Fourth of July Crafts and Projects

June 10, 2024 by Sarah White Leave a Comment

Fourth of July and other patriotic holidays are lots of fun to make crafts for, and pretty easy to plan for since anything red, white and blue looks like it’s made for the holiday.

I’ve shared a lot of crafts, sensory activities, flag crafts and other activities through the years, but here are some more patriotic craft ideas, coloring pages and more for the holiday or really any time in summer when you need some easy crafts.

This cute bald eagle craft is easy to prep in big quantities if you want to make it with a group, or just make enough for the kids in your household. This project comes from Crafting Jeannie and includes a printable template for all the pieces. You could even just assemble the template and use it as a coloring page if you want.

Confetti poppers are fun for kids who might be scared of sparklers or other fireworks, and they’re pretty easy to make, too. These from Mommy Made That use a cardboard roll as the base, and you might have most of the supplies you need already in the house. (Tip: make your own confetti using a hole punch or different shaped craft punches as you like.)

Make Uncle Sam hats that kids can wear with this printable from Simply Full of Delight. Kids can color in or paint the stripes, or cut strips of construction paper to glue to the hat template for older kids. There’s also a full-color version you can just print, cut, assemble and wear if you want really low-prep!

These color by number worksheets from Leap of Faith Crafting are billed as being for Memorial Day, but you can pull them out for any patriotic holiday. They include a top hat, cupcake, heart and pinwheel and some summery treats, and they are free to download.

All About Baby Blog has some patriotic do a dot printables perfect for coloring with dot markers. They include a flag, stars, fireworks, balloons and more. If you don’t have dot markers you can use regular markers, or paint on a cotton ball or swab.

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Fine Motor Task Cards for Kids

I don’t know why Pinterest just suddenly decided I needed to see all the content about task cards and task boxes for kids, but these ideas are great for the classroom to keep in centers or have on hand for early finishers. You can also use them at home as quiet bags or boxes for kids to use when younger siblings might be sleeping, or in the car for a non-screen activity.

Let’s take a look at some fine motor skill task cards and how you can use them to teach kids skills while they play.

Pre-K Pages has a nice set of playdough task cards you can use in boxes or bags with a little tray (or they can just work on the table if they are sitting at a table). Working with clay or play dough is a great fine motor skill exercise, or you can add these to your playdough center if you have one to give them a little bit of direction while they work.

Teaching Mama has a bunch of great ideas for fine motor task boxes, from practicing working a glue bottle to threading beads, using clothespins or scissors, dropping water, finger painting and more. There’s a free printable that shows all the task options she talks through in the post if you want to make your own little boxes, or just keep these ideas on hand when you’re ready to add some fine motor fun to your days.

One of the ideas she mentions in that post is working with a hole punch, and Early Learning Ideas has a whole bunch (the urge to write “hole bunch” is strong) of ideas for printables that help kids practice hole punching, whether it’s a strip with circles on it for them to punch or pictures that include circles for punching, these ideas make it a little more fun to practice this important skill.

My Happy Place Teaching has a whole post about using fine motor task boxes in kindergarten, and her paid resource includes more than 100 task ideas with printables. But if you don’t need 100 boxes you can still get some good ideas from this post about different tasks to include and why and when you can use them. She also mentions using them in the morning while you’re busy with kids coming in at different times, which is a great idea.

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