Easy Patriotic Flags For Kids To Make

July 2, 2010 by Kristen Stephens Leave a Comment

These flags are really cute and perfect for the young ones on the 4th of July. Who doesn’t love a craft that involves using the glue stick the whole time! Check out A Crafty Escape for her step by step how to.

These sweet little kiddie flags are a wonderfully simple Fourth of July craft for toddlers, preschoolers, and younger elementary children who love any excuse to get busy with paper, glue sticks, and a bit of red, white, and blue creativity. It’s the kind of patriotic kids’ craft that doesn’t need fancy supplies or complicated instructions, which is always a win when you’re planning a classroom activity, homeschool project, summer camp craft, or something easy to keep little hands busy before the fireworks begin.

What I love about this 4th of July flag craft is that it gives children a chance to make something festive and recognisable while still being very achievable for small hands. There’s cutting, sticking, arranging, and plenty of room for wonky stripes and enthusiastic glue application — which, let’s be honest, is usually the best part for them. These handmade flags would be fun to wave at a family barbecue, use as table decorations, or add to a patriotic bulletin board.

If you’re looking for more easy Fourth of July activities for kids, you might also like these kid-friendly 4th of July activities, this roundup of patriotic crafts for kids, or these Fourth of July printable games and worksheets for a low-prep holiday lesson plan. Simple, festive, and glue-stick friendly — this is exactly the sort of project that makes holiday crafting with kids feel fun instead of frantic.

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Printable Letter Books for Preschoolers

I did a post earlier this year with activities and ideas for teaching the alphabet, but a lot or learning letters and recognizing them just has to do with seeing them and working with them a lot.

That means coloring, tracing, identifying things that start with different letters and more.

One way to reinforce the letters is through little activity books like these cute printable alphabet books from Life Over Cs.

These are available for free when you subscribe to her newsletter, and I’d say that’s well worth it if you have a little one (or a group of little ones!) working on the alphabet and letter recognition.

Each mini book includes a collection of things that start with that letter to color, color and read with words that start with the letter, tracing the letter, finding the letter in a grid and other coloring pages with objects that start with that letter.

These little books are super useful reinforcing the different letters and giving kids different activities related to the letters.

If you do a letter of the day or letter of the week you can use a new book for each one, and then keep the copies in your reading center or in a basket where kids can look at them again.

And of course you can add in all the other letter activities you like, go on a scavenger hunt for items that start with that letter, read alphabet books, practice writing letters in rice or with pompoms or playdough or whatever sensory activities you like.

You can grab the free printables when you enter you email address at Life Over Cs, and check out her other great alphabet resources and activities while you are over there.

Do you have favorite activities for teaching letters to kids? I’d love to hear about them!

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