Fireworks
Safety Tips
- Fireworks
are not toys.

- Always
leave fireworks to trained professionals. That means sparklers too, which
can reach over 1000 degrees Fahrenheit. (Wow, that's hot!)
- Attend
only public fireworks displays put on by trained professionals and stay
back at least 500 feet from the display. (Besides being the safer way
to see fireworks, public fireworks displays are more spectacular than
anything you'll see at home.)
- If
you or your friends find fireworks, don't pick them up; tell a grown-up
right away.


Can't get to the fireworks?
These cool July 4th bags light up your front yard. You can also use them to decorate your yard for the 4th of July cook-out.
What you need:
Scissors
Tissue paper, red and blue
Brown-paper lunch bags
Star-shaped stickers
Sand
Glow stick (you can find these at party stores)
What to do:
1. Draw stars on your red
and blue tissue paper. Cut out stars. Ask a grown-up to help with the scissors.
2. Glue the stars to the
lunch bags. You can also add other star-shaped stickers on the
inside.
3. Fill each bag with 2
to 3 inches of sand and stick a glow stick into the sand. Place the bags
in the front yard or on your deck or anywhere you want to light up the night..

Virtual Fireworks:
Ever want to make your own virtual fireworks display? Here is your chance -- click
here.
July
4th Shaker
Shake things up with your very own Fourth of July Shaker.
What
you need: paper towel tube or Pringles© can, two 1 1/2 inch-wide
cardboard circles, small rocks or pebbles, ribbon (red,
white or blue),
crayons, markers, tape, scissors
What to do:
- Fill the paper towel tube
with your rocks. (If you are using a Pringles can just put the lid on and cover
the tube with a clean piece of paper and you are ready to go.)
- Then seal the tube by
taping the cardboard circles to the ends.
- Decorate the tube with
markers or crayons (remember it is the 4th of July so make it patriotic).
- Attach ribbons to each
side of the tube with tape.
Mini
Idea:
To make a MINI July
4th shaker, use an empty film canister
instead of a Pringles can.
" Sparky's
Sparkling Sparkler"
What
you need: pipe cleaners (red, white, and blue, of course), glue, glitter,
and scissors
What to do:
- Cut two of the pipe cleaners
into four pieces.
- Roll the eight pipe cleaner
pieces in glue and cover them with glitter. When the glue is dry, glue the glitter-covered
pieces onto the third, whole pipe cleaner.
- Let the sparkling sparkler
dry.
- Make a bang at all your
Fourth of July activities with your great, and safe, Sparky Sparkling Sparkler.
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