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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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Books to Get Ready for Back to School

As I write this, back to school time is right around the corner, and if you have kids going to school for the first time or who might need a refresher on what school is like, books can be a big help in calming fears and letting them know what to expect. 

School Days by Fabiola Sepulvelda is a wordless picture book full of photographs of various things that happen during the school day, such as leaving home, getting off the bus, greeting your teacher, raising your hand to talk, circle time, reading, quiet work, lunch, recess, art and music, and greeting your parent at the end of the day. 

This is a nice book to prompt conversations about the way things might look and things that might happen at school, and could also be used in the classroom to talk about routines and what happens each day. It’s meant to be for kids who don’t yet know how to read, but could be used with older kids as well. 

Ready for School by Dona Herweck Rice and illustrated by Amanda Morrow follows a little girl through a day getting ready for school and thinking about all the things that happen at school. It covers things like calendar time, mat time, being read to, math (they’re learning to count to five), recess and art. She’s so excited to go she wakes her mom up and it’s still nighttime.

This one is good for kids who like reminders of how the routine goes (both getting ready for school and being there) and those who might be apprehensive about what’s going to happen or if it will be fun. 

The same author has a series of books that are meant to be for ESL learners but would work for others as well. Welcome to School has photos and single words or short phrases for things you do to get ready for school, different ways you might travel there, greetings, morning meeting activities. people you might see at school (like teacher, student, custodian), places and objects you’ll find around school, things at recess and school rules (like line up and raise hand). 

Your School Day uses longer phrases (“riding in car” instead of just “car,” for example) and older children in the photos. The routine is also for older kids and uses bigger words like announcements and equipment. It also shows photos of different subjects kids might study, different kinds of learning groups and more people and places you’ll find in school. 

A Day at School is kind of in between these two, with older elementary students going through many of the same things. This one doesn’t mention morning meetings but also doesn’t use the level of vocabulary of the book for older kids. Either this one of Welcome to School would be fine to use with young kids who already speak English but might like to see all the things and people they’ll see at school. 

 

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