Flag Day Crafts and Activities for Kids

It’s kind of weird to people outside of the United States (and maybe within them, too) that the USA has a special holiday dedicated to its flag.

Flag Day is a federal holiday in the United States, celebrated on June 14, that commemorates the adoption of the flag of the United States on June 14, 1777, by resolution of the Second Continental Congress.

The first Flag Day celebration was held on June 14, 1877, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The event was organized by the Pennsylvania Society of the Sons of the Revolution and was attended by over 10,000 people. In 1916, President Woodrow Wilson issued a proclamation declaring June 14 as Flag Day. In 1949, Congress passed a joint resolution making Flag Day a federal holiday. (Want to know more about the history of the flag and other flag facts? Check out this post from PBS.)

Flag Day is a fun reason to bring out some flag crafts, which you can use to decorate for the Fourth of July or any other occasion through the summer.

Preschoolers (or older kids!) can use pattern blocks as stamps to paint a flag with this crafty idea from The Preschool Toolbox Blog.

Or try building a flag with Legos! Little Bins for Little Hands will show you how.

This flag mosaic from What We Can Do with Paper and Glue would be a great project for a class full of kids to work on around Flag Day, both prepping the materials and making the mosaic itself.

Crafty Moms Share has a roundup of Flag Day related books and activities if you want to read more about the history of the flag or the pledge. There’s a link in there for a template to make a flag using paper or felt, which you can then use to arrange the stars in different ways to show how the flag has changed through the years (the Smithsonian has a good rundown of all the variations).