Bonfire Night for kids: Watch CBeebies explain the holiday and the fireworks

CBEEBIES: Enjoy Bonfire Night with Bing and friends. Picture credit: CBeebies
CBEEBIES: Enjoy Bonfire Night with Bing and friends. Picture credit: CBeebies
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If you're looking for a gentle way to explain Bonfire Night to your children, CBeebies has got it covered with a host of favourite characters.

You would have been up early this morning to catch Bing on TV at 6.10am talking all about “super loud banging rockets” and how the loud bangs can be a little bit scary.

In case you missed it, you can catch up with it via BBC iPlayer.

Here’s a taste of what to expect:

Why do we have Bonfire Night?

You can also catch up with Kerry on CBeebies Radio podcast where Saffron talks about "My CBeebies Special Day – Fireworks Night".

She talks about her favourite fireworks and why Bonfire Night exists, visits a fire station and holds a sparkler before heading out to a firework display.

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If you’d like an earworm for the rest of the day, you can also learn the Fireworks Song with Chris.

Finally, after a banging day, get little ones tucked into bed and turn to CBeebies Bedtime Stories, this evening presented by global pop star Ed Sheeran.

Ed will be reading I Talk Like a River by Jordan Scott and Sydney Smith, a moving story of a boy with a stutter – a topic close to the singer’s heart as he also lived with a stutter as a child.

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