Happy 4Th Of July Flag Arts And Crafts For Toddlers

The Fourth of July is adjacent weekend too since my 2-year-old is currently obsessed amongst the American flag, I sentiment we'd create a few flag crafts too activities this calendar week to become far the spirit. We've shared 10 of our favorite toddler Fourth of July crafts too activities HERE if y'all postulate to a greater extent than ideas.

We had hence much fun making craft stick puppets final calendar week that nosotros sentiment we'd pause out the arts and crafts sticks in 1 trial to a greater extent than too usage them to brand this flag resist arts and crafts for toddlers too preschoolers.

This arts and crafts requires real few materials but is a niggling flake to a greater extent than directed than some of my commons projects. Obviously y'all could simply allow your toddler pattern his ain flag, but since mine was real bent on having an American flag, nosotros tried to brand ours similar to a greater extent than traditional.

Here are the materials needed for this flag craft:

paper record or painter's record (paper record is much thinner)
star stickers
red too bluish point markers
white cardstock
craft stick
tape

To teach started y'all get-go postulate to prep a few things for your toddler. If y'all convey older kids, they tin create this purpose themselves.

To teach started I cutting the record into sparse strips too record them onto the slice of cardstock to block off the bluish purpose of the flag too brand stripes.

Next nosotros grabbed our point markers too my boy covered all of the white on the newspaper inwards blood-red paint.

Immediately afterwards he finished I pulled the newspaper record off the paint. If it sticks for every bit good long too the newspaper gets overly moist from the pigment hence it volition rip every bit it pulls off. Encourage your nipper to paint, but non soak, the newspaper amongst paint. Put an extra newspaper adjacent to them if they actually desire to become to town amongst paint... too hence tin pigment their extra paper.

Next I gave him star stickers too told him to position them inwards the white rectangle. This was a smashing fine motor activity.

We alone had bigger stickers hence our flag won't expect completely official... since nosotros don't convey the right publish of stars too stripes.

Once the stickers were on hence I blocked off the residual of the flag hence that the alone purpose visible was the white rectangle. I in all probability should've covered the stripes a flake better... hence I know that for adjacent fourth dimension :)

I encouraged my niggling guy to pigment all over the stars too inwards the white rectangle until it was completely blue! Since the rectangle was hence pocket-size it was slow to do.

Next nosotros pulled off the star stickers immediately. I pulled a few off too my boy pulled a few off.

We were both pretty excited amongst how good the sticker resist for the stars worked!

Lastly I taped the flag to a arts and crafts stick too allow it dry.

After that at that spot was no putting the flag down! My 2-year-old loves it! He loves wandering around town too hunting for American flags hence he is pretty excited to convey his real ain flag to hold.