Lesson video

Hello everyone.

And welcome back to another lesson with me, Ms. Sidenius.

Today, I'm really excited because I'm going to be taking you back in time to talk about a celebration called bonfire night or fireworks night.

You might have heard of fireworks night or bonfire night before, but I wonder if you know why people celebrate bonfire night, let's find out a bit more.

So we're going to start today's lesson by learning about the bonfire night story.

Then we're going to look at how people celebrate bonfire night.

And finally, we're going to create a bonfire collage and we're going to share that collage with somebody in our household, a Teddy or toy.

In this lesson, you're going to need four things, some paper, some glue or some tape, some sticks, and some scissors.

Pause the video here.

Make sure that you've got those four things and come back when you're ready.

So let me tell you the story of bonfire night.

A long, long, long, long, long time ago, way before you were even born.

There was a King called King James the First, Now, there were some people who didn't like the King and some of these people led by a man called Guy Fawkes, thought up a dangerous plan against the King.

What do you think they tried to do? Guy Fawkes and his group decided that they were going to blow up the houses of parliament by putting gunpowder in the cellars.

They wanted the houses of parliament to explode so that everyone inside would be killed along with the King.

But on the day that it was supposed to happen, the King's men found Guy Fawkes and they put him in prison.

So it didn't go ahead.

King James was so happy that he had survived this treacherous plan, that he decided every year on the 5th of November, we should celebrate bonfire night.

That's why people celebrate bonfire night or fireworks night today.

There's even a rhyme that people say to help remember what happened and Guy Fawkes' plot to explode the houses of parliament and the King.

It goes like this, are you ready? My turn.

Remember, remember the 5th of November.

Remember, remember the 5th of November.

And then there's a second nine, listen carefully.

Remember, remember the 5th of November gunpowder treason and plot.

Let's try that one more time.

Remember, remember the 5th of November gunpowder treason and plot.

Well done.

I hope that helps you to remember when bonfire night is.

That's right, that's right, it's on the 5th of November.

So, now that we know the story, let's see if we can find out a little bit more about how people celebrate bonfire night.

You might have been to a bonfire celebration yourself.

What did you notice? What can you see on the screen? Tell your screen.

That's right.

At bonfire nights or fireworks night, there's often a really big bonfire with flames that go very high into the sky.

You have to be very careful when you're around them.

Why do you think people have a bonfire on bonfire night? That's right, It's to remember how Guy Fawkes tried to blow up the houses of parliament.

So the fire is a bit like what the explosion would have been like that night.

What else do people do to celebrate bonfire night? Tell your screen.

That's right.

People sets off fireworks into the sky because they look like and they sound like explosions, as well.

And people hold little sticks with fire on the end called sparklers.

They're very pretty, but we have to be very careful with sparklers and always have an adult near us when we're holding them.

Sparklers look a bit like an explosion, as well.

That's why people carry sparklers on bonfire night.

People also like to have nice food, like hot chocolate and toffee apples on bonfire night.

Or toasted marshmallows because it's in November.

So it's quite cold.

Now this is where we're going to use your sticks and your paper and your leaves.

We're going to create a bonfire collage.

So we're going to see if we can make something that looks like a bonfire.

I put my sticks at the bottom here, all in a pile as if they were logs going on to a bonfire.

And I've got some tape to stick down my sticks.

I just found these sticks on the floor in my garden.

So go and have have a look if you can find any on the pavement or outside, just lying around on the floor.

There's lots of them.

I'm going to put a few more on because I think we need some more logs on the bonfire.

Put some tape on top of those.

And there we go.

I've got the log parts of my bonfire.

Just like if it was a real bonfire burning, it would have wood at the bottom, as well.

Pause the video here.

Make your sticks look like bonfire logs and come back when you're ready.

Amazing.

Well done.

Now it's time to create some flames.

Now while I was outside, I actually found some old leaves that I thought might work as some flames.

So I'm going to stick down this leaf here.

Can you see, it's kind of like the shape of fire.

I'm using glue to stick my leaves down now.

Press it down onto the paper.

That's it.

Now I'm going to draw some flames to stick on my bonfire.

I've got some yellow paper.

If you don't have coloured paper, it doesn't matter.

You can just colour in some paper and use that.

I've got my yellow flames and I'm going to cut them out.

Being really careful to keep my hands away from the scissors.

You can see I'm turning the paper around so that the scissors don't go anywhere near my hands.

That's it.

And I've got my first one.

So I'm going to cut the rest out and then I'm going to stick them on.

Pause the video here, create your flames and come back when you're ready.

So I've got brown flames, I've got yellow flames, and now I'm going to make some red ones, as well.

So I'm going to, I didn't have any red paper.

So I'm just using a red pen.

I'm going to colour it in to make it look like fire.

And I think I did three yellow ones and I had two brown ones.

So I'll try and do three red flames, as well.

The red ones are what make the fire look really hot, like a real bonfire.

So I've got my second one.

Make sure you colour it in.

Doesn't have to be really neat because flames dance about when they change and they move around.

So it doesn't matter if you're colouring in, isn't perfect in the lines.

It will just make it look like a real fire.

Look, there we go.

That's a proper flame.

It's got some shorter parts and one longer part sticking out of the top.

You want to colour all of that one in, and then I'm going to cut them out.

Look, so I've done the first two already, now I'm going to cut out my last red flame.

Again, It doesn't really matter if it doesn't cut out super neat because flames and fires, they don't look super neat.

And you can always just colour in anything that you missed afterwards.

So I've almost cut it out.

There we go.

I'm finished with my red flames.

Pause the video here, draw your red flames and cut them out and come back when you're finished.

Great job, everyone.

I'm going to start by sticking my red flames on, I think.

So I'm putting some glue on there.

I'm going to stick it down.

And now I've got a yellow one.

So it might make a bit of a pattern maybe.

And I'm going to stick my yellow one there.

And I've got another tall, yellow flame here.

One last yellow one.

I think I'm even tucking it in behind the red one.

So you can see the different colours together.

I've got two last flames to put on.

One, two.

And you can see, it looks like a real bonfire.

Pause the video here.

Stick all of your flames on to finish your bonfire and come back when you're finished.

So now that you've finished your amazing bonfire night collage, I want you to have a look at it and have a think.

How do people celebrate bonfire nights in Britain? Remember the story that you heard at the beginning? And we talked about how people celebrate bonfire night.

Can you remember some of the ways, tell your screen.

That's right.

People celebrate bonfire by having really big bonfires, setting off fireworks and holding sparklers.

That all look like an explosion is going off.

Because Guy Fawkes tried to blow up the houses of parliament and King James, all of those years ago, a long, long time ago.

Great job, everyone.

I hope you enjoyed learning a bit more about how people celebrate bonfire night today.

Make sure that you go and show somebody in your household, your Teddy or your toy, your lovely collage that you made today.

I think they would really like to see it.

You can even ask them, do you know about bonfire nights? And you could tell them the story that we heard earlier.

Have a great rest of your day.

Bye.