This fun activity will introduce your children drawing their own fireworks! It is best suited for younger children in smaller groups.
Follow our simple step-by-step guide to have a go at this activity today:
Show the children how to draw firework shapes (simple asterisks) in the black rice to reveal the colours underneath, helping them explore their creativity with their own images. Encourage them to explore how the rice feels in their hands (but keep an eye out for any rice making its way towards little mouths!).
At the end of the activity, why not take a photo of your Early Years’ creations to send home to their parents?
Tracking the activity:
8-20 months
Physical Development: Moving and Handling: “Enjoys the sensory experience of making marks in damp sand, paste or paint.”
Expressive arts and design: Exploring and using media and materials: “Explores and experiments with a range of media through sensory exploration, and using whole body.; Notices and is interested in the effects of making movements which leave marks.”
16-26 months
Physical Development: Moving and Handling: “Makes connections between their movement and the marks they make.”
Expressive arts and design: Exploring and using media and materials: “Explores and experiments with a range of media through sensory exploration, and using whole body.; Notices and is interested in the effects of making movements which leave marks.”
22-36 months
Physical Development: Moving and Handling: “Imitates drawing simple shapes such as circles and lines.; May be beginning to show preference for dominant hand.”
Expressive arts and design: “Experiments with blocks, colours and marks.”