If you have kids in your house, you know they think fireworks are the best part of the Fourth of July.

If they’re bummed out because the fireworks are finished, or if you had rain in your area that put them off until tomorrow, gather the kids and show them this page:

http://www.fireworkspop.com/liberty/

Courtesy of regular reader Don S., it’s interactive animation that allows your kids (or you, if they’re not around and no one is looking) to create their own fireworks shows.

As a bonus, while they’re playing, you can take the opportunity to tell them all about the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island (click here for the Park Service’s web site, here for the Ellis Island Immigration Foundation, where you can read stories about the immigrants who came to America via Lady Liberty’s front door).

Cool, huh?