Tempera paints, both warm and cool colors are needed. Straws, one straw for every color at every station plus one per student. Paper towels or rags. Students should have previous knowledge of this holiday and what the fireworks display. A book or videotape of a firework display might be a good lead-in to this lesson.
Paper can be horizontal or vertical.
Explain to the children that they will then take their straw and blow the paint into a circle-like shape. Show them how some fireworks can stretch way down while still being skinny, while other fireworks are fat and explode in many different directions. The paper may be turned as the students are working so that they can get the best angle to work from. Encourage them to think of other designs or pattern that they have seen. After showing them a couple of designs, encourage the children to use more than one color on some of their fireworks.