Stars And Stripes Collage
Added 6-5-98
Original Author Unknown
Need: Blue
construction paper, Red and white construction paper cut into 1"
strips, Silver star stickers, Glue
Directions:
Set out all of the materials and let the kids create.
Stars And Stripes
Sponge Painting Added
6-5-98
Original
Author Unknown
Need: Red and blue
paint, Sponges cut into stars and long strips, White construction
paper
Directions: Let the
children make sponge prints on the white paper with the red and
blue paint.
Red, White, And
Blue Salt Jars Added
6-5-98 Original Author Unknown
Need: Empty baby food
jars with lids, 9 cups rock salt, Red and blue food coloring, ½ cup
rubbing alcohol
Directions:
AN ADULT MUST DO THIS PART
1. To make the colored rock salt: Measure 3 cups of rock
salt to be blue, 3 cups to be white, and 3 cups to be red, and
place each in three separate bowls.
2. Combine ¼ cup of rubbing alcohol with ½ a bottle or more of
red food coloring (you want the colors to be bright). Do the same
for the blue food coloring.
3. Mix the red alcohol mixture into one of the bowls of rock
salt. Mix well and let sit for about 1 minute. Drain the excess
alcohol mixture off of the rock salt. (WARNING:
This will smell pretty yucky!) Spread the colored rock
salt on cookie sheets and set outside in the sun to dry (this
will take only an hour or so). Repeat the same procedure for the blue
food coloring.
4. Do nothing with the remaining rock salt because you want it to
stay white.
ACTIVITY FOR THE CHILDREN
1. Once the different colors of salt are dry, place them on a
table with spoons and baby food jars.
2. Guide the children to spoon the colored rock salt into their
jars.
3. Seal the children's creation with the lid.
Fireworks
Added 6-24-98
Original Author Unknown
Need: Net Scrubbie,
Black Construction paper, Gold (or any color you want) tempera paint,
Paper towel
Directions: Use black construction paper
and make fireworks using net scrubbies that you use washing your pots
and pans. Mix tempera paint in a tray and add paper towels to
make more of a stamp pad. The paper towel should be wet not
soaking. Too much paint and it won't work. Touch the scrubbie to
the paper towel and press on paper. I have gold tempera which
really looks spectacular. Use white and red as well and add glitter
to the paint. It is a great effect on the black paper.
More Fireworks Added
6-24-98 Original
Author Unknown
Need: Red and Blue
paint, White Construction paper, Straws
Directions: For
fireworks one year we put blue and red paint on white paper. Then
the children took a straw and blue the paint blobs around to look
like fireworks. It was simple for the little ones to also do.
Just make sure you poke a little pin prick hole at the top of the
straw so they do not inhale the paint.
4th of July Wand added
7-14-98 Original Author Unknown
Need: newspaper, red,
white and blue streamers, markers or paint, glue stick, star
stickers
Directions: Take a large sheet of
newspaper and fold in half. Start at one corner and roll into a
long stick shape. Tape. Children can color newspaper with
markers/paint, etc. Attach crepe paper streamers or strips of
tissue paper at one end (or anywhere) with a glue stick. Decorate with
foil star stickers. Can be used for a parade, dancing, etc.
Star Crowns
added 7-14-98 Original Author
Unknown
Need: Glue, red paint,
Red, White, and Blue Construction paper, Scissors, and star
stickers.
Directions: Pre cut
stars out of red, white and blue construction paper. Give each
child a long white band (about 1 1/2 to 2 inches wide) of
construction paper long enough to fit around a child's head. Let
each child glue (I colored my white glue with some red paint) as
many paper stars on the band as they want. I also put out some
red, white and blue stickers for the to put on. When dry, fit to
each child's head and staple. The kids just love the star
spangled crown.
Torches
added 5-20-99 Original Author
Unknown
Need: Old Newspaper,
paint, tissue paper
Directions: Use old
newspapers and roll them in a large cone shape. Let children
paint the cones. When dry, stuff with red and yellow tissue
paper. To be the "flame" of the torch. Have the
children make crowns, and then they can be the statue of Liberty.
I often let them parade.
