Flag Day Crafts and Activities for Kids

May 18, 2023 by Sarah White Leave a Comment

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).

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Fun Halloween Worksheets for Kids

After sharing some witch themed math activities, I found a bunch more fun printable worksheets with a Halloween theme for kids to try, so let’s take a look at some more low-prep Halloween learning fun.

Give kids practice measuring bats, spiders, ghosts and more with these printables from What I Have Learned Teaching. Kids can use a ruler, unit cubes or even little Halloween themed erasers to measure and track the size of the images.

Practice symmetry by drawing half a haunted house, ghost, skull or other simple images with this activity from Printables Hub.

I always love a good roll and draw activity, too, so check out this roll and draw a ghost activity (which has printable instructions) from Finding Myself Young.

Missy Printable Design has a cute set of Halloween worksheets for preschool, including tracing the letter H and a haunted house, spider counting, number tracing, sequencing, coloring pages and more.

The Halloween themed printables from The Artisan Life are meant to be playdough mats, and you can definitely use them for that to make the shape and trace the letters. But you could also use pipe cleaners or Wikki Stix, or line up buttons or anything else on them.

Older kids will enjoy this witch’s brew logic puzzle from Education.com. The witch has made different potions with different colors that do different things, and using the clues you can figure out which one is which. (Don’t worry; there’s an answer key included if you can’t figure it out on your own!)

Another fun puzzle is this decoder activity from Crafting Cheerfully. The holiday icons each represent a letter, and kids can use the decoder to answer the riddle. This isn’t a free resource (and the link in the post is broken but you can find it here) but it includes 20 riddles and an editable file so you can make up your own codes to decipher.

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