Bonfire Scene Art Activity

It's coming up to that time of year again that Lily loves but hates at the same time. Bonfire night.

Lily isn't a big fan of the fireworks but we do always like to get involved with bonfire night. The way we do this is by doing some sort of art activity.

Last year we made a bonfire out of tissue paper and foam for the sticks. You can see this activity here. 

This year we decided to make a 3d bonfire scene with our friends.

Firstly we headed to The Range to buy our crafty bits that we needed. We grabbed brown and black paint, an A3 canvas, some orange tissue paper, some paper glue and super glue. We also grabbed some glitter card.

When we got home we sat down and made a tick list of things we needed to find to make our 3D scene. Then we headed out to the local park to find them. I needed everyone to find 2 same sized pebbles, some bark from a tree, some leaves, twigs and a larger for the centre pole of the bonfire we was making.

The first thing we needed to do was paint the canvas brown and black to create a mud look. Then I put this to the side to dry.

While this was drying I got Lily and her friends to cut strips out of the glittered card of all different shapes and sizes. Lily is getting really good with cutting now and so did really well with this. I needed her to cut some little squares and this is where I helped.

We then glued the strips to the squares with the square at the end to make them look like fireworks. 

We needed to leave these to dry so the next thing we did was superglue the pebbles to the bark which is going to be our firework display table. I had to help with this part.

The next part was creating the bonfire. I started this by supergluing the centre pole to the canvas. Then the kids passed me their choice of twigs which we glued to the centre pole and canvas to create the classic bonfire shape. Once there was enough twigs added we then glued the tissue paper inside the bonfire to create a flame effect. 

The next job was to glue the firework table to the canvas, this is another part that I had to do myself. Then the kids glued the fireworks onto the table to create the firework display.

We then put this to the side to set, and while it was the kids all set to chopping the leaves up into little pieces to create mini leaves. 

When everything on the canvas was dried the kids applied paper glue to the canvas and stuck down the mini leaves to give an autumn feel to the floor.

The last finishing touch was to add one last firework. I made the shape of this last one by cutting out a star, and then attached the strips to it. To make this stick up in the air I used a pipe cleaner that I had in Lily's art and crafts box. 

The scene looked brilliant when it was finished and is now great to display for Bonfire Night. 

Lily and her friends loved how their bonfire scene looked when it was finished and they really enjoyed doing this activity.

Would your children enjoy this activity?