Flags
added 5-20-99 Original Author Unknown
Need: Construction
paper, tissue paper, and glue
Directions: Start with
white construction paper. Children glue on red strips, to make
red and white stripes. Then glue a blue square in the top left
corner. For the stars you can use white tissue paper, crumpled
up, or star stickers.
Bells
added 5-20-99 Original Author Unknown
Need: Paper Cups,
jingle bell, string, and markers
Directions: Use paper
cups and let children decorate them. (have them add a
"Crack", like the Liberty Bell) use string through the
bottom of the cup, and tie on a small 'jingle bell'
Rockets
added 5-20-99 Original Author Unknown
Need: Construction
paper, markers, string
Directions: Make a cone
shape, out of construction paper. Decorate with markers. Cut a
narrow (approx. 2" long) slits on opposite sides of the wide
open end. Use 18" of string, and with the point up, put the
string through the slits, and pull sharply on the ends of relaxed
string (rocket will fly into air)
Wind Socks added
5-20-99 Original Author Unknown
Need: Paper, glue,
(tape, or staples) string, streamers
Directions: Use red,
white or blue construction paper and roll it length wise. Glue,
tape or staple together. Add string as a handle to one end. Add
red, white and blue streamers to the other end.
Red, White, And
Blue Puffy Paint Picture added
5-20-99
Original Author Unknown
Need: Flour, Salt,
Water, Red and blue food coloring, Empty mustard squeeze bottles,
Cardboard
Directions:
1. Mix equal parts of flour, salt, and water to make the puffy
paint.
2. Divide mixture into three different bowls and color one bowl
of mixture blue, one bowl red, and leave the last one white.
3. Fill the mustard bottles with the mixture (one color per
squeeze bottle).
4. Let the children squeeze the different colors onto the cardboard.
5. Allow the children's artwork to dry. When it is dry, the design
will be raised and will sparkle!
Tissue Fireworks
added 5-20-99
Original Author Unknown
Need: Black
construction paper, one sheet per child, White chalk, Glue, White and
colored tissue paper, Scissors
Directions:
1. Cut tissue into 1" squares.
2. Draw fireworks patterns on the black construction paper with
chalk (3 per paper).
3. Give each child one piece of prepared black paper and a
container of 1" tissue paper squares and a container of
white glue with a squeeze top.
4. Instruct the children to use their finger tips and ball up
each square of tissue. Be sure they pick up only one piece at a
time.
5. Instruct the children to place glue dots along one line of a
firework, and to place the balled-up tissue on the glue.
6. Have them complete the task, using any color patterns they
desire.
Glitter Paint Fireworks
Pictures added
5-20-99 Original Author Unknown
Need: matte board or
cardboard, white glue( thinned with water in a cup), paintbrushes,
shakers with large holes, powdered tempera paint, glitter
Directions: Paint the
entire surface of the matte board or cardboard with thinned white
glue. Fill shakers with powdered tempera and glitter. Shake the
paint glitter mixture onto the glue to make "fireworks". Dry
the project for a long time (a couple of days).
Fireworks
added 2-21-99 Original
Author Unknown
Need: Black paper,
glue, glitter
Directions: Make your
own fireworks. We gave each of the children a piece of black
construction paper and had them make designs using white glue
(Elmer's). They then sprinkled glitter over the glue. We used a
variety of colors to give it a firework effect!
4th of July Flyers added
6-11-00 Original Author Unknown
Need: toilet tissue
rolls, construction paper (red, white ,blue), crepe paper (red, white,
blue), star stickers (red, white, blue, gold), glue sticks
Directions: Cut a piece of construction
paper to fit around tissue roll, have the children glue that on. Then
have them put stars one the construction papered tube. Cut crepe paper
about the same length as the tube, maybe a little longer then cut in
half, to make narrow strips, (length wise) and glue them at one end of
the tube on the inside. (looks like a mini windsock). And
you are done, quick and easy and the small children were able to do
this with little help. Then the kids have been throwing them up in the
air and watching the crepe paper streamers flutter in the air, they
think it is cool.
Togetherness Flag
added 6-27-00 Original Author
Unknown
Need: Red, white
and blue paint, Paintbrush, Paint Trays, Sheet of paper 2'x3'
Directions:
1. On the large sheet of paper, draw lines for stripes and paint a
blue square in the upper left corner.
