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Easy-to-make fireworks craft using salt

9 Comments Preschool, Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade

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Fireworks and 4th of July go together like peanut butter and jelly. Like salt and pepper. Like ketchup and mustard. Basically, it’s hard for me to conceive of 4th of July without fireworks! How can you get your kids in the 4th of July fireworks spirit?  Check out this simple fireworks craft you can make at home. In fact, you probably already have all the ingredients you need to make these simple salt fireworks!

Note: For more 4th of July activities and printables, see my 4th of July activities page.

Simple fireworks craft using salt and glue || Gift of Curiosity

We completed this craft over two days. On the first day, the kids used glue to draw the shape of their  fireworks.  We used a thicker cardstock paper for best results, but you can do this activity with any paper you have. Note that I also had the kids do everything on our work trays to help contain the mess.

XGirl drew some traditional and some abstract fireworks.

Simple fireworks craft using salt and glue || Gift of Curiosity

QBoy wanted to emulate a swirling firework he had seen in an online video about fireworks.

Simple fireworks craft using salt and glue || Gift of Curiosity

After “drawing” their fireworks in glue, the kids sprinkled a very liberal amount of salt on top of the glue. To facilitate the process, I put salt in two empty spice containers.

Simple fireworks craft using salt and glue || Gift of Curiosity

Then we waited a day for the glue to dry.

The next day, I squirted a tiny bit of our Colorations Liquid Watercolor Paints into our plastic paint palettes. (If you don’t have liquid watercolors you could also use food coloring or even fruit juice.)

Simple fireworks craft using salt and glue || Gift of Curiosity

Then I handed each kid a plastic pipette.  They used the plastic pipettes to suction up the liquid watercolor to drip onto their salt fireworks.

Simple fireworks craft using salt and glue || Gift of Curiosity

Amazement ensued as they watched how one drip of color on the salt slowly spread and spread and spread.

Simple fireworks craft using salt and glue || Gift of Curiosity

Then they got busy adding color to the rest of the fireworks as well.

Simple fireworks craft using salt and glue || Gift of Curiosity

Simple fireworks craft using salt and glue || Gift of Curiosity

And finally, QBoy decided to use his leftover liquid watercolors to paint his own fireworks. 🙂

Simple fireworks craft using salt and glue || Gift of Curiosity

More 4th of July resources

More 4th of July posts from Gift of Curiosity:

  • Books about the American flag
  • 4th of July Montessori activities
  • Fireworks in a jar
  • 4th of July sensory bin
  • Sticky paper American flag craft
  • 4th of July Printables Pack
  • 4th of July do-a-dot printables
  • 4th of July Bingo
  • 4th of July Sudoku
  • American flag printables


For more 4th of July activities, see me 4th of July Activities page and my 4th of July Pinterest board.

Follow Gift of Curiosity’s board 4th of July on Pinterest.

Products mentioned in this post:

Colorations Liquid Watercolor Paint 8 oz.

Filed Under: 4th of July, Arts and Crafts, Preschool, Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade Tagged With: salt, liquid watercolors

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9 Comments

  1. Growing Up Madison

    July 2, 2013 at 1:28 pm

    My 8yr old would love this. Thank you for sharing and its so easy to do too. 🙂

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  2. Tess

    July 3, 2013 at 10:42 am

    Wish I would have seen this earlier! We just did 4th crafts. lol

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  3. Georgina @ Craftulate

    July 4, 2013 at 3:52 pm

    These look great! Hopping over from Tender Moments linky.

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    • Katie

      July 4, 2013 at 4:32 pm

      Thanks so much for stopping by!

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  4. Natalie

    July 6, 2013 at 10:39 am

    Salt fireworks is such a fun craft! We also did fireworks recently, but no salt (and no mess :))

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    • Katie

      July 6, 2013 at 1:36 pm

      It’s true things have the potential to get a bit messy when making the salt fireworks, but the fun of shaking the salt onto the glue makes up for it. 🙂

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  5. Beth

    July 9, 2013 at 3:12 am

    Looks very cool. What a fun firework craft/activity =)

    Thanks for linking up to TGIF! Have a great week,
    Beth

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  6. Carrie

    July 12, 2013 at 11:39 am

    Very fun and pretty! Thank you for sharing at Sharing Saturday!!

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  7. Katie

    July 13, 2013 at 10:18 pm

    Thanks so much for featuring our salt fireworks!

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