8 Great American Flag Kids Crafts

Old Glory, the Stars and Strips, the American flag has been the inspiration for many kids crafts. Here's a round-up of 8 great American flag crafts for preschoolers and kids.These don't have to be only for Independence Day or Memorial Day, but an anytime patriotic craft

1. 4th of July Handprint Footprint Flag Craft

Random Handprints


2. 4th of July Patriotic Flag Mobile Craft

Crafts for All Seasons

3. 4th of July Popsicle Stick Flag Magnet Craft

A pumpkin and a Princess

4. Easy 4th of July Handprint Flag Craft

Everyday Beautiful

5. 4th of July Pom Pom Flag Craft

Glue Gun Crafts

6. 4th of July Flag and Shaker Craft

Learning Montessori

7. 4th of July Windsock Craft

The Mother Huddle

8. 4th of July Kids Flag Craft


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Olympic Rings Flag Craft

Here's an easy Olympic rings craft in honor of the 2012 London Olympics. All you need is some paper cups and paint.

Materials:

• 5 paper cups
• light blue, black, red, yellow and green paint
• 5 shallow dishes
• white paper

Directions:

1. Teach kids about the Olympic flag, it's colors and meaning. Each ring represents the 5 continents and there is at least one or two colors in each flag of the world.
2. Put each color paint in a shallow dish.
3. Press the mouth of a paper cup and press onto the white paper.
4. Repeat for each ring in the flag.

International Flag Craft

Here's a simple and fun flag craft you can do when learning about other countries or cultures.

Materials:

• flag templates
• card stock
• scissors
• crayons or scrap paper
• glue
• tape
• chopsticks, bamboo skewer, or dowel rod

Directions:

1. Find a lack and white template of the flag of choice on the Internet.
2. Print out template on card stock and cut out.
3. Have kids color the flag correctly or use scrap pieces of colored paper.
4. Tape the flag to a stick or chopstick and wave your flag.





4th of July Patriotic Flag Mobile Craft

This 4th of July patriotic flag mobile craft is a great way to show your spirit. The original version of this craft pictured here was made from soup can lids and wire, but you can easily adapt this idea to a easier and safer paper craft.

Materials:

• soup can
• card stock
• red and blue markers
• white out or white paint pen
• dowel rods
• red and blue beads
• string
• hole punch
• super glue

Directions:

1. Use a soup can to trace 9 circles onto white card stock and cut out.
2. Color the top left quarter of the circle blue. Add red stripes. The first stripe on a flag is red. Add white dots to the blue field for stars with a paint pen or white out. Repeat for all circles.
3. Punch a hole in the top of each flag circle.
4. Cut 2 dowel rods about a foot long and tie together in a cross shape.
5. Add a blue or red bead to the ends with super glue.
6. Cut 4 pieces of string the same length. Cut 4 more strings longer than the first group. Finally cut 1 string the longest.
7. Tie all the strings to the flag circles.
8. Tie the other ends to the dowel cross. Tie the 4 shortest ones on the ends of the dowels, the longer 4 inside those, and the longest one in the middle.
9. Tie a string o top of the flag mobile and hang up.
10. Adjust the strings on the dowel to get a good balance.

Variations:

Actually, since we're using paper, the flags don't need to be circles. You could make rectangles.

You could paste both sides o the card stock with 4th of July wrapping paper and cut out the shapes from that.

  Source: Crafts for all Seasons

4th of July Handprint Footprint Flag Craft

This large 4th of July hand print and footprint flag craft was for the whole class. Mount it on the wall.

Materials:

• large sheet of poster paper
• red and blue paint
• brushes
• dishes.

Directions:

1. Lay the big paper down on the floor. Use a ruler to mark lines with pencil for the blue field and stripes.
2. Have students dip or brush hands with blue paint and press onto the hands the top left corner of the paper for stars. Alternatively, you could paint a blue field, allow to dry and then make white hand prints.
3. Dip or brush students feet with red paint and make foot prints in a line for the stripes. Remember, the top and bottom stripes of an American flag are red.
4. Allow everything to dry and display.



Source: Random Handprints

Easy 4th of July Handprint Flag Craft

This is a very simple 4th of July hand print flag craft. Great for even the youngest students.

Materials:

• blue construction paper
• Popsicle stick(craft stick) or tongue depressor
• red, white and blue paint
• paint brushes
• glue
• red and white ribbon
• foil star stickers

Directions:

1. Cut a rectangle from blue construction paper big enough for the child's hand.
2. Carefully paint the child's right palm blue and the fingers alternating with red and white. Remember, the first stripe on an American flag is red.
3. Press hand onto the blue paper. Allow to dry.
4. Glue the blue paper o a Popsicle stick or tongue depressor for a handle.
5. Glue or tape red and white ribbon to the top.
6. Wave your hand print flag.

Source: Everyday Beautiful

4th of July Pom Pom Flag Craft

This adorable and flexible 4th of July pom pom flag can be used in many ways.

Materials:

• glue gun with glue sticks
• metallic red, white, and blue pom poms(1/4 inch size)
• small clear rhinestone crystals
• 1.5x2 inch piece of blue felt

Directions:

1. Put a dab of glue on each blue pom pom and line them up on the blue felt piece.
2. Apply little dabs of glue to the top of the blue pom poms and put a rhinestone crystal on top to make the stars. About 12 is good or you could go all out and do 50.
3. Use the glue gun to make a 2 lines of 5 red pom poms and 1 line of 5 white pom poms. These will be the lines next to the blue field. Hold each line in place until the glue hardens.
4. Glue together 2 more lines of red and white with 10 pom poms each. Now you have 4 long lines, 2 red, 2 white.
5. Start with the short red line and glue to the right of the blue field. Apply glue along the red line and attach the white line. Continue this process down the flag. A proper American Flag has a red stripe at the top and bottom.

