Invite children to paint a paper towel tube with yellow tempera paint. Once dry, encourage children to paint the tube with gold glitter paint. Set aside to dry.
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Next, help children tape different colored pipe stems to the inside of one end of the paper towel tube.
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Decorate the outside of the tube with wiggly eyes, and glue on a glitter pom-pom for the nose. Now kids are ready to celebrate Independence Day with their own Fourth of July firecracker!