Fun & Simple Flag Craft

We did a fun and simple 4th of July Craft today that I thought I would share. Since the 4th is on Monday I thought I’d use it as an opportunity to talk about the American Flag. I don’t know why I didn’t think about this a couple weeks ago for Flag Day, but oh well. We discussed what all the symbols and colors on the flag mean and then went about crafting our own paper flag. I thought it would be cool if instead of cutting the strips in a straight line we rip the strips out of the paper. It made a cool effect and the kids had fun trying it out.

What you will need:

• white sheet of card stock paper
• 5 red strips of paper (ripped from a red sheet of construction paper)
• 1 blue rectangle (ripped out of a blue sheet of construction paper)
• glue
• star stickers

Step-by-step guide:

1. Glue red strips to the paper

Put glue on the red strips of paper and stick them down on your white paper spacing them out to make the red/white flag pattern.

2. Trim any excess paper

Our strips were longer than the white paper so after they were glued on we just trimmed the edges to line up with the paper.

3. Glue rectangle on the left corner

Glue your blue rectangle onto the upper left corner of your paper.

Apply your star stickers on your blue rectangle.

All done! 4 easy steps and you’ve created a cute American Flag.