As a final touch to your picnic, glue hamburgers to paper plates, and add cut-out chips. Sprinkle lightly with glitter for an even more sparkley effect. Once the paint is on the paper, they are to blow the paint around with the straw to look like fireworks. After paint has dried, glue red, white and blue crepe paper streamers to tube. After ends are glued shut, then glue on streamers.
Children can stick on stars.
Then play a variety of patriotic songs such as Yankee Doodle, Stars and Stripes Forever, You're a Grand Old Flag, etc. Have children decorate bells as desired. By blowing into the straw onto the paint, it will cause the paint to spread and look like fireworks. Do not mix the colors though. Then, I have the children use a popsicle stick or tongue depressor to dip the long edge of the stick into the paint across the colors.