floor space in front. Once the children get to know the cards they will be able to relate the action to the picture without necessarily needing the card read to them...For example an adult may be able to simply hold up a card and everyone will be able to do the activity together! For those children who are exceptionally engaged, these cards explored in sequence could even be set to music as a dance performance! Great for physical development, descriptive language, understanding the world and turn taking.
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ROCKET COUNTDOWN GAME
Why not try this fun and engaging rocket themed memory game with your children? Develops turn taking skills, memory, shape and number recognition (and ordering). Children will love building their rockets…and then perhaps making firework noises once they are complete and launching into the sky. Maybe you could choose a particular firework sound to say once each person completes their rocket, e.g. ‘whoosh!’’
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