Fourth of July Flag Crafts

Looking for some quick crafts and activities for the Fourth of July? These flag crafts are easy and lots of fun for kids in the summer.

This easy handprint American Flag shirt from Down Redbud Drive is perfect to make and wear on the Fourth. I could totally see doing the same thing with a handprint for the maple leaf on a Canadian flag for Canada Day.

Another cute handprint craft makes a cute wall hanging or trivet. This one is from The Soccer Mom Blog.

Or use the handprint to make the whole flag like on this one from In the Playroom. So cute and easy to make with little ones.

Make a flag out of Popsicle sticks for kids to paint with this tutorial from Jinxy Kids.

Crafts on Sea has a couple of fun flag crafts, including a sponge printed flag and a paper plate flag craft.

Add a little STEM fun to your crafting with this fun American flag craft from From Engineer to SAHM, which uses water science in two different ways to make the parts of the flag. And don’t miss this cool optical illusion flag craft from Mommy Evolution. We love a little learning with our summer fun!

Looking for 4th of July decorations? Check these supplies out.

We also have 100’s of 4th of July Patriotic crafts and 4th of July recipes too.

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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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