Fourth of July Flag Crafts

Fourth of July flag crafts are such an easy way to bring a little red, white, and blue fun into your summer lesson plans, classroom activities, homeschool table, or holiday weekend crafting. Whether you’re working with preschoolers, elementary-aged kids, or a mixed group of enthusiastic little makers, American flag crafts are always a good starting point because they can be as simple or as detailed as you need them to be.

This roundup includes easy patriotic craft ideas using handprints, popsicle sticks, paper plates, sponge painting, and even a little STEM-inspired water science. They’re perfect for keeping kids busy before the fireworks begin, adding a creative activity to a Fourth of July party, or building a simple lesson around American symbols and Independence Day traditions.

If you’re planning more summer learning fun, you might also like our Fourth of July sensory play ideas, these patriotic crafts for kids, or our big collection of 4th of July patriotic crafts for even more red, white, and blue inspiration.

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.

When my daughter was younger I would spend a lot of time trying to come up with activities she could do in the car on long road trips and things to entertain her when we were waiting at restaurants and things that didn’t involve screens.

But it turns out there are a lot of great activities you can do with just a piece of paper and a pen.

What Do We Do All Day has a great collection of pen and paper games, including some that can be done with just one person, though they’re all more fun if you have at least two.

There are some classics on here like hangman and dots and boxes, but there are also quite a few I hadn’t heard of before.

I don’t want to spoil the whole list for you because you should definitely click over there and look around, but I will share about the one that you see pictured above.

This game is called Bridges, and you start by making the big random shape and the dividing it into a bunch of sections (the post says 30-50 sections is ideal but I think this one is smaller than that).

Each player gets their own color marker and you take turns drawing bridges from one space to another, crossing a third. Once there’s a bridge, no other bridges can start, end or cross in those spaces. Keep going until no more bridges can be built, and the person who makes the last bridge wins.

Check out the post over at What We Do All Day for more great ideas for no or almost-no prep games you can play with your kids or that kids can play together. I’d love to know if you have a favorite paper and pen game, whether it’s on this list or a different one.

[Photo: What We Do All Day]

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