Watercolor Pencil Fireworks Craft for Kids

Watercolor pencils are great for painting. And these watercolor pencil fireworks are super easy to color and paint for kids.

Plus they work great to make for fireworks at home. This painting craft can work with different ages of kids.

It is a great open ended art project that works great for the Fourth of July and New Years Eve.

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The watercolor pencil fireworks painting is a great addition to the Fourth of July Paintings on the site.

You can have some fun doing this firework painting before or after the fireworks. It is a fun way to draw fireworks and add something that makes it extra special.

The Explosive Story of Fireworks is a great book to read with this firework watercolor painting.

What we used to make the Watercolor Pencil Fireworks Painting

• watercolor pencils
• watercolor paper – We use this paper because the colors spread out really pretty and water does not bleed through.
• paint brush
• pencil – for younger kids see below

How we made the Watercolor Pencil Fireworks Painting

You can see the simple steps below that we used to make the watercolor firework painting!

Draw the Fireworks with the Watercolor Pencils

You can let kids be creative in drawing their fireworks. They can draw one two three or more, Let them decide what fireworks they are going to make.

You want to make sure you draw nice dark lines on the watercolor paper.

You can mix the watercolor pencils on the firework drawing or just a simple one color firework.

For younger kids you can use a pencil and draw a firework on the page they can trace with the watercolor pencil, but let them be creative with this.

Fill the Watercolor Paper the Fireworks

You want to fill the paper up with as many fireworks as you want. This can be a few or many. You can see we did a mix of fireworks on our pages.

Use Water to Paint the Fireworks

You can use a small brush or a bigger brush with the water. We used smaller brushes with our fireworks. You can see how the color spreads as you add the water.

Be sure to paint the whole thing. You can always go back and repaint with more water as well.

It is fun to see the color spread and still have a nice solid line.

Final look at our Watercolor Pencil Fireworks Painting

Firework Mat to Color

If you love the idea but want a template or something kids can color. They check out the firework fine motor mat!

Check out these Fireworks Crafts and Printables

Piper Cleaner Fireworks are a simple process art that kids can do to make fireworks. They can be as creative as they want.

Easy to Make Oil Pastel Fireworks is a super simple craft that kids can do last minute. It is fun and easy.

No-Prep Fireworks ABC Color & Count is a fun activity where you find the uppercase letter and color by a code. Then you get to count how many of each letter. It is a fun alphabet activity for kids to do.

Fireworks Number Dot Marker & Counting has numbers from 1 to 20 plus 0 if you need it with dot marker numbers and dot markers on a firework.

Fireworks Prewriting Printable has 8 prewriting strip printables that you can use with kids. They work on vertical tracing.

Fireworks Fine Motor Mat Printable has 3 different mats for kids to use with fireworks that is loads of fun for kids.

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

Cassie – 3Dinosaurs.com