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4 Patriotic Kids’ Crafts For Independence Day

June 27, 2011 by Susie Chadwick 7 Comments

4th of July Crafts

It’s almost Independence Day! We’ve been celebrating by doing a few crafts centering on the American flag and the colors red, white, and blue.  These 4th of July crafts are all easy enough for young children, and fun for older ones.

The very first thing we did was an American flag coloring page.  Since we don’t live in America, I had to introduce this to Maggie.  Unfortunately, the phone rang as I was getting it set up, and she started coloring her stars yellow.  She got upset when I showed her a picture of the flag.  Luckily, I printed two copies.

4th of July Craft: Red White & Blue Flag

Once she was familiar with the look of the American Flag, we did a torn paper collage of the flag.

4th of July Craft: Red White & Blue Torn Paper Flag

4th of July Craft #1: Torn Paper Flag Collage

  • blue and red construction paper
  • glue stick
  • white paper

Tear the construction paper into little pieces and glue them into a resemblance of the American flag with a glue stick.  You can see our final torn paper collage at the top of this post.  Just be sure not to count our stripes!

4th of July Craft: Red White & Blue Twirlers

4th of July Craft #2: Red, White & Blue Twirlers

  • red, white and blue crepe paper (streamers)
  • paper towel tube
  • stapler

Cut long strips of crepe paper.  Crepe paper comes in sheets in India, so I cut my strips thin.  I did two strips of each color, about 1/2 inch by 3 feet.  Staple the strips to the top of a paper towel tube and let your kids dance around with it!

I don’t actually have a paper towel tube, or a stapler, so I taped our crepe paper strips onto our xylophone mallets.  It worked great.  The kids LOVED this activity and have been playing with their 4th of July Twirlers for days.

4th of July Craft: Red White & Blue Twirlers4th of July Craft: Red White & Blue Twirlers

4th of July Craft: Star Prints

4th of July Craft #3: Star Printing

  • star cookie cutters
  • paint
  • paper
  • paper plate

Pour paint in your desired colors (we used red and blue of course!) onto paper plates.  Dip the cookie cutters into the paint and stamp them onto the paper.

I got the idea for the star printing from No Time for Flash Cards.  While we had the paint out, we went ahead and tried making fireworks using a drinking straw!

4th of July Craft: Paint Fireworks4th of July Craft #4: Drinking Straw Fireworks Painting Craft

  • watered down paint
  • drinking straw
  • paper
  • paint brush

Use the paint brush to drip large drops of watered down paint on your paper.  Blow through the straw to spread the paint drops into fireworks!  Watered down paint will spread fast and more easily.

Also see our Stars & Stripes Muffin Tin Meal and these free patriotic songs for kids.

Shared at For the Kids Friday and It’s Playtime!

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Filed Under: Parenting, Special Occasions Tagged With: Independence Day, kids, activities, fun, july 4th, america, crafts




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Comments

  1. Jackie says

    June 30, 2011 at 8:55 pm

    Your wall looks so festive! Love the streamers.

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  2. Rachel Harwood says

    July 1, 2011 at 10:00 am

    Awesome ideas! Thanks for sharing at For the Kids Friday!!! I’ve just passed this post onto my Facebook friends. 🙂

    Reply
  3. Jamie @ hands on : as we grow says

    July 5, 2011 at 8:52 am

    I LOVE those straw paintings! What a great idea for fireworks! We did some streamers for the 4th too. They were fun for Henry to play with and twirl around!

    Reply
  4. tiffany feger says

    July 2, 2012 at 1:29 pm

    we did the straw painting today, thank you for the idea via pinterest!

    Reply
  5. Kirstylee says

    May 29, 2013 at 1:22 pm

    I love those red, white, and blue streamers you made with your kids. I definitely plan to do that with my kids on the 4th of July. They will be perfect to play with during a parade! I also love all of those flag activities. 🙂

    Reply
  6. Renae says

    July 1, 2013 at 12:47 am

    My son would LOVe the blowing from the straw fire works! I’m so going to have to let him do that this week! Thanks so much for sharing!

    Reply

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