Bonfire Night Festivity

BONFIRE NIGHT

Bonfire Night is a traditional festivity that involves bonfires and fireworks. In the United Kingdom it is on November 5th, Guy Fawkes Day, to commemorate the failure of the Gunpowder Plot on November 5th in 1605, when one of the plotters, Guy Fawkes, was caught guarding gunpowder to blow up the the Houses of Parliament.

Primary 4 Bonfire Night Festivity

TRADITIONAL BONFIRE NIGHT RHYME

Primary 4 children know this famous 17th Century rhyme about Bonfire Night or Guy Fawkes Day and the Gunpowder plot:

Traditional Guy Fawkes Mask

Remember, remember, the Fifth of November

Gunpowder, treason and plot

I see no reason why gunpowder treason

Should ever be forgot

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