We made fireworks!

First I want to wish everyone a very happy 4th of July!

Second, I want to make sure everyone knows we didn't make real fireworks(in case you were worried!).  I had been receiving a Better Homes and Garden email weekly for several weeks now but never opened it.  The other day I opened it and spent about an hour looking through all the stuff they sent me... recipes, crafts, decor ideas- it was really cool!  So here's the fireworks!

You need:

pipe cleaners, cut in half

glue

glitter

Dip the ends of the pipe cleaners in glue and then dip(or stir) them in glitter.

 Yes, you can also glue and glitter your belly if you want! :)

One of the finished pipe cleaners...

Oh, you can glue and glitter your hands too!

Here are all the pipe cleaners glittered...

Next you will twist the pipe cleaners together and spread apart to make a "firework."  I suggest you do this not in front of your children and over paper because not all the glitter stays on the pipe cleaner.  I'm still finding glitter and we did this craft last week!  Don't you love glitter, it's the gift that keeps on giving!

Another suggestion, if I may...  hang your "fireworks" somewhere where you don't mind if there's a little glitter.  We hung ours from the window frame of our big picture window.  Also, warn whomever else in the house if you hang them somewhere behind a curtain.  All I will say is they kind of look like spiders when you pull curtains back and they swing in front of your husband who didn't remember that they are there. :)