2. Have the children fill in the bottom stripe by dipping their hands
in the red paint and pressing them end to end within the lines of the
stripe. Using the white paint, have them make a white stripe just
above it the same way.
3. Continue until you have all 13 stripes filled with hand prints.
4. Have the children dip their fingertips in paint and make the
"stars" in the blue square.
Torn paper flag added
6-27-00 Original Author Unknown
Need: red, white, and
blue paper, glue
Directions: Give each
child one whole piece of white paper. Then give them scraps of red,
white and blue paper. Show them a flag and discuss the many parts of
the flag. Now using their fingers to rip the paper instead of cutting,
have them create a flag. Be sure to go over the sizes they will need
for the blue box, stripes, and stars.
Star Cookie Cutters added
6-27-00 Original Author Unknown
Need: Star shaped
cookie cutters (all sizes), red and blue paint, paper
Directions: Gather a
few star-shaped cookie cutters and shallow bowls of red and blue
tempera paint. Allow each child to have a turn pressing the cookie
cutters into the paint, then onto a piece of construction paper to
make star shaped prints.
Patriotic Bead
Patterning added
6-27-00 Original Author Unknown
Need: Pipe cleaners,
red, white, and blue beads (the larger the
better, remember bead can be a chocking hazard.)
Directions: Gather several packages of
red, white, and blue beads and pipe cleaners. Make a few example
patterns with the beads on the pipe cleaners. Set the remaining beads
and pipe cleaners on a table and allow the children to copy any of the
patterns on their own pipe cleaners. When they are all finish you can
place the pipe cleaner around the child wrist and twist the ends
together. Now you have a patriotic bracelet.
Uncle Sam Hats
added 6-27-00 Original Author
Unknown
Need: paper, glue,
sentence strip
Directions: Cut top hat
shape out of white, glue two red strips to the front, put small blue
band of construction paper where a hat band would be, and decorate hat
band with white stars. Attach hat to sentence strip and staple shut.
Place on a child's head.
Craft Stick American
flag added
6-27-00 Original Author Unknown
Need: Tongue
depressors, paint, paper, glue, cotton
Directions: Have the
children paint about 8 tongue depressors red. Cut a blue paper square
about 1/4 the size of a sheet of white paper. Glue it in the left hand
corner. When sticks are dry, glue them on the page making a red
stripe, then the white paper, another red and continue on. Have the
children glue cotton balls on the blue part to be stars.
Making Flags
added 6-27-00 Original Author
Unknown
Need: construction
paper, cardboard tube from paper towel roll, glue, scissors, tape
Directions: Cut the shape of a flag from
construction paper. Cut designs from red, white and blue paper. Stars
and stripes can be used for decoration, or anything else the child
wants to create. Glue the designs onto the flag. Use tape to attach
the outer edge of the flag to the cardboard tube. Put on some marching
music and have the kids make a parade waving their flags.
Statue of Liberty
Torches added
6-10-02 Original Author Unknown
Need: newspaper,
paint, red and yellow tissue paper, and glue
Directions: Use old newspapers and roll
them in a large cone shape. Let the children paint the cones. When
dry, stuff with red and yellow tissue paper to be the flame of the
torch.
Statue of Liberty
Crowns added
6-10-02 Original Author
Unknown
Need: construction
paper, collage materials, glue, and tape
Directions: Cut crowns from stiff paper
to fit around the child's head. Let them decorate them and then with
their torches do a parade.
Paper Roll Fire
Cracker added
6-5-05 Original Author Unknown
Need: Toilet Paper
Roll, Paint, Yarn, Paper, Rubber Bands
Directions: Paint the toilet paper. Let
dry. Cut 2 circles out of the any color paper (try to match your
toilet paper roll), about 3 - 4 inches across. Decorate the circles.
Poke a small hole through the center of one of your paper circles and
thread a 6 inch piece of yarn through it. The long end of the yarn
should be hanging on the side of the paper that is decorated. Leave
about 1 inch of yarn on the side of the circle that is not decorated,
and tape it down to hold it in place. Once all the pieces are dry, you
will add attach the circles to the toilet paper using glue.
Allow it time to dry.
