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4th of July Craft- Flag Mobile
American Flag Craft for Kids
Using a few simple craft materials you can create an American flag craft mobile that can twist in the breeze or decorate your child’s room. It is super easy! We made this mobile two years ago for a guest post on the blog Not Just Cute. I thought you would love to see it!
A flag mobile like this one would be great to hang up on Flag Day, Memorial Day, Veterans Day or the 4th of July. We have had it hung up in a tree in our yard on bright sunny days lately, but we take it in a night. It isn’t weather safe. It has spent the most time in JDaniel’s room hanging from one of the arms of his ceiling fan.
How To Make Our American Flag Craft for Kids
The first thing you have to do it so gather your supplies.
We used:
Cardboard box ( Colored poster board could be used instead)
Paint (Red, white and blue)
White construction paper
Fishing line
Plastic hanger (red)
Scissors
X -Acto knife
Directions for creating the mobile:
Trace the outline of a flag and mark off six stripes of equal length.
Draw wavy lines to separate each of the stripes.
If you are using poster board for your stripes, cut out the stripes with scissors. If you are using cardboard, cut out the stripes with an X-Acto knife.
Cut a four inch length from three of your stripes. The short stripes with be the blue area of the flag.
Now it is kid’s time! Have the kids color the three short stripe sections blue. Two of the long stripes and one of the shorter stripes will need to be painted white. Two of the shorter stripes and two of the long stripes will be painted red.
While the paint is drying, cut stars out of the white construction paper. We have nine stars on our flag.
When the paint is dry, glue the stars onto the short blue stripes.
Thread a needle with fishing line.
Use the fishing line to connect each of the small blue stripes to one of the medium sized or shorter stripes. Then connect the blue stripes to the red hanger with fishing line.
Next use fishing line to connect the longer stripes to the coat hanger.
Make sure the stripes will have enough room to spin.
Hang your mobile up and watch it spin.
I hope you like our tribute Old Glory!
Other Patriotic Crafts for Kids
If you are looking for patriotic crafts and fun, you may want to check out my Summer Crafts and Fun Pinterest board .
Follow JDaniel4’s Mom’s board Summer Crafts and Fun on Pinterest.
Here are some other patriotic crafts I have shared here on my blog:
Crafts for Kids: Painted American Flag
Bald Eagle Craft and Science Experiment
Crafts for Kids- Painted American Flag
There are so many patriotic holidays coming up this summer. I thought it would be a good time to share some crafts for kids that feature the American flag. We have done several here on this blog and a few as guest posts for other blogs.
Before I share some of my previous American flag ideas, let me share one that we just did at our house. We are calling it the Painted American Flag.
We started by painting streaky white stripes onto a red piece of paper with a bristle brush. I confess that I had to look up a picture of American flag online to make sure that we painted the stripes in the right order. I honestly couldn’t remember the order of the red and white stripes.
Then we cut out rectangles blue construction paper for the field of blue. I didn’t need to look up where to put the blue field on our crafts for kids.With the blue field glue onto our painted stripes we were ready to move onto the stars.
Painting stars that look like stars would have been really tricky for both of us. I wanted our stars to look stars. We used a small star cookie cutter as a stencil for our stars. We moved to smaller paint brush to insure that we would be able to get into the tight corners of the cookie cutter.
It would not of have been possible to put all fifty stars on to the blue paper. We ended up with a much smaller number of stars on our flags, but I think you can still easily see that our crafts for kids are American flags.
Here are some other crafts for kids that we have made with an American flag or patriotic color theme:
10 Fourth of July Books for Kids
Children can learn more about the symbols associated with the 4th of July and ways families celebrate the 4th with this wonderful collection of books. When you have finished reading them you might enjoy, creating a creating a threaded necklace, patriotic confetti eggs, or a cardboard tube flag.
4th of July Books for Kids
One Nation Under God: A Book for Little Patriotstalks about our country and government in a way young readers will understand.
Sweet Land of Liberty (1) (Ellis the Elephant)> is wonderful book about an Elephant who wants to learn about America’s history while on a visit to the library.
Story Of Americas Birthday is a simple board book talks about America is simple words and pictures.
The Story of the Statue of Liberty (Rise and Shine)is a simple board book by the same author as The Story of America’s Birthday. It highlights the beginning of the song the Star Spangled Banner and about our flag.
The Pledge of Allegiance has been in my book collection since I was a classroom teacher. The book shared the song The Pledge of Allegiance and has beautiful photos from around the United States that illustrate various parts of the song.
Our American Flag (American Symbols) shares the various versions of our flag from its first design to our present design.
O, Say Can You See? America’s Symbols, Landmarks, and Important Words shares many of the symbols and landmarks that the United States are known for.
Fourth of July Mice! (Green Light Readers Level 1) is the story of a mouse family had how they celebrate the traditions associated with the 4th of July.
Our American Flag (American Symbols) is the tale of what a little girl sees as she rides her bike around town during the 4th of July.
Grandma Drove the Garbage Truck explains how while trying to pick up a garbage in a truck she has never driven before Grandma ends up in the 4th of July parade.
Many of these books discuss 4th of July traditions or American landmarks. I think the 4th of July is a great time to share with your children the traditions and heritage tied to this wonderful holiday.
If I left your favorite 4th of July book of the list, please leave me a comment sharing it with me.
Olympics for Kids- Edible British Flag
After sharing four Olympic-related meals and snacks, I thought JDaniel and I would build the Union Jack fruit creation this week.
The Union Jack or British Flag was easy to draw on a tortilla using a food marker. I wasn’t sure how they would do. This is really the first project I have really used them on.
Blueberries and strawberries have been in our fridge all summer. They are both favorites! Their blue and red colors made them the perfect choices to decorate the flag.
The flag turned out well in my opinion! I just love that the flag is filled will wonderful fruit. I am always looking for fun ways to incorporate fruit into meals and snacks. ( I bet you are doing the same thing at your house with your children.)
As predicted, JDaniel loved the fruits! He did surprise me by saying the tortilla had to be saved for later. It was too much! The flag tortilla disappeared at breakfast the next morning.
Last week I shared an Edible Olympic Torch on the Kid’s Activities Blog. I thought you might enjoy seeing a glimpse of it here. If you would like more information about it, please head over to the Kid’s Activities Blog.
Here are some more wonderful food creations I think your kids will love:
Star Wars Food Creations for Kids
Fun Foods – Cookie Cutter Food Creations with Watermelon
Kid Friendly Recipes- Teepee Snack
This post is linked to Muffin Tin Monday and a few other places.
