Kate Williams

Fireworks are fantastic to write about at pretty well any time of the year, and in any weather. Just switch the imagination button if necessary. But in the depths of a dark, frosty British November, any firework poem is sure to be inspired!

Celebrate creatively! Children love to be fireworks, shooting, spinning, exploding, and to think up thrilling sound, colour and action words for them, then to capture their imagined scene in poems and illustrations. Even if the sun’s pouring in – or the rain pouring down, they’ll love to describe the deep, mysterious night sky and the fascinating ways those fireworks travel and fade through it.

Virtually – Fireworks is one of the topics I offer with my Virtual Poetry Workshops. I also supply exciting poetry-writing frames with bookings. They’re available here too, for all primary levels.

Simile fun – along with the infinite range of adjectives, verbs and onomatopoeia applicable to fireworks, there are boundless possibilities for imagery. They might be firing like comets or dragon’s breath, for instance; speeding like rockets, speedboats, shooting stars; glowing like flowers, twisting like roller-coasters, whirling like Spanish dancers, winking like mysterious signals, crackling like frying bacon…

Fireworks poetry frames – all levels – here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/katewilliams_poetry

Kate
Email: katewilliams.poetry@gmail.com

And for the teachers, mums, dads, big kids – some silly Coronavirus-era firework night rhymes here.

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