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).

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We don’t really have any travel to speak of planned this summer, and my daughter is old enough that any lengthy time in the car is usually spent with an audiobook or watching videos. But I remember the struggle of keeping little kids entertained on long trips, especially if you don’t want them on a screen the whole time.

I recently saw this post from Creating Really Awesome Fun Things, which is a roundup of 26 road trip games, ideas and activities that kids can do. From stringing beads onto pipe cleaners to felt busy boards, travel journals and using a pizza box to contain colors, trains (or cars) and more, there are lots of fun and easy ideas here.

I’m a big fan of printable road trip activities, and even have a whole post all about printables for road trips. I used to always do some kind of license plate game, a map, mazes and I-spy style scavenger hunts, which are fun for everyone in the car to play along with. (You can also find some patriotic road trip mazes here.) If your road trip includes a camping trip, check out these camping themed printable games and activities.

Productive Pete has a super cute map of the United States (pictured above) that kids can use in lots of different ways while on the road. They can color the states you travel through, or all the states they’ve ever visited, or use it to give the license plate game an extra challenge as they try to find each state on the map. You can quiz older kids on the state capitols, which you might need to brush up on yourself (guilty!).

Do you have particular games or activities that you always have on hand when you are doing a road trip with kids? I would love to hear about them!

[Photo: Productive Pete.]

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