It is predicted that this year 500 children and their families will join the growing number of people who will remember bonfire night for the wrong reasons. They will have been injured as a result of an accident with fireworks.
Sparklers are often seen as a relatively harmless way of allowing very young children to participate in the thrill of fireworks night - THIS IS NOT TRUE - a sparkler can reach temperatures of 20 times the boiling point of water.
Never give sparklers to children under the age of five - why not play the virtual sparkler game instead?. Make sure that older children wear gloves, hold the sparkler at arms length and ALWAYS have a bucket of water nearby to put the used sparklers in - hot end down.
For more information, safety tips and games go to the CAPT Firework Safety page or the DirectGov fireworks safety page.
