Red, White & Blue Straw Painted Fireworks Wreath

The Red, White & Blue Straw Painted Fireworks Wreath is a great Fourth of July craft. This is loads of fun for kids to make.

And is a simple craft that changes up painting for kids. And it is fun to display during the holiday season.

This is a great firework craft for kids in preschool, prek, and kindergarten. But older kids can do this as well.

Red, White & Blue Straw Painted Fireworks Wreath - a fun firework themed wreath for the Fourth of July with red, white, and blue colors. A simple painting craft you can do with kids. - 3Dinosaurs.com

The Red, White & Blue Straw Painted Fireworks Wreath is a great addition to the Fourth of July Crafts and the wreath crafts on the site.

What is a Wreath Craft

A wreath is a collection of items around a circle. It can be used as a seasonal decoration around a house.

Red, White & Blue Straw Painted Fireworks Wreath Craft

The Red, White & Blue Straw Painted Fireworks Wreath Craft is a painted wreath that uses dot markers and red, white, and blue paints to make the painted paper plate wreath.

Book to Read about Fireworks

A fun book to read about fireworks is The Explosive Story of Fireworks. You can learn about the history of fireworks.

Talk to Kids about the Meaning of the Color Red White and Blue

You can also talk to kids about the colors and about how they are the same colors as the flag. And that each color means something.

Red represents hardiness and valor
White represents purity and innocence
Blue represents perseverance and justice

What we used to make the Red, White & Blue Straw Painted Fireworks Wreath Craft

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How we made the Red, White & Blue Straw Painted Fireworks Wreath Craft

You can see the steps below that we used to make the Red, White & Blue Straw Painted Fireworks wreath craft.

Step 1: Dot Marker the Wreath

You are going to use a graphite dot marker to make the dot maker a black color with a little shimmer to the color.

You can use the inside of the paper plate you cut out as a protector of the table. You can see the set up for that below. If this wont work for the age of the kids you are doing the firework craft with then change it to a larger paper or art tray.

You can see how we use the paper plate center under where we are dot painting the paper plate. Remember do what is best for the kids making this firework craft.

Step 2: Put the Straw in the Paint on Paper Plate

You are going to put the straws in the paint. we use one straw for each color of paint. And when we cut the straw we did not cut them deep to make sure they would fit on the size of the paper plate wreath.

Step 3: Paint with Straw and Paints

You can see we started with one color of paint and went around the paper plate. This is just a suggestion to do one color at a time.

You can let kids paint as much as they want around the wreath and in any way they want.

Step 4: Repeat Step 3 with Different Colors

You can see after we did one color we started on the next color. You can see how fun it is to see the firework appear on the wreath.

And remember let kids be creative with this painting. They have more ideas or thoughts to make this their own painting.

You can see that we use all three colors and that the colors can overlap and you can paint as much as kids want around the wreath. And if kids want to do the same color a few times let them do that. It makes for a fun painting.

Final look at our Red, White & Blue Straw Painted Fireworks Wreath Craft

More Fireworks Activities for Kids

Torn Paper Fireworks Craft is a great fine motor craft you can make at home for kids who might not like fireworks.

Firework Activity Pack has prewriting, numbers, shapes, and abcs for kids. The firework pack is great for preschool, prek and kindergarten age kids. You have clip cards, tracing strips, easy reader books and no-prep worksheets. All with a fun general firework theme.

Firework Pastel Craft is a making fireworks with chalk pastels. And it is loads of fun. Plus suggestions on how to make the craft and set up the area to do the craft.

Firework Shape Tracing Printables has 9 shapes for kids to trace with a firework theme. This is great for prek, preschool and kindergarten age kids for the Fourth of July

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

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.

Check out all the fun 4th Of July And American Revolution Activities & Printables on 3 Dinosaurs.