Fireworks!

I pick and choose only certain important holidays to "celebrate" in primary and the 4th of July is one of them, and this was such a great way to do it!

Got the idea here, and modified it of course:

First, I filled some big red, white and blue balloons with some confetti using a funnel, and I also put a small piece of paper with a song in as well.  You don't need a ton of confetti for this to work great.

I then blew them up and attached them to a bulletin board, along with some streamers coming down so they looked like fireworks.  Now, the question was, how to pop them in a fun way.  As always, I raided my mom's supplies and came up with a couple old, wooden cork/pop guns.  I hot glued a push pin to the end of the cork (making sure I could remove it later and not ruin her toy) and practiced "shooting" a balloon.  It worked great.

So, in primary I was obviously careful to keep the "gun" to myself until they were ready to shoot off their fireworks.  One kid came up and they would shoot the gun at one of the firework balloons, which would then pop and send the confetti flying!  So much fun, it really surprised the kids the first time and they loved the excitement!  Like I said, you don't need much confetti because it flies everywhere and I was smart enough to think of putting down a big sheet so it was mostly contained.  I then had another kid come up and they had to search through the confetti to find the paper with the song on it.  It was a BLAST!!