It’s Bonfire Night in the UK next week which means… fireworks! These firework crafts are cookies are great whether you’re celebrating 5th November or planning ahead for Diwali, New Year or 4th July. All the ideas are child-friendly – no noisy bangs, but some yummy edible fireworks and gorgeous craft ideas.
Firework crafts and cookies
We started our firework cookies by making a batch of our favourite gingerbread recipe. The recipe is a great one for kids as it’s easy to make and the dough can cope with lots of handling. The ginger is a nice warming spice to eat when you’re out in the dark watching fireworks.
Then we mixed up a palette of icing paints – just sifted icing sugar mixed with a little water, with food colouring added.
Time to paint. On some cookies we placed a blob of icing in the middle and used a spoon to blast outwards to make a firework shape (accompanying sound effects recommended!)
On others we dribbled lines of icing to make our design.
On all, we sprinkled lots of hundreds and thousands for extra firework shimmer.
The girls loved it. Every cookie looked gorgeous and each was different.
Whizz, pop, bang! Gorgeous firework cookies!
More firework crafts and Bonfire Night ideas
Add some art to your celebrations with this idea for firework pictures.
Make your own whizzing Catherine wheel craft.
Or try this idea for edible sparklers.
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love the cookies, i have a stupid amount of edible glitter – its one of those things i can’t walk past in a shop without buying. So i may have to make a batch of these.
Ooh, they’re be so pretty The Monko! Let me see a picture if you make some.
Very cute! Love them!
Thanks mermaid!
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What a pretty cookie! These look like fun to make!