Safe Sparklers
By: Amanda Formaro
Difficulty: Easy
Age: 5 and up
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Your child will love making these shiny sparklers. The best part: they won’t burn little hands and will never go out!
What you'll need:
- 12” wooden dowel
- White acrylic craft paint
- Gold glitter glue or paint
- 2 gold chenille stems
- Gold foil-type garland
- Scissors
- White craft glue
How to make it:
- Paint the dowel with white paint and let dry.
- When paint is dry, add a coat of gold glitter glue or paint. Let dry.
- Cut garland into six inch pieces. Gather all the pieces of garland together like a bouquet, with the wooden dowel at the center. Use both hands. (You may have to help your kids with this part.)
- Wrap a chenille stem around the “bouquet” to secure it. Then add a few dabs of glue to help keep it in place.
- Continue wrapping chenille stem tightly around the garland and the dowel. Repeat with second chenille stem.
- Put a few dabs of glue in between crevices of the chenille stems to help secure them. Allow the glue to dry.
- Position the garland pieces so that it looks like a sparkler.
Tips:
- Check your local craft supply store and discount department store for garland. If you can’t find it, shiny foil wrapping paper works well also. Just fringe it with scissors.
- Garlands come in other colors as well. Make one with red, white and blue garland for a patriotic effect!
- Buy large packages of chenille stems in variety packs to save money.