You can do several things with this flag;

• You could glue the whole thing to some cardboard for a display.
• You could attach a dowel and stick in a planter.
• Attach magnets and put on the refrigerator.
• Wear it.
• You could also scale it up and do the same craft with big pom poms.

Source: Glue Gun Crafts

4th of July Flag and Shaker Craft

This simple 4th of July Flag and shaker will be fun during your next Independence Day parade.

4th of July Flag

Materials:

• white construction paper
• red and blue paints
• sponges and rollers
• star stamps
• tape
• drinking straws

Directions:

1. Sponge on a blue field in the top left corner of a sheet of white construction paper.
2. Press star stamps into the field.
3. Roll red paint in wavy lines to make the stripes. Allow to dry.
4. Tape 2 drinking straws to the back near the edge with the blue field. Tape another straw sticking down for a handle.
5. Wave your flag.

4th of July Shaker

Materials:

• red and blue paint
• rollers
• 2 paper plates
• raw beans or seeds
• white crepe paper roll
• glue
• stapler

Directions:

1. Decorate the backs of 2 paper plates with star and stripes.
2. Cut several long strips of white crepe paper and roll red paint for stripes.
3. Glue the crepe paper hanging down to the inside of 1 paper plate.
4. Put some raw beans on the paper plate
5. Sandwich the other paper  plate on top and staple all around to seal.
6. Shake your 4th of July shaker.

Source: Learning Montessori

4th of July Windsock Craft 1

 This 4th of July Windsock craft is simple and easy to make and will look great hanging outside your door on Independence Day.

Materials:

• wooden embroidery hoop
• red, white, and blue crepe paper rolls
• card stock
• small star shape
• pencil
• scissors
• glue
• tape
• yarn or string

Directions:

1. Cut about 8 long lengths each of red and white crepe paper. Cut 8 lengths of blue crepe paper about a third of the length of the others.
2. Trace and cut out stars from card stock and glue about 3 each on the blue crepe paper strips. You could alternate 3 stars on half of the blue strips and 2 stars on the other half.
3. Wrap the ends of the red and white crepe paper over the loop and secure with tape. Alternate the colors. Then tape the blue strips on top of that.
4. Tie a piece of string on either side of the loop and hang on a hook outside. The neighbors will be impressed as they drive by.

 Source: The Mother Huddle

4th of July Popsicle Stick Flag Magnet Craft

This is a great looking 4th of July Popsicle stick flag craft you can use as a refrigerator magnet. Perfect for Independence Day.

Materials:

•  8 Popsicle sticks(craft sticks)
• red, white, and blue paint, brushes
• card stock or thin cardboard(cereal box)
• scissors
• glue
• tape
• small rhinestones, craft jewels, or beads.
• magnet strip

Directions:

1. Fist, cut a rectangle exactly the same size as the craft sticks lined up together.
2. Beforehand, paint 4 Popsicle sticks red, and 4 white. Allow to dry. Or use pre colored craft sticks.
3. Spread glue on the cardboard rectangle and glue on the Popsicle sticks in alternating colors. Allow to dry.
4. Use tape to section off a small rectangle in the upper left corner of the flag. About 4 sticks and half the length is good.
5. Paint the rectangle blue. Allow to dry.
6. Glue on little rhinestones or jewels for stars. There don't have to be 50.
7. Glue a magnet strip to the back and put on the refrigerator.

A correct flag has a red stripe at the top and bottom, but it doesn't have to be perfect.

Source: A Pumpkin and a Princess

4th of July Kids Flag Craft

This simple 4th of July American flag is great for the youngest students for Independence Day.

Materials:

• sheet of red construction paper
• small rectangle of blue construction paper
• white paint
• glue
• foam star stamps
• sponges or fingers

Directions:

1. Precut the blue fields for students or let them do it.
2. Glue the blue field in the upper left corner of the red construction paper.
3. Stamp stars onto the field with white paint.
4. Use sponges or just fingers to paint white stripes on your flag.

Collage Flag Craft

This is a fun collage that's great for Independence Day, Flag Day, or Memorial Day. This can be an individual craft, or if you have a big class, divide into groups of about 4 and make bigger flags.

Materials:

• 1 sheet of blue construction paper with flag outline
• colorful old magazines
• gold tempura paint in shallow dishes
• blunt pencils
• scissors
• glue

Directions:

1. Beforehand, have students bring in a lot of old magazines.
2. Also, Beforehand get an outline of the American flag from a coloring page and copy onto blue construction paper.
3. Have students go through old magazines and tear out pages with lots of red and white. Cut or tear red and white into small pieces.
4. Glue the magazine scraps on to fill in the 7 red and 6 white stripes on the flag.
5. Dip the blunt end of a new pencil in gold paint and stamp 50 stars onto the blue field. Or an old-fashioned flag with 13 stars. If you have small star stamp, that's good, too.

You can take this same concept to make flags of any nation. The Japanese flag would be easy on white paper. I like the Butan flag, it has a dragon on it. You could line the classroom with your international flags. It more work, but much more interesting than just coloring flags.