A Fun Craft for Kids: Pipe Cleaner Fireworks

Fireworks are used for all types of Celebrations. You have the 4th of July, New Year, Olympic games, and more!

Fireworks are pretty and make a great craft for kids of all ages to make.

This is a super simple craft that kids of all ages can make and create. It is a great open-ended art project that they can try.

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This is a great addition to our 4th of July printables. Plus it could also work for New Years’ Eve as well!

There are so many fun ways to make fireworks and this one is super easy for kids of all ages to make them. You can see how creative they are with the colors and shapes of the fireworks.

A fun book to read with this craft is The Explosive Story of Fireworks!. It is a level 3 reader but has loads of great information about fireworks.

What you need to make your Pipe Cleaner Fireworks

• black construction paper
• clear glue
• pipe cleaners – various colors cut up
• scissors – See use below

How we made the Pipe Cleaner Fireworks

You are going to see some steps use used below and suggestions about the firework art project. Plus remember this is of totally flexible in how kids want to make them.

Arrange the Pipe Cleaners on the Paper

You take the pipe clears and arrange them on paper to make a firework. You can lay out all the fireworks at once or one at a time. Let kids be creative with their fireworks.

Glue the Pipe Cleaners on the Paper

After you have at least one firework arranged on paper you can glue down one pipe cleaner at a time. You can see we used clear glue for this.

This step lets kids keep their firework design together while gluing.

Cutting the Pipe Cleaners

If you have older kids you can let them cut the pipe cleaners. This allows them to make small lines to arrange how they want.

Older Kids the Pipe Cleaners Fireworks

If you have older kids that you want to do this with they might do better arrange their fireworks how they want. We found that my older girls liked to do the fireworks one at a time with arranging and gluing.

Final look at our Pipe Cleaner Fireworks

More Fireworks Craft & Activities

Fireworks Number Dot Marker & Counting has dot marker number and dot markers on the fireworks for counting.

Oil Pastel Fireworks is a simple fireworks mad with oil pastels.

Fireworks ABC Color & Count is a counting the letters and coloring the fireworks by letter.

Finger Painting Fireworks is a super fun finger painting of fireworks.

Fireworks Skip Counting Mats from 1 to 12 works on skip counting with fireworks.

Check out all the fun Fourth of July Activities & Printables on 3 Dinosaurs.

Cassie – 3Dinosaurs.com