Fun Projects for the 4th of July!

Happy 4th of July!

Projects

Hand Print Flag

Paint one hand with red, white and blue paint and press it onto construction paper.  Let dry - add stars

Painted/Glitter Stars

Cut out a star shape and paint with red, white and blue paint - sprinkle with glitter.

 Patriotic Rocks

Paint rocks with red, white and blue paint

 Painted Q-tip Fireworks

Cut Q-tips in half, paint the ends.  When dry, glue onto black paper in the shape of fireworks

4th of July Projects!!

Independence Day Crafts

Handprint Flags

Paint the palm and thumb of one hand blue

Paint the pointer and ring finger white

Paint the middle and pinkie finger red

Press the painted hand onto a blue piece of construction paper (I folded the paper into 4 sections)

Let dry - attach a large craft stick and add star stickers

 

 

Independence Day Paper Lanterns

Cut two strips of blue paper - about 3-4 inches wide

Cut wavy, red strips of paper about 8 inches long

Attach the red strips to the blue strips  - we used tape

Decorate with patriotic Stickers

Connect the two blue strips to make a lantern shape - I used a stapler

Attach a handle with blue or red paper!

 

The Girls!!!

 

 

Craft Stick American Flag

Craft Stick American Flag:  Glue 2 red and 2 natural colored craft sticks to a piece of cardboard.  Cut 2-inch pieces from 3 red craft sticks and 2 natural craft sticks.  Cut 2 1/2-inch sections from 5 blue craft sticks and arrange and glue into an American flag.  Use a paint brush and white paint to add "stars" to the blue craft sticks.  Let dry, and trim off excess cardboard!

Materials Needed:  5 red craft sticks, 4 natural craft sticks, 5 blue craft sticks, paintbrush, white paint, craft glue, cardboard

Flag Day- Stamped and painted American Flag!

Day 1 of our week - Our Themes this week are Oceans, Flag Day and Fathers Day!! I am continuing with our ocean theme, but we are also incorporating a Flag project for Flag Day and we will be doing a Father's Day project for Father's Day this coming weekend.

Ocean Patterns!

Activity 1 - I printed this grid template off of the website http://www.pre-kpage.com/ocean.html This template is for patterning. I started the patterns in each row with ocean themed stickers and Connor and Lauren finished the patterns with the correct stickers. This activity emphasizes patterns.

Ocean counting!

Activity 2 - I printed off a counting grid paper from the website http://www.pre-kpages.com/ocean.html Then I wrote the numbers 1-5 next to each row. Connor and Lauren read each number and placed the appropriate number of stickers in the rows. This activity emphasized number recognition and one-to-one correspondence.

Other activities - I started using the Everything for Early Learning Preschool workbook. I found this workbook at Wal-Mart. It has wonderful activities that deal with letter recognition, counting, comparing, addition, subtraction, shapes, patterns and more. Connor and Lauren have the basic skills to really understand all of the activities in this workbook. Today they did 3 activities out of the workbook. The first one dealt with shapes- circles, the 2nd one with the number 9 and counting and the 3rd one emphasized bigger and smaller, sequencing, cutting and gluing.

Stamped and painted American Flag!

Project- Stamped, Painted American Flag! Materials Needed- white construction paper, blue construction paper, red paint, white paint, small star sponge stamp and glue.
I cut a blue piece of construction paper into 1/4's. Connor and Lauren painted red stripes on the white piece of paper. Then they stamped stars using the sponge star shape onto a 1/4 piece of the blue paper. After the paint dried they glued the blue, star paper onto the top corner of the flag!
Before we started the project we talked about Flag Day and what it meant! They thought it was funny that we gave a flag a special day. Lauren said, "A flag isn't a person